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Interview

Robert Stern

talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.

Robert Stern FBA (1962-2024) was a British philosopher who served as a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He sadly passed away from brain cancer on 21 August 2024 at the age of 62. We publish this interview as a tribute to his work, especially in the field of German philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Professor Stern, in your opinion, what is the need to study the philosophy of German idealism in the modern world? Can this philosophy have a lesson for us?

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