Michael Neil Forster (born December 9, 1957) is an American philosopher and the
Alexander von Humboldt Professor
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, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy at
Bonn University
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. Previously he was Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the College at the
University of Chicago
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. Forster is known for his expertise on
hermeneutics
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.
Books
* ''Herder's Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2018)
* ''After Herder'' (Oxford University Press, 2012)
* ''German Philosophy of Language from Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond'' (Oxford University Press, 2011)
* ''After Herder'' (Oxford University Press, 2010)
* ''Kant and Skepticism'' (Princeton University Press, 2008)
* ''Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar'' (Princeton University Press, 2004)
* ''Herder: Philosophical Writings'' (Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002)
* ''Hegel's Idea of a "Phenomenology of Spirit"'' (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
* ''Hegel and Skepticism'' (Harvard University Press, 1989)
References
21st-century American philosophers
Phenomenologists
Continental philosophers
Philosophy academics
Gadamer scholars
Living people
1957 births
University of Chicago faculty
Hermeneutists
Herder scholars
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