Gerad Gentry

About

PROFESSIONAL: Gerad Gentry is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Faculty Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität-Potsdam (2020-22) with a TT post in philosophy at Lewis University in Chicago and a Visiting Associate in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was a Bilinski Fellow and Research Visitor (VAR) in the philosophy department at Yale University, and a Fulbright scholar in Germany.

AOS: He specializes in German idealism and romanticism, particularly Kant and Hegel, with a thematic sub-focus on conceptions of purposiveness, epistemic necessity, normativity, and aesthetic formation. Interested in human formation and the growth of self-consciousness through diverse methodological forms, with particular interest in the necessary conditions of knowledge, diverse methodologies for knowledge, and the idealist conceptions of a self-grounding ground for a system of knowledge. AOC: ethical theory, social thought.

WORK: He is the author of several articles on Kant and Hegel including for the Kant Studien (forthcoming), editor of the forthcoming Kantian Legacies in German Idealism for the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Routledge), and as well as co-editor of the Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism, (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He serves as president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism. Other work includes serving as editor for (1) SGIR Review, a peer-reviewed publisher in German Idealism and Romanticism (2017-present), (2) the Yale Law School peer-review journal: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2017-18), (3) Evental Aesthetics (2017-present), (4) referee for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, (5) reviewer for the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (forthcoming), and (6) program committee for the central American Philosophical Association.

PERSONAL: I love time with my spouse and kids, particularly in nature and in diverse cultures globally. I am grateful to have lived and researched six years in four continents beyond North America. Activities include tennis, soccer, sprint-triathlons, pottery, photography, sculpting, and cross-country skiing. I love literature, from the novels of Dostoevsky to the poems of T.S. Eliot; from the short stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to the epic myths of J.R.R. Tolkien.