Allen Speight

Allen Speight is Professor of Philosophy and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University.  A recipient of Fulbright, DAAD and Berlin Prize Fellowships, he is the author of Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge University Press); The Philosophy of Hegel (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and of numerous articles on aesthetics and ethics in German idealism; he is also editor of Narrative, Philosophy and Life (Springer); co-editor/translator (with Brady Bowman) of Hegel’s Heidelberg Writings (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor (with Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge) of Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” and Philosophy (Oxford University Press).  He is currently working on a project on the asethetic challenges of early art as well as a Life of Hegel for the “Critical Lives” series (Reaktion Books).
Last updated on May 31st, 2026.