{{Short description|American philosopher}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western philosophy | era = Contemporary philosophy | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = | birth_name = Terry P. Pinkard | name = Terry Pinkard | thesis_title = The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302802068 | thesis_year = 1975 | education = University of Texas at Austin (BA, MA)<br />Stony Brook University (PhD) | school_tradition = Continental philosophy, Hegelianism, postanalytic philosophy | doctoral_advisor = Patrick A. Heelan | institutions = Georgetown University | main_interests = History of philosophy, philosophy of politics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, modernity | notable_ideas = Historical shapes of justice }}
'''Terry P. Pinkard''' (born 1947) is an American philosopher and distinguished university professor emeritus at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focus on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to the present.<ref name="berkley">{{Cite web |last=Affairs |first=Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World |title=Terry Pinkard |url=https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/terry-pinkard |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=berkleycenter.georgetown.edu |language=en}}</ref> In addition to his own thought, Pinkard is a "noted Hegel scholar" whose translation of Hegel's ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' is "accomplished" and "admirably clear."<ref>[https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-phenomenology-of-spirit Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: The Phenomenology of Spirit]</ref>
== Education and career == Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University with the dissertation, ''The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM: KANT, HEGEL, HUSSERL. - ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/302802068/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Georgetown University Faculty Directory |url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rm0VAAS/terry-pinkard |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=gufaculty360.georgetown.edu}}</ref> He taught at Georgetown University from 1975 to 2000, at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.<ref name="berkley" />
=== Selected publications === * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001 |chapter=|doi=10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001|title=Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit|date=2023|last1=Pinkard|first1=Terry|isbn=978-0-19-766312-7}} * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001 |chapter= |doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001 |title=Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Practice, Power, and Forms of Life |date=2022 |last1=Pinkard |first1=Terry |isbn=978-0-226-81324-0}} * {{Cite book |last=Pinkard |first=Terry |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.4159/9780674978782/html |title=Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice |date=2017 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-97878-2 |language=en |doi=10.4159/9780674978782}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tripaldi |first=Elena |date=2017 |title=Terry Pinkard, Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice, Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 272, € 45,00, ISBN 9780674971776 |url=https://www.research.unipd.it/handle/11577/3259758}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yeomans |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Yeomans |title=Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/does-history-make-sense-hegel-on-the-historical-shapes-of-justice/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729074053/https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/does-history-make-sense-hegel-on-the-historical-shapes-of-justice/ |archive-date=2024-07-29 |access-date=2025-08-04 |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abazari |first=Arash |author-link=Arash Abazari |date=2019 |title=Terry Pinkard. Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-674-97177-6 (hbk). Pp. 272. £39.95. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205153671700021X/type/journal_article |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=500–504 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2017.21 |issn=2051-5367|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001 |chapter= |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001 |title=Hegel's Naturalism, Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life |date=2012 |last1=Pinkard |first1=Terry |isbn=978-0-19-986079-1}} * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801846 |chapter= |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511801846 |title=German Philosophy 1760–1860 |date=2002 |last1=Pinkard |first1=Terry |isbn=978-0-521-66381-6}} * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316036433 |chapter= |doi=10.1017/CBO9781316036433 |title=Hegel's Phenomenology |date=1994 |last1=Pinkard |first1=Terry |isbn=978-0-521-56834-0}}
==== Translations ==== * {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139050494 |chapter= |doi=10.1017/9781139050494 |title=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' |date=2018 |last1=Hegel |first1=Georg Wilhelm Fredrich |isbn=978-1-139-05049-4 |editor-first1=Terry |editor-first2=Michael |editor-link2=Michael Baur (philosopher) |editor-last1=Pinkard |editor-last2=Baur}}
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==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * {{Google Scholar ID|id=fWI_mR8AAAAJ}} * [https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rm0VAAS/terry-pinkard Terry Pinkard] on Georgetown University * [https://philpeople.org/profiles/terry-pinkard Terry Pinkard] on PhilPapers
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