Resources in German Thought

Faculty

• Lanier Anderson (Philosophy)

 
• Dagfinn Føllesdal (Philosophy)

 
• Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (French & Italian; Comparative Literature)

 
• Robert P. Harrison (French & Italian)

 
• David Hills (Philosophy)

 
• Nadeem Hussain (Philosophy)

 
• Richard Rorty (Comparative Literature; Philosophy)

Richard Rorty taught philosophy for three years at Wellesley and for twenty-one years at Princeton. In 1982 he became University Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and became emeritus at that institution in 1998. In the same year he began a five-year term as Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford. His books include: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony and Solidarity; Objectivity, Relativism and Truth; Essays on Honor of Heidegger and Others; Philosophy and Social Hope.
 
• Tamar Schapiro (Philosophy)

 
• Thomas Sheehan (Religious Studies)

 
• Brent William Sockness (Religious Studies)

Brent W. Sockness, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Chicago), specializes in modern Christian thought and ethics, with particular interest in nineteenth-century German Protestant theology. He is the author of Against False Apologetics: Ernst Troeltsch and Wilhelm Herrmann in Conflict (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck,1998) and is currently writing a book on the moral philosophy of Friedrich Schleiermacher. In 1999 he held a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.  He teaches surveys, figures, movements, and topics in Western European religious thought since the Reformation.
 
• Arthur C.T. Strum (German Studies)

 
• Allen Wood (Philosophy)

Allen W. Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is author of Kant’s Moral Religion (1970), Kant’s Rational Theology (1978), Karl Marx (1981), Hegel’s Ethical Thought (1990) and Kant’s Ethical Thought (1999), as well as numerous articles on moral and social philosophy and the history of modern philosophy, including several on J.G. Fichte. He edited the most recent translation of Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991) and is a general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, in which series he has also collaborated in editing and translating several volumes. He has regularly taught courses on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre.

Programs

• Stanford-In-Berlin : Every year the Berlin Study Center gives approximately 75 Stanford students of all majors the opportunity to investigate questions of German culture, history, politics and economics in the context of a new Europe.