A Spirit of Trust: Magnanimity and Agency in Hegel’s Phenomenology

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of thirteen books, including Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment. His most recent book, A Spirit of Trust, on Hegel’s Phenomenology, is forthcoming. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy as well as a recipient of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award, and the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Brandom has delivered the John Locke lectures Lectures at Oxford (published as Between Saying and Doing), the Hempel lectures at Princeton, the Townsend and Howison lectures at Berkeley, and the Woodbridge lectures at Columbia. He has held fellowships at All Souls College Oxford and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and was Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig.