Eckart Förster (philosopher)

Eckart Förster (born January 12, 1952 in Bremen ) currently teaches as a philosophy professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and as an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

He published mainly on Kant and German idealism as well as on Goethe's scientific thinking. His book The 25 Years of Philosophy (2011), in which he traces why Kant saw himself at the beginning of the history of philosophy and 25 years later, Hegel saw it as finished with his work, received a lot of attention . For this book he was awarded the Kuno Fischer Prize of Heidelberg University in 2017 . He also published on Kant's Opus postumum (English edition with commentary 1993), Goethe's philosophy of science, the Pythagorean tradition and Holderlin .

biography

Förster studied from 1971 to 1973 at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt (Philosophicum 1973), from 1973 to 1976 philosophy in Frankfurt and from 1976 at Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1979 and a doctorate in 1982 (Kant and the Problem of Transcendental Arguments) with Peter Strawson . From 1980 to 1982 he was a lecturer at Balliol College in Oxford, from 1982 to 1983 lecturer at Harvard University and from 1983 to 1996 professor at Stanford University (1983 Assistant Professor, 1990 Associate Professor, 1996 Professor), both in the Philosophy Department German studies. In 1996 he became a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Chair II as successor to Dieter Henrich ), which he remained until 2003. He has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2001. Since 2004 he has also been an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

He was visiting professor at Princeton University in 1988/89 , in 1998 at the State University in Porto Alegre in Brazil and in 1999 at Ohio State University (Max Kade visiting professor).

In 1976 he became a Rhodes Scholar. He received the Ernest Walker Prize in Philosophy from Balliol College in 1979 and was a 1987 Fellow of the Stanford Humanity Center. In 1992 he received the Peter and Helen Bing Award for Excellence in Teaching from Stanford University. In 2005 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Since 1998 he has been on the Jacobi Commission and in 2000 in the Schelling Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 2001 to 2012 in the Kant commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

Books:

• The 25 years of philosophy . Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2011, 3rd edition 2018. ISBN 978-3-465-04166-5
  • English edition: The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy , Harvard UP 2012, 2nd edition 2017 (Japanese and Korean editions are also in preparation)
  • An essay volume was published: Transitions - discursive or intuitive? Essays on Eckart Förster's “The 25 Years of Philosophy”, edited by Johannes Haag and Markus Wild. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2013
• Kant's Final Synthesis . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-674-00981-3
• Editor and translator (with Michael Rosen): Kant's Opus Postumum , Cambridge UP 1993
• Editor: Kant's Transcendental Deductions. The Three Critiques and the Opus posthumously , Stanford UP 1998
• Editor with Yitzhak Y. Melamed : Spinoza and German Idealism , Cambridge UP 2012
  • In it by Förster: Goethe's Spinoizism , pp. 85–99

Some essays:

• Is there a gap in Kant's critical system? , Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 25, 1987, pp. 533-555
• Kant's Refutation of Idealism , in: AJ Holland (Ed.), Philosophy, its History and Historiography, Dordrecht: Reidel 1985, pp. 287-303
• Fichte and the atheism dispute of 1799 , in Venanz Schubert (ed.), World without God? Theoretical and practical atheism, St. Ottilien: Eos Verlag 1999, pp. 65–84
• The oldest system program of German idealism ,
• Kant's concept of metaphysics , in: Dieter Henrich, Rolf-P. Horstmann, Metaphysik nach Kant?, Klett-Cotta 1988, pp. 123-136
• Kant's doctrine of self-determination , in Eckart Förster (Ed.), Kant's Transcendental Deductions. The Three Critiques and the Opus postumum, Stanford University Press, 1989, pp. 217-238.
• 'To lend wings to physics once again. 'Hölderlin and the Oldest System-Program of German Idealism, European J. of Philosophy, Volume 3, 1995, pp. 174-198
• What can I hope for? On the problem of the compatibility of theoretical and practical reason In Immanuel Kant's magazine for philosophical research, Volume 46, 1992, pp. 169–189
• The two prefaces of the KrV , in: G. Mohr, M. Willaschek (ed.): Cooperative commentary on Kant's Critique of Reine Vernunft, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1998, pp. 37–55
• There goes the man to whom we owe everything! An investigation into the relationship between Goethe and Fichte , German Journal for Philosophy, Volume 45, 1997, pp. 1–14
• The changes in Kant's doctrine of God , journal for philosophical research, Volume 52, 1998, pp. 341–362
• The meaning of §76, 77 of the Critique of Judgment for the Development of Post-Kantian Philosophy , 2 parts, Journal for Philosophical Research, Volume 56, 2002, pp. 169–190, 322–345
• Hegel's voyages of discovery , in Klaus Vieweg, Wolfgang Welsch (Ed.), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Suhrkamp 2008, pp. 37–57
• Kant and Strawson on aesthetic judgments , in: Jürgen Stolzenberg, Kant in der Gegenwart, De Gruyter 2007, pp. 269–289, (English original in H.-J. Glock, Strawson and Kant, Clarendon Press 2003)
• German Idealism from the US perspective , in: Yearbook of the Japanese Hegel Society, Volume 13, 2007, pp. 115–123
• Goethe as a philosopher , Die Drei, Volume 78, 2008, pp. 9–19
• Goethe and the idea of ​​natural philosophy , in: Jonas Maatsch, Morphology and Modernity. Goethe's vivid thinking in the humanities and natural sciences since 1800, De Gruyter 2014, pp. 43–56

He wrote the articles Jacob Sigismund Beck in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Hölderlin in Metzler Lexikon Religiöser Denker (2000) and Gadamer in the Fontana Biographical Compendium of Modern Thought, as well as contributions to the Kant Lexicon (eds. Georg Mohr, De Gruyter 2015).

He was the editor of essays on Hölderlin by Dieter Henrich (The course of remembrance and other essays on Hölderlin, Stanford UP 1997).

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckart Förster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry of the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, here also a list of his other publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life and career data Kürschner, Deutscher Schehrtenkalender 2009 and Curriculum Vitae at Johns Hopkins University, accessed on May 29, 2019
2. ^ Faculty News - Philosophy - Johns Hopkins University. In: philosophy.jhu.edu. June 30, 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .