Frederick Charles Beiser[1] (/ˈbaɪzər/; born November 27, 1949) is an American philosopher who is professor emeritus of philosophy at Syracuse University.
[2][3][verification needed] He then studied at the Oriel College of the University of Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1974.
[4] After receiving his DPhil in 1980, Beiser moved to West Germany, where he was a Thyssen Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
[8] In 1987, Beiser released his first book, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (Harvard University Press).
In the book, Beiser sought to reconstruct the background of German idealism through the narration of the story of the Spinoza or Pantheism controversy.