Michael Rosen

Aufenthalt

Juli 2015

Forschungsthema

»Geschichte und Freiheit im Deutschen Idealismus«

Projektbeschreibung

German Idealism coincides with a radical step in secularization. It took place at a time when belief in personal immortality was receding. As it did so, it left behind a stark question: how were human beings to reconcile themselves with the fact of their own mortality? In German Idealism we find one very important answer to that question being prepared: human beings can see themselves as part of a wider historical process whose value will justify their own existence even if they themselves are no longer alive. My book traces the way in which this idea is pre-figured in Kant’s conception of history and freedom, and the transformation that took place thereafter.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

• Dignity: its History and Meaning, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2012.
• The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, hg. mit Brian Leiter, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007.
• Political Thought: an Oxford Reader, hg. mit Jonathan Wolff, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999.
• On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology, Cambridge: Polity Press and Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press 1996.
• The Need for Interpretation: Contemporary Conceptions of the Philosopher's Task, hg. mit Sollace Mitchell, London: Athlone Press 1983.
• Immanuel Kant: Opus Postumum, übersetzt mit Eckart Förster, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993.
• Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982.