Eckart Förster

Eckart Förster (born January 12, 1952, in Bremen) is a German philosopher and university lecturer. He taught as a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and as an honorary professor at Humboldt University in Berlin until becoming emeritus on January 1, 2021.

He has published primarily on Kant and German Idealism as well as on Goethe's thought on natural science (Naturwissenschaft). His book 25 Years of Philosophy (2011), in which he traces why Kant saw himself at the beginning of the history of philosophy and why Hegel considered it to be finished with his work 25 years later, received much attention. He was awarded the Kuno Fischer Prize of the University of Heidelberg for this book in 2017. He has also published on Kant's Opus postumum (English edition with commentary 1993), Goethe's philosophy of science, the Pythagorean tradition and Hölderlin.