Rainer Forst

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Rainer Forst (2014)

Rainer Forst (born August 15, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) is a German political scientist and philosopher. He is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Institute for Political Science (Faculty of Social Sciences) and at the Institute for Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His main research interests are political theory, practical philosophy and critical theory .

Life

Rainer Forst studied philosophy, political science and American studies in Frankfurt am Main as well as in New York and at Harvard University . It was founded in 1993 with a dissertation on theories of political and social justice when Jurgen Habermas doctorate . In 2003, Rainer Forst completed his habilitation with Axel Honneth with his book Tolerance in Conflict and thus acquired the license to teach philosophy.

Before receiving his doctorate in 1993, he worked as a research assistant on a research project on legal theory in Frankfurt , led by Jürgen Habermas . He then worked as a research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin , and from 1996–2002 at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main (both as assistant to Axel Honneth). In 1995/96 and 1999 he was also a visiting professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. His habilitation took place in 2003 and in the same year he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. In 2004 he accepted a professorship for political theory at the University of Frankfurt. In the 2005/06 academic year he held the Theodor Heuss Professorship at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2007 he turned down an offer from the University of Chicago and became, alongside Klaus Günther , spokesman for the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” . Since 2009 he has also been the deputy spokesman for the “Justitia Amplificata” research group and since 2012 he has headed the “Transnational Justice” research group funded by the Leibniz Prize.

He has received a number of invitations to guest professorships. a. at Harvard University (philosophy, unperceived), at Dartmouth College (Harris German-Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor in Philosophy, 2009), Boston College (Gadamer Professorship in Philosophy, unperceived) and as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Rice University in Houston (2015) and the University of Washington in Seattle (2015). In 2013 he was Senior Emile Noël Fellow at New York University and in 2019 Thomas E. Sunderland Faculty Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan . Since 2018 he has also been a research professor at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin .

Forst was co-editor of Ethics , the most important international journal in the field of practical philosophy , from 2010 to 2018 . In addition, he is editor of the series “Theory and Society” and “Normative Orders” at Campus Verlag and is involved in various functions in 13 other international journals.

Rainer Forst deals intensively with basic questions of political philosophy, in particular with the terms justice , democracy and tolerance . He is considered an important representative of the so-called "third generation" of the Frankfurt School .

His work is widely received internationally, including a. in journal symposia ( Philosophy and Social Criticism , Political Theory , Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy and Journal of Political Power ) and in the meanwhile five English-language anthologies with reviews to which he (as well as to the symposia) wrote responses: Rainer Forst, Justice, Democracy and Justification. Rainer Forst in Dialogue ; Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta (Eds.), Justification and Emancipation. The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst ; Ester Herlin-Karnell and Matthias Klatt (Eds.), Constitutionalism Justified. Rainer Forst in Discourse ; Rainer Forst, Toleration, power and the right to justification. Rainer Forst in Dialogue ; and Mark Haugaard and Matthias Kettner (Eds.), Theorising Noumenal Power. Rainer Forst and his Critics.

He is also active as a political commentator.

Awards

Forst was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for 2012. In 2014 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , in 2020 he was elected to the British Academy as an external member .

Fonts (selection)

Primary texts

  • Contexts of Justice. Political philosophy beyond liberalism and communitarianism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, 1996 and 2004, ISBN 978-3-518-28852-8 . (English translation (by John MM Farrell): Contexts of Justice. Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism. University of California Press, Berkley / Los Angeles 2002. - Portuguese translation (by Denilson Luís Werle): Contextos da justiça. Filosofia política para além de liberalismo e comunitarismo. Boitempo Verlag, São Paulo 2010. - Chinese translation in preparation for Chongqing Publishers)
  • Tolerance. Philosophical foundations and social practice of a controversial virtue. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2000, (Ed.), ISBN 978-3593364056
  • Tolerance in conflict. History, content and present of a controversial term. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, 5th edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-29282-2 . (English translation (by Ciaran Cronin): Toleration in Conflict. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013. Translations into Spanish (Paideia) and Chinese (Chongqing Publishers) in preparation)
  • The right to justification. Elements of a constructivist theory of justice. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2007, 2nd edition 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-29362-1 (portrait) . (Swedish translation by (Svenja Hums): Ratten till rättfärdigande , Daidalos Verlag, Göteborg: 2007. - English translation (by Jeff Flynn): The Right to Justification. Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice , Columbia University Press, New York 2012. - Chinese translation in preparation for Chongqing Publishers)
  • Criticism of the relationships of justification . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29562-5 . (English translation (by Ciaran Cronin): Justification and Critique.Towards a Critical Theory of Politics , Polity Press, Cambridge 2013. - Italian translation (by Enrico Zoffoli): Critica dei rapporti di giustificazione , Trauben, Turin 2013. - Spanish translation ( by Graciela Calderón): Justificación y crítica, Buenos Aires: Katz Editores, Buenos Aires 2015. - Portuguese translation (by Denilson Werle): Justificação e critica , Sao Paulo: editora unesp, 2018)
  • with Klaus Günther (ed.): The development of normative orders. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39276-9 , (Normative Orders, Volume 1)
  • with Wendy Brown : The Power of Tolerance. Columbia University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 9780231170192
  • Normativity and Power. For the analysis of social systems of justification . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-29732-2 . (English translation (by Ciaran Cronin): Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017)

Secondary texts

  • Mattias Iser: outrage and progress. Foundations of a critical theory of society. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2008 (Theory and Society, Vol. 64)
  • Review Symposium on The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst, Political Theory 43 (6), 2015 (with contributions by S. Benhabib , J. Flynn and M. Fritsch as well as a replica)
  • Special Section on Rainer Forst, Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3), 2015 (with contributions by S. Chambers, S. White and L. Ypi as well as a replica)
  • Bertjan Wolthuis, Elaine Mak and Lisette ten Haaf (eds.): 'Rainer Forst: The Justification of Basic Rights.' Review Symposium, in Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 45 (3), 2016 (with contributions by M. Düwell, S. Rummens, L. Valentini and G. Newey and a replica)
  • Mark Haugaard (Ed.): Symposium on Rainer Forst's Theory of Noumenal Power, in Journal of Political Power 11 (3), 2018 (with contributions by A. Azmanova, P. Gilabert, M. Haugaard, CR Hayward, M. Kettner, S. Lukes , and S. Susen and a replica)
  • Rainer Forst: Justice, Democracy and Justification. Rainer Forst in dialogue. Bloomsbury Academic, London 2014 (volume with an article, contributions by A. Sangiovanni, A. Allen, K. Olson, AS Laden, E. Erman and S. Caney and a replica), ISBN 9781780939995
  • Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta (Eds.): Justification and Emancipation. The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst. Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania 2019 (volume with an article, contributions by A. Allen, J. Christman, M. Iser, C. Lu, JP McCormick, E. Mendieta, SC Miller and M. Yates and a replica), ISBN 978-0271084787
  • Ester Herlin-Karnell and Matthias Klatt (eds.): Constitutionalism Justified. Rainer Forst in Discourse. Oxford University Press, New York 2019 (with contributions by A. Ripstein, C. Corradetti, A. Sangiovanni, C. Hiebaum, B. Schlink, S. Bajaj and E. Rossi, L. McNay, M. Klatt, C. Daly , A. Harel, AF Rostøll and E. Herlin-Karnell and a replica), ISBN 9780190889050
  • Rainer Forst: Toleration, power and the right to justification. Rainer Forst in dialogue . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2020 (volume with an article, contributions by TM Bejan, C. Kukathas, J. Horton, D. Weinstock, MS Williams, P. Markell and D. Owen and a replica), ISBN 978-1526116321
  • Mark Haugaard and Matthias Kettner (eds.): Theorising Noumenal Power. Rainer Forst and his Critics . Routledge, London 2020 (with contributions by S. Susen, S. Lukes, CR Hayward, A. Azmanova, P. Gilabert, M. Haugaard and M. Kettner and a replica), ISBN 9780367863128

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 'Chronology of the Heuss Chair at the New School for Social Research.' In: Social Research: An International Quarterly , 81 (3), 2014, xxvi-xxviii.
  2. ^ Joel Anderson: The 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School
  3. ↑ Can the left still fight? In: Die Zeit , No. 20/2016, May 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ In the judgment of Jürgen Habermas, this book is one of the most important works since 1950 [1] .
personal data
SURNAME Forst, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden