Günter Zöller

Günter Zöller (b. 1954) is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at the University of Munich. He studied Philosophy, Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature and Art History in Germany (University of Bonn), France (École normale supérieure, Paris) and the U.S.A. (Brown University, Providence, R.I.). He received his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Bonn and has held fellowships from the German National Research Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C, the Canadian Research Council and the Australian Research Council. He has held research appointments at Harvard University, Queen’s College, Oxford, and the University of Tübingen. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Seoul National University, Emory University, McGill University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Bologna, Venice International University and Huanzhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, P. R. China). He has been a main editor of the Collected Works of J. G. Fichte, published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and has served on the Fichte Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Kant Commission of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He is or has been an editor of three academic book series (Europaea Memoria, Spekulation und Erfahrung, Studien zur Phänomenologie und Praktischen Philosophie). His main areas of teaching and research are Kant, German idealism and political philosophy, in which he has authored, edited and coedited 36 books as well as authored 410 articles, review essays and entries in reference works published in 18 languages worldwide. He has given over 400 talks and lectures at universities, conferences and workshop in 30 countries worldwide. Recent book publications include The State as Means to an End: Fichte on Freedom, Right and Law (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011);  Res Publica: Plato’s “Republic” in Classical  German Philosophy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2015 and Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2015), Reading Fichte (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2013; Japanese translation 2014, Spanish translation 2015, Italian translation 2018, Chinese translation 2019), The Cambridge Companion to Fichte, coedited with David James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), Philosophy of the 19tCentury: From Kant to Nietzsche (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2018) and Hegel‘s Philosophy: An Introduction (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2020; Spanish translation in preparation).