Sebastian Rödl

Sebastian Rödl was born in 1967, studied philosophy, musicology, German philology, and history at Goethe University Frankfurt and at the FU Berlin. After completing his PhD in 1997 with the work Selbstbezug und Normativität (Self-Reference and Normativity), he spent a year and a half as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2003, he completed his Habilitation with the work Kategorien des Zeitlichen (Categories of Temporality) at Leipzig University. After guest professorships at the University of Chicago and the New School University New York, he received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG and was an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2005 to 2012, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel, and since 2012 he has been Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His most recent book, Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, was published by Harvard University Press.