Peter Fuss | |
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Born | 1932 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) |
Thesis | The Structure of Royce's Ethical Thought (1962) |
Academic work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School or tradition | German Idealism |
Institutions | University of Missouri in St. Louis, University of California in Riverside |
Peter Fuss (born 1932 in Berlin) is an American philosopher. In 1939,he emigrated to the United States with his parents. From 1969 until his retirement,he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. [1] [2]
Peter Fuss was born in Berlin in 1932;his parents were able to emigrate to the USA with him just in time in 1939. He initially grew up in New York,graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in,and then taught as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of California in Riverside from 1961 to 1969 and was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis from 1969 until his retirement. In his philosophical work,Peter Fuss draws on the traditions of classical German philosophy and critical theory,but combines them with American traditions of political and speculative thought. He is one of the leading interpreters of German Idealism - especially Hegel - in the United States. In a long-term research project,Peter Fuss provided a new,philosophically sound translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit into English. In addition to many other guest invitations,he accepted the Franz Rosenzweig Visiting Professorship at the University of Kassel in 1987.