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Dr. Roey Reichert

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Studium der Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft an der Hebrew University  of Jerusalem; 2013 M.A. Political Science magna cum laude an der Hebrew  University of Jerusalem; 2019 M.A. Political Science an der University  of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); 2022 Promotion an der UCLA mit einer  Arbeit über "Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the German  Enlightenment: The Anthropological Foundations of Immanuel Kant's  Political Thought"; seit 2022 Assoziiertes Mitglied des IZEA; 2023/24  Postdoctoral Research Fellow am Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel  Aviv University; 2024/25 Fellow-in-Residence am Edmond & Lily Safra  Center for Ethics, Harvard University und Malka and Simcha Pratt  Research Fellow an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem; seit 2025  Post-Doc Fellow der Minerva Stiftung an der Martin-Luther-Universität  Halle-Wittenberg.

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen:

"Kant's Anthropological Time: The Aeonic View of the Human ‎Species and the Très Longue Durée of Enlightenment", Kant's Project of Enlightenment: Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress (Forthcoming, 2027)

"Immanuel Kant's  Anthropology and Ernest Gellner's Critique of the Modern Social  Sciences", Philosophy of the Social Sciences 55, no. 4 (2025)

"Herder and the Limits of Einfühlung", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31:2 (2023)

Forschungsprojekt (Buchprojekt):

Nationalism and  Cosmopolitanism in the German Enlightenment: The Anthropological  Foundations of Kant, Herder, and Forster's Political Thought

At a time when  nationalism and cosmopolitanism seem locked in irreconcilable conflict  across the globe, the project traces one crucial intellectual origin of  this debate to the German Enlightenment. By examining the political  theories of Kant, Herder, and Georg Forster, Roey Reichert explores how  their different conceptions of human nature—their philosophical  anthropologies—led to strikingly different approaches to how universal  values and particular identities might be mediated. Rather than treating  nationalism and cosmopolitanism as mutually exclusive worldviews, as is  common today, these Enlightenment thinkers developed nuanced conceptual  frameworks for understanding the relationship between the two. This  historical analysis offers fresh insights into one of our era's most  pressing political questions and suggests that the current polarization  may not be as inevitable as it appears.

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