Terry Pinkard


Terry P. Pinkard is an American philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focus on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to the present. In addition to his own thought, Pinkard is a "noted Hegel scholar" whose translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is "accomplished" and "admirably clear."

Education and career

Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University with the dissertation, The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl. He taught at Georgetown University from 1975 to 2000, at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.

Selected publications

  • Translations

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