Notes on Contributors
Jiří Chotaš
is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His interests include political philosophy, certain aspects of law (especially human rights, natural law, and international law), theory of knowledge and metaphysics, and theory of higher education. He has published numerous articles on Hegel, Kant, Humboldt, Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes and edited Krankheit des Zeitalters oder heilsame Provokation? (2016, with Martin Bondeli and Klaus Vieweg) and Metaphysik und Kritik (2010, with Jindřich Karásek and Jürgen Stolzenberg).
Paul Cobben
is Professor Emeritus at Tilburg University. He now teaches at the University of Amsterdam and is visiting researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His publications focus mainly on practical philosophy combining a systematic and historical approach. Among his books are Value in Capitalist Society. Rethinking Marx’s Criticism of Capitalism, Boston/Leiden: Brill (2015), The Paradigm of Recognition: Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death, Boston/Leiden: Brill (2012), The Nature of the Self. Recognition in the Form of Right and Morality. Berlin: De Gruyter (2009).
Christian Krijnen
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Economics and Management & Organization. In his numerous monographs and articles, including Nachmetaphysischer Sinn (2001), Philosophie als System (2008), Recognition—German Idealism as an Ongoing Challenge (2014), The Very Idea of Organization (2015), and Metaphysics of Freedom? (2018), Kant, Hegel, neo-Kantianism and contemporary transcendental philosophy play a major role.
Tereza Matějčková
teaches philosophy and religious studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion. She is the author of the monograph Gibt es eine Welt in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes? (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, and Prague: oikoymenh, 2018). She has also authored numerous articles, among others, in Idealistic Studies, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie and The European Legacy.
Olga Navrátilová
teaches philosophy at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague. She specializes in the philosophy of German Enlightenment and German classical philosophy and has published a book about the relation of the state and religion in Hegel’s philosophy Stát a náboženství v Hegelově filosofii [The State and Religion in Hegel’s Philosophy], (Prague: oikoymenh, 2015).
Stascha Rohmer
is a German Philosopher and Mercator-Fellow at the Catholic Faculty of the Ruhr-University of Bochum. His main research topics are Metaphysics, Anthropology, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Law. Most impotant publications: Whiteheads Synthese von Kreativität und Rationalität (2000), Liebe—Zukunft einer Emotion (2008), Die Idee des Lebens (2017).
Alberto L. Siani
is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge of Università di Pisa. He has done research mostly on the aesthetics and philosophy of Hegel and German Idealism and its relevance for the self-understanding of the modern Western world. Besides, he has research interests in contemporary political philosophy. Among his recent publications are the book Morte dell’arte, libertà del soggetto. Attualità di Hegel (Pisa: ets, 2017) and the edited volume Women Philosophers on Autonomy. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (with S. Bergès, New York: Routledge, 2018).
Klaus Vieweg
is Professor for Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His main areas of research include German Idealism, Hegel, Practical Philosophy, Skepticism. Fellowships/Guest Professor: Pisa, Seattle, Bochum, Erlangen, Prague, Vienna, Siena, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Rom. He is the author of a new Hegel-biography Hegel. Der Philosoph der Freiheit, München: C. H. Beck, 2019; Das Denken der Freiheit. Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, München: Fink, 2012; Philosophie des Remis, München: Fink, 1999. He is editor of numerous volumes, among others, Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes (edited by Klaus Vieweg and Wolfgang Welsch), Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2008; Skepsis und Freiheit, München: Fink, 2008.
W. Clark Wolf
received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Marquette University in 2019. His areas of research include German Idealism and the philosophy of language. Recent publications include “Rethinking Hegel’s Conceptual Realism” (The Review of Metaphysics) and “The Myth of the Taken: Why Hegel Is Not a Conceptualist” (International Journal of Philosophical Studies).
Benno Zabel
Professor für Strafrecht und Rechtsphilosophie at Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; previously studied legal science and general and comparative literature in Berlin and Leipzig; numerous publications in the field of political and legal philosophy and in penal theory.
Bart Zantvoort
is Lecturer of Philosophy at Leiden University. His research focuses on the relation between social change and resistance to change in individuals, institutions and social structures. He edited Hegel and Resistance (with Rebecca Comay) and has published articles on Hegel, political inertia, Critical Theory and on Quentin Meillassoux.