Christian "Alex" Jensen

I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Columbia University. My primary research interests lie in the history of 19th-century social, political, and economic thought, especially the works of G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx. My dissertation project concerns the distinction between 'appearance' (Erscheinung) and 'illusion' (Schein) in the German post-Kantian tradition and the way that distinction has been leveraged -- first by Hegel, then by Marx -- to conceptualize the constitutive relation between social illusion and unfreedom, or, in a more contemporary register, between 'ideology' and 'domination'. Before studying at Columbia, I completed a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.