Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Faculty 03

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He is Co-Director of the Research Cluster on the ‘Formation of Normative Orders,’ of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’ and Member of the Directorate of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Bad Homburg. He has taught at the Free University Berlin, the New School for Social Research in New York and Dartmouth College. His work in moral and political philosophy focuses on questions of justification, justice and toleration; his major publications are Contexts of Justice (Suhrkamp 1994, Univ. of California Press 2002), Toleration in Conflict (Suhrkamp 2003, Cambridge UP 2013), The Right to Justification (Suhrkamp 2007, Columbia UP 2012), Justification and Critique (Suhrkamp 2011, Polity Press, 2013). In 2012, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Price of the German Research Foundation, the highest honor awarded to German researchers.