Eckart Förster

He has published primarily on Kant and German Idealism as well as on Goethe's thought on natural science (naturwissenschaft).

[3] He has also published on Kant's Opus postumum (English edition with commentary 1993), Goethe's philosophy of science, the Pythagorean tradition and Hölderlin.

In 1996, he became a full professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Chair II as successor to Dieter Henrich), which he remained until 2003.

He received the Ernest Walker Prize in Philosophy from Balliol College in 1979 and was a Fellow of the Stanford Humanity Center in 1987.

Books: Essays: He is the author of the articles Jacob Sigismund Beck in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Hölderlin in Metzler Lexikon Religiöser Denker (2000) and Gadamer in the Fontana Biographical Compendium of Modern Thought as well as contributions to the Kant-Lexikon (ed.