Reichert, Roey

since 10/2025

Post-Doc Fellow der Minerva Stiftung, Research Residency at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA), Gastgeber: Prof. Dr. Daniel Fulda, für 24 Monate, beginnend in 10/2025

2024/25

Fellow-in-Residence am Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University und Malka and Simcha Pratt Research Fellow an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2023/24

Postdoctoral Research Fellow am Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University

since 12/2022

Assoziiertes Mitglied des IZEA

12/2022

Ph.D. UCLA, Los Angeles

10/2021-10/2022

DAAD-Stipendiat at IZEA

2019: Stipendium für Aufklärungsforschung at IZEA

Fall 2013

UCLA, Los Angeles, California Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) as of June 2018

Majors: Political Theory and International Relations

2010-2013:               

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

M.A. Political Science. Magna Cum Laude

2007-2010:               

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

B.A. Double Major: Political Science and Philosophy

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the German Enlightenment: The Anthropological Foundations of Kant, Herder, and Forster's Political Thought

At a time when nationalism and cosmopolitanism seem locked in irreconcilable conflict across the globe, the project traces one crucial intellectual origin of this debate to the German Enlightenment. By examining the political theories of Kant, Herder, and Georg Forster, Roey Reichert explores how their different conceptions of human nature—their philosophical anthropologies—led to strikingly different approaches to how universal values and particular identities might be mediated. Rather than treating nationalism and cosmopolitanism as mutually exclusive worldviews, as is common today, these Enlightenment thinkers developed nuanced conceptual frameworks for understanding the relationship between the two. This historical analysis offers fresh insights into one of our era's most  pressing political questions and suggests that the current polarization  may not be as inevitable as it appears.

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen:

"Kant's Anthropological Time: The Aeonic View of the Human ‎Species and the Très Longue Durée of Enlightenment", Kant's Project of Enlightenment: Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress (Forthcoming, 2027)

"Immanuel Kant's  Anthropology and Ernest Gellner's Critique of the Modern Social  Sciences", Philosophy of the Social Sciences 55, no. 4 (2025)

"Herder and the Limits of Einfühlung", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31:2 (2023)

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the German Enlightenment: ‎ The Anthropological Foundations of Immanuel Kant’s Political Thought

Zusammenfassung:

My DAAD fellowship at IZEA is dedicated to completing my dissertation, which examines Kant’s conceptual relationships of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Rather than focusing on these concepts in isolation, the object of this study is to examine how he viewed the relationship between the two. The dissertation argues that this relationship must be understood against the background of Kant’s philosophical anthropology, as well as his engagement with the Popularphilosophie intellectual movement.

Thus, the dissertation aims to accomplish three goals: The first is to uncover different ways in which the relations between nationalism and cosmopolitanism were conceptualized in the past. Second, by gleaning historical insights from an intellectual landscape of an era not dissimilar to our own, it aspires to add nuance to our own present political predicament–where nationalism and cosmopolitanism are commonly accepted as being antithetical to each other.

Finally, as part of a larger scholarly vision that endeavors to reintegrate philosophical anthropology into the foundations of political thought, it seeks to demonstrate how this approach deepens our understanding of intellectual history–while broadening the horizons of contemporary political theory as well.