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**Terry P. Pinkard** (born 1947) is an American [philosopher](/source/Philosopher) and distinguished university professor emeritus at [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University). His research and teaching focus on the [German tradition](/source/German_tradition_of_philosophy) in philosophy from [Kant](/source/Immanuel_Kant) to the present.[1] In addition to his own thought, Pinkard is a "noted [Hegel](/source/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel) scholar" whose translation of Hegel's *[The Phenomenology of Spirit](/source/The_Phenomenology_of_Spirit)* is "accomplished" and "admirably clear."[2]

## Education and career

Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the [University of Texas at Austin](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Austin) and his Ph.D. from [Stony Brook University](/source/Stony_Brook_University) with the dissertation, *The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl*.[3][4] He taught at [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) from 1975 to 2000, at [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University) from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.[1]

### Selected publications

- Pinkard, Terry (2023). [*Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit*](https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001). [doi:10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001). ISBN 978-0-19-766312-7.
- Pinkard, Terry (2022). [*Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Practice, Power, and Forms of Life*](https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001). [doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001). ISBN 978-0-226-81324-0.
- Pinkard, Terry (2017). [*Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice*](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.4159/9780674978782/html). Harvard University Press. [doi:10.4159/9780674978782](https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674978782). ISBN 978-0-674-97878-2.[5][6][7]
- Pinkard, Terry (2012). [*Hegel's Naturalism, Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life*](https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001). [doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001). ISBN 978-0-19-986079-1.
- Pinkard, Terry (2002). [*German Philosophy 1760–1860*](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801846). [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511801846](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801846). ISBN 978-0-521-66381-6.
- Pinkard, Terry (1994). [*Hegel's Phenomenology*](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316036433). [doi:10.1017/CBO9781316036433](https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316036433). ISBN 978-0-521-56834-0.

#### Translations

- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich (2018). [*Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:*The Phenomenology of Spirit'](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139050494)**. Pinkard, Terry & Baur, Michael (eds.). [doi:10.1017/9781139050494](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139050494). ISBN 978-1-139-05049-4.**

## Notes

1. Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. ["Terry Pinkard"](https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/terry-pinkard). *berkleycenter.georgetown.edu*. Retrieved 2025-06-11.

1. [Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: The Phenomenology of Spirit](https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-phenomenology-of-spirit)

1. ["THE FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM: KANT, HEGEL, HUSSERL. - ProQuest"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/302802068/). *www.proquest.com*. Retrieved 2025-06-11.

1. ["Georgetown University Faculty Directory"](https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rm0VAAS/terry-pinkard). *gufaculty360.georgetown.edu*. Retrieved 2025-06-11.

1. Tripaldi, Elena (2017). ["Terry Pinkard, Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice, Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 272, € 45,00, ISBN 9780674971776"](https://www.research.unipd.it/handle/11577/3259758)

1. Yeomans, Christopher. ["Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice"](https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/does-history-make-sense-hegel-on-the-historical-shapes-of-justice/). *Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20240729074053/https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/does-history-make-sense-hegel-on-the-historical-shapes-of-justice/) 2024-07-29 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-04.

1. Abazari, Arash (2019). ["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."](https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205153671700021X/type/journal_article). *Hegel Bulletin*. **40** (3): 500–504. [doi:10.1017/hgl.2017.21](https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2017.21). [ISSN 2051-5367](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2051-5367)

## External links

- [Terry Pinkard](https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rm0VAAS/terry-pinkard) on [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University)
- [Terry Pinkard](https://philpeople.org/profiles/terry-pinkard) on [PhilPapers](/source/PhilPapers)

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