Michael Rosen is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He has worked on a wide variety of topics in philosophy, social theory and  the history  of ideas  with  particular  interest  in 19th  and 20th century European philosophy and in contemporary Anglo- American political philosophy. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (1970-74) before studying in Frankfurt and returning to complete his doctorate under Charles Taylor at Oxford (1980). He has taught at Harvard, Oxford and University College London before becoming a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford (1990), moving to Harvard in 2006. At Harvard, he has taught a broad range of subjects, including courses on German Idealism, Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Rawls and Contemporary Political Philosophy. He edited (with Brian Leiter) the Oxford Handbook Of Continental Philosophy (2007) and in 2012 published Dignity: Its History And Meaning.