Sebastian Stein

Sebastian Stein
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Heidelberg (MA)
University of Oxford (PhD)
ThesisThe Objectivity of Freedom: A Systematic Commentary on the Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (2012)
Michael Inwood
Other advisor
Julia Peters
Academic work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or tradition
German Idealism
InstitutionsHeidelberg University
Websitehttps://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/philsem/personal/stein.html

Sebastian Stein (born 1980) is a philosophy researcher at Heidelberg University.

Life and works

Stein completed a B.A. (Honours) at the University of Manchester in 2004, followed by a Magister Artium at the University of Heidelberg in 2007. In 2012, they earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford with a dissertation titled The objectivity of freedom: A systematic commentary on the introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. From 2012 to 2018, they held teaching positions at the universities of Oxford, Heidelberg, and Tübingen. Since 2018, they have been a DFG (German Research Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, working on a project in meta-philosophy under the supervision of Julia Peters.

Selected publications

Editorials

  • Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings. New York: Routledge. 2021. doi:10.4324/9780429030192. ISBN 978-0-429-03019-2.
  • Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences: A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. doi:10.1017/9781108592000. ISBN 978-1-108-47198-5.
  • Hegel's Encyclopedic System. New York: Routledge. 2021. doi:10.4324/9780429022555. ISBN 978-0-429-02255-5.
  • Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism. Routledge. 2020. doi:10.4324/9781351205559. ISBN 978-1-351-20555-9.
  • Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System. OUP Academic. 2017-05-04. doi:10.1093/o.

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Sebastian Stein". www.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  2. ↑ Dunphy, Robb (2024-06-30). "Boldyrev, Ivan and Stein, Sebastian (eds.). Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings. New York / Abingdon: Routledge 2022, ix + 277 pp". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 106 (2): 375–378. doi:10.1515/agph-2023-0013. ISSN 1613-0650.
  3. ↑ "New Release: Ivan Boldyrev, Sebastian Stein (eds.), "Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Expositions and Critique of Contemporary Readings" (Routledge, 2022) | hegelpd". Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  4. ↑ Battistoni, Giulia (2022). "Hegel and contemporary practical philosophy: Beyond Kantian constructivism, edited by James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-03-217780-9, Pbk, £36.99, 392 pp". European Journal of Philosophy. 30 (2): 862–865. doi:10.1111/ejop.12797. ISSN 1468-0378.
  5. ↑ Brownlee, Timothy L. (2017). "Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  6. ↑ Katsman, Anna; Brooks, Thom; Stein, Sebastian (2017). "Review of Hegel?s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, BrooksThom, SteinSebastian". Hegel-Studien. 51: 222–224. ISSN 0073-1587.
  7. ↑ Farneth, Molly (2020-03-01). "Hegel's political philosophy: On the normative significance of method and system". Contemporary Political Theory. 19 (1): 55–58. doi:10.1057/s41296-018-0267-7. ISSN 1476-9336.
  8. ↑ Niklas, Filip (2019). "Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein, eds. Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System:". The Owl of Minerva. 50 (1): 106–116. doi:10.5840/owl2019501/23. ISSN 0030-7580.
  9. ↑ Vieweg, Klaus (May 2016). "Response to Critics". Hegel Bulletin. 37 (1): 156–163. doi:10.1017/hgl.2016.9. ISSN 2051-5367.