Visiting Scholar
Website: https://joshua-folkerts.com/
Areas of Interest: political theory and the history of ideas, welfare state theory, power of interpretation, myth theory, and Hegel’s political theory
Joshua Folkerts is a Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. student at Universität Rostock in Rostock, Germany. He is a political scientist with a focus on political theory and the history of ideas. His research interests include the classics of political theory, political myths, welfare state theory, interpretative power analysis, and the political theory of G.W.F. Hegel.
Joshua published on topics such as the discoursive history of Rawls’ theory of justice, the role of political myth in the English Civil Wars, the intellectual history of interpretative power, the Hegelian forefathers of the German welfare state, political extremism, and how belief systems may help us to analyze conflicts.
Currently, Joshua is working on a thesis about Hegel’s contribution to the intellectual history and political theory of the welfare state.
Any students interested in Joshua’s research topics or a (Fulbright) academic exchange to Germany are welcome to drop by his office or contact him via e-mail.
Joshua will be joining BU Philosophy from August 2022 to January 2023, and is hosted by Professor Allen Speight.