Rainer Forst

Rainer Forst ( born August 15, 1964 in Wiesbaden) is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Institute for Political Science ( Faculty of Social Sciences ) and the Institute of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His research focuses on political theory and practical philosophy. He is considered one of the representatives of the youngest, who referred to "third generation of the Frankfurt School ."

Education

Rainer Forst studied philosophy, political science and American studies in Frankfurt and New York and at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in 1993 with Jürgen Habermas. His doctoral thesis deals with theories of political and social justice. In 2003, he earned with his book "Tolerance in Conflict" in philosophy teaching qualification at universities.

Professional career and research focus

Prior to his graduation in 1993 he worked as a research assistant on a run by Jürgen Habermas research project on legal theory in Frankfurt. He then worked as a research assistant at the Otto -Suhr- Institute for Political Science, worked FU Berlin, 1996-2002 at the Institute of Philosophy of the University in Frankfurt am Main (each as an assistant to Axel Honneth ). In addition he received in the years 1995/96 and 1999 Visiting Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. His habilitation took place in 2003 and the same year he received a Heisenberg fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2004 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Political Theory at the University of Frankfurt. In the academic year 2005/ 06 he had taken over the Theodor Heuss Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2007, he refused a professorship at the University of Chicago and was, next to Klaus Günther, spokesman for the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders". Since 2009 he has also been Vice Chairman of the College research group " Justitia Amplificata ". He was invited as a guest professor of philosophy at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. He is the editor of the series "Theory and Society" and " Normative Orders" ( Oxford University Press ), and is Associate Editor of the journal "Ethics " and in various capacities in eleven other international journals involved.

Forestry received a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft awarded for 2012.

Intensive Rainer Forst is concerned with fundamental questions of political philosophy, in particular the concepts of justice, democracy and tolerance.

Works

• Contexts of justice. Political philosophy beyond liberalism and communitarianism. . Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994, 1996 and 2004 ( English translation by John MM Farrell: Contexts of Justice Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 2002 - Portuguese translation of Denilson Luís Werle: .. . Contexts as justiça. Filosofia política para além de liberalismo e comunitarismo. Boitempo Verlag, São Paulo, 2010. )
• Tolerance. Philosophical Foundations and social practice of a controversial virtue. Campus Verlag, 2000, ( ed.).
• Tolerance in the conflict. History, content and the presence of a disputed term. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003. (Translations into English ( Cambridge University Press), Spanish ( paideia ) and Arab ( Maraya publisher) in prep )
• The right to justification. Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29362-1 ( Portrait ), ( translation into Swedish: Daidalos, released in 2007 as " Rätten til rättfärdigande ", translated into English (Columbia University Press) in preparation. )
• Critique of the justification conditions. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29562-5.
• Klaus Günther ( ed. ): The Formation of Normative Orders. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39276-9, ( Normative Orders, Volume 1 )

• The righteous and the evil. In: the daily newspaper. 7 October 2009.