Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is a professor of political theory in the Government Department and has worked on a wide variety of topics in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. He is particularly interested in 19th and 20th century European philosophy and in contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy.

His most recent books are Dignity: its History and Meaning (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel and the Passage from Heaven to History (Harvard University Press, 2022).

He studied PPE as an undergraduate in Oxford (1970-74) before studying in Frankfurt and returning to complete his doctorate under Charles Taylor at Oxford (1980). Professor Rosen has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and University College London before becoming Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford (1990). He moved to Harvard in 2006. He is an Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin.

Professor Rosen has been a Faculty Associate since 2015.