Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto where he also teaches at the Centre for Jewish Studies and is Associate Member of the Centre for Comparative Literature. Before, he taught at Columbia University and Bard College. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his lic. phil. -- an M. Phil equivalent -- from the University of Zurich. He is the author of "Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine" (2003) and "Constituting Critique: Kant's Writing as Critical Praxis" (1994). His most recent publication, "Mein 1933", is a photo essay that presents a text by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt along with pictures by Edith Moos. He is also the editor of the collected works of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt and the president of the Foundation Dialogik, Switzerland. He has served as executive editor and is senior editor of The Germanic Review. His teaching and research includes modern German literature and thought, modern Jewish thought, and critical theory.