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Rainer Forst
Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
(2005-6).
PhD 1993, Johann Wolfgang-Goethe Universität (Frankfurt).

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of Contexts of Justice. Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism (1994, 2002), Toleranz im Konflikt. Geschichte, Gehalt und Gegenwart eines umstrittenen Begriffs (2003, engl. tr. in prep.), Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung. Elemente einer konstruktivistischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit (forthcoming).

Teaching:
During this academic year, Rainer Forst will be teaching the following graduate-level courses:

GPHI 6060/
GPOL 5012 		Toleration-Past and Present
(Fall 2005)
GPHI 6068/
GPOL 5014		 Political and Social Justice
(Spring 2006)
GPHI 6571/
GPOL 6314 		Transnational Justice
(Fall 2005)
GPHI 6577/
GPOL 6380 		Theories of the Political
(Spring 2006)

 
   
   
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