Gregory Moore

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2000

Gregory Moore is an intellectual historian with a particular interest in Germany since the Enlightenment. He is the author of Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and the translator and editor of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Selected Writings on Aesthetics (Princeton University Press, 2006), Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (Princeton University Press, 2024), and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

He is currently preparing a monograph on the philosophical reception of Darwinism in Germany. He teaches classes on European intellectual history, the history of capitalism, the philosophy of history, the history of sport, and the history of madness. He would welcome graduate students working on German history, European cultural and intellectual history, Anglo-German relations, and the history of biology.