Hans Sluga

Hans Sluga studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Munich. He subsequently obtained a BPhil at Oxford, where he studied under R. M. Hare, Isaiah Berlin, Gilbert Ryle and Michael Dummett. Since 1970, Sluga has been a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, serving from 2009 as the William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 2020. He previously served as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London. ==Philosophical work==

Sluga describes his philosophical orientation as follows: "My overall philosophical outlook is radically historicist. I believe that we can understand ourselves only as beings with a particular evolution and history." whose challenges are defined by the growth of human populations, rapid technological changes, and an ever more pressing environmental crisis. ==Wittgenstein scholar==

Sluga is a noted interpreter of Wittgenstein and has contributed significantly to Wittgenstein scholarship, including editing the 1996 volume The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein with David G. Stern. He has argued against the relevance of increasingly more detailed and sophisticated analyses of Wittgenstein's work, even claiming that Wittgenstein himself would not have regarded this exegetical excess as a legitimate concern for philosophy. In recent years, he has endorsed Rupert Read's "post-therapeutic" or "liberatory" interpretation of Wittgenstein. ==Books==

• Gottlob Frege, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1980 • Chinese translation, Beijing 1990, 2nd ed. 1993 • Greek translation, Athens 2010 • ''Heidegger's Crisis. Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany'', Harvard U. P. 1993 • Chinese translation, Beijing 2015 • Bulgarian translation, Sofia 2024 • Wittgenstein, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 • Italian translation, 2012 • Arabic translation, 2014 • Chinese translation, 2015 • Politics and the Search for the Common Good, Cambridge U. P. 2014 • The Philosophy of Frege, (ed.), 4 vols., Garland Press, 1993 • The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, (ed. With David Stern), Cambridge U. P. 1996 • Licensed Chinese edition, Beijing 2007 ==References==