Name Rainer Forst | Role Philosopher | |
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Books The Right to Justificati, Toleration in Conflict: Past and, Justification and Critique, Contexts of Justice: Political P, Justice - Democracy and the R Similar People Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Iris Marion Young, Theodor W Adorno, Hans Joas | ||
Rainer forst and adam etinson toleration and democracy mellon sawyer seminar
Rainer Forst (born August 15, 1964, Wiesbaden) is a German philosopher and political theorist, and was named the "most important political philosopher of his generation" in 2012, when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Currently he is Professor of Political Theory at the Department for Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is often identified with the newest generation of scholars associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He received his doctorate under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas in 1993.
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- Rainer forst and adam etinson toleration and democracy mellon sawyer seminar
- Rainer forst philosophie politik und die frage der rechtfertigung
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His main areas of research are political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. His first book in English, Contexts of Justice, incorporated elements of Anglo-American liberal theory and communitarianism with German critical and social theory.