Hans-Herbert Kögler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville and regular visiting professor at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria. Dr. Phil. Goethe -University of Frankfurt, graduate work at Northwestern, New School, Berkeley. Former Department Chair and coordinator of Graduate Program. Major publications include The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault (MIT 1999/in German Metzler 1992/2016); Michel Foucault (Metzler 2004/2018); Kultura, kritika, dialogue (Prague Academy 2006); Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences (co-editor, Westview Press 2000; 2018); Religion in the Public Sphere (Prague Academy 2016, co-authors Habermas, Taylor, Ferrara); Enigma Agency (co-editor, Transcript 2019), ‘Reconceiving the Post Secular Public Sphere’ (editor, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 2020). Numerous essays in the philosophy of social sciences, critical theory, social and political philosophy, hermeneutic philosophy of language. An Anthology titled Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury 2022) unites leading theorists in reconstructing and advancing ideas of his approach. Lead essays in special issues: ‘New Directions in the Sociology of Knowledge’ (Social Epistemology 1997) and the Ukraine War (European Journal of Social Theory 2023). Works translated into eight languages. Current research foci include religion and democracy, genealogical and global ethics, normativity in social-scientific interpretation.
