Stern was born on 28 February 1962. He graduated from
St John's College, Cambridge, receiving his PhD with the dissertation
Hegel and the structure of the whole: relation and unity in the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel in 1986 and then became a
research fellow there. Stern became a professor at the
University of Sheffield in 2000, and was the head of the Department of Philosophy from 2004 to 2008. He was on the editorial board of the
European Journal of Philosophy, and was president of the
British Philosophical Association. He was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. Stern died from brain cancer on 21 August 2024, at the age of 62. Stern offers a holistic reading of Hegel, examining his entire philosophical approach. ==Works==