
He joined Syracuse University in 2001, where he remains as of 2017. During his tenure at Indiana, he spent time teaching at Yale University. He returned to the United States in 1990 to take up a professorship at Indiana University Bloomington, where he remained until 2001. In 1988, Beiser moved again to West Germany, where he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He also edited The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics (Cambridge University Press} in 1996. He has since edited two Cambridge anthologies on Hegel, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2008), and written a number of books on German philosophy and the English Enlightenment. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book. Consequently, a great many figures, whose importance was hardly recognized by the English speaking philosophers, were given their proper due. In the book, Beiser sought to reconstruct the background of German Idealism through the narration of the story of the Spinoza or Pantheism controversy. In 1987, Beiser released his first book, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte ( Harvard University Press).

He then spent the springs of 19 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Colorado Boulder, respectively. He joined the University of Pennsylvania's faculty in 1984, staying there until 1985. He returned to the United States four years later.



CareerĪfter receiving his DPhil in 1980, Beiser moved to West Germany, where he was a Thyssen Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. Beiser earned his DPhil degree from Wolfson College of Oxford University in 1980, under the direction of Charles Taylor and Isaiah Berlin. He subsequently studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1974 to 1975. He then studied at the Oriel College of Oxford University, where he received a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1974. In 1971, Beiser received a bachelor's degree from Shimer College, a Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois.
