Owen Ware is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His areas of research include Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy, German and British Romanticism, and Global Philosophy. Professor Ware has authored several books, including Fichte’s Moral Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020), Kant’s Justification of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), Kant on Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany (Routledge, 2024), Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025), and Novalis’s ‘Heinrich von Ofterdingen’: A New Translation and Critical Study (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Prof. Owen Ware
Senior Fellow
Period at the center: April - September 2026; April - September 2027; April - September 2028
Research Project: Agents in Community: The Idea of Reciprocity After Kant
Email: owen.ware@utoronto.ca
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Agents in Community: The Idea of Reciprocity After Kant
This project investigates the reception and transformation of the concept of ‘reciprocity’ (and its related notion of ‘community’) in early post-Kantian philosophy, with a focus on Fichte, Schiller, F. Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, and Schelling.
Selected publications
Monographs
Novalis’s ‘Heinrich von Ofterdingen’: A New Translation and Critical Study (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany (Routledge, 2024)
Kant’s Justification of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Fichte’s Moral Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020)