Michael N. Forster
Michael Neil Forster is a British-American philosopher and the Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy at Bonn University, where he has taught since 2013. He is an expert on 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, especially Herder and Hegel.
Education and career
Forster earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1987, where he worked with Raymond Geuss and Michael Frede. He became Assistant Professor of in Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago, rising to the rank of Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor before moving to Bonn. He remains a visiting professor at Chicago.Books
Herder's Philosophy German Philosophy of Language from Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond After Herder Kant and Skepticism Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar Herder: Philosophical Writings Hegel's Idea of a "Phenomenology of Spirit"- ''Hegel and Skepticism''