Willi Goetschel

Willi Goetschel (* 1958 in Zurich ) is a Swiss - Canadian literary scholar and professor of philosophy and German studies at the University of Toronto .

Goetschel studied philosophy and German in Switzerland and the USA. At the University of Zurich he acquired in 1982 licentiate in philosophy, he received his doctorate in 1989 in German at the University of Harvard . His research areas include Jewish thought , critical theory as well as enlightenment and idealism in German-speaking countries.

Goetschel is editor of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's nine-volume edition of the Wiener Passagen-Verlag and editor -in- chief of The Germanic Review .

Fonts (selection)

• Kant as a writer . Passagen, Vienna 1990 ISBN 978-3-900767-61-7
• Constituting Critique: Kant's Writing as Critical Practice . Duke University Press, Durham 1994
• Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn , Lessing , and Heine . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2003 ISBN 978-0-299-19084-2
• The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought . Fordham University Press, New York 2012
• Heine and Critical Theory . Bloomsbury Academic, London 2019 ISBN 978-1-3500-8729-3

Individual proof

1. ^ Editorial Board of The German Review [1]

Website

• Literature by and about Willi Goetschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Willi Goetschel on the University of Toronto website