The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor
Eckart Förster on “The History of Philosophy From a Goethean Point of View.” This talk
examines the philosophical problems faced by anyone who wants to give an account of the
history of philosophy and explores the possibility of solving them by applying a Goethean
methodology to the subject.“
Eckart Förster is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, German, and Comparative Thought &
Literature at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at
Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). He has published widely on Kant and German
Idealism, on Goethe’s Philosophy of Science, and on Hölderlin. He is the Eberhard Berent
Goethe Professor at the NYU Department of German for the Fall 2022 semester.

Location & Time

6:00pm - 7:30pm on Monday, November 7, 2022
In-person at Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003