Greg Moore
Associate Professor, History Department Graduate Director History, Philosophy- Education
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2000
- Biography
Greg Moore is an intellectual historian with a particular interest in Germany since the Enlightenment. He is the author of Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and the translator and editor of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Selected Writings on Aesthetics(Princeton University Press, 2006) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
He is currently preparing a translation of Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Mankind and a monograph on the philosophical reception of Darwinism in Germany.
He teaches classes on the European intellectual history, the history of capitalism, the philosophy of history, and the history of madness.
He would welcome graduate students working on German history, European cultural and intellectual history, Anglo-German relations, and the history of biology.