Jacqueline Mariña

Jacqueline Mariña is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and works primarily in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of religion, with particular emphasis on Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Her most recent book, Kant’s Metaphysics of the Will: Freedom, Reason and the Moral Law, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2025. An edited collection of essays, Schleiermacher and Democracy: Individuality, Power, and the Rule of Law in Political Theology and Philosophy, is currently in press with Walter de Gruyter and forthcoming in 2027. Her other books include Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Her papers have appeared in journals such as Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Religion, and Faith and Philosophy. Her paper “Who Is an End in Themselves? Kant, Power, and the Problem of the Isms” is forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

 

Her current research focuses on the idea of the self in Kant’s critical philosophy, with special attention to the first Critique, and she is currently editing a collection of essays on Kant’s theodicy. She has also contributed essays to numerous edited collections and serves on the board of Kant-Studien.