Iring Fetscher

Iring Fetscher (1922–2014) was a German political scientist and university professor. From 1963 to 1987, he was Professor of Political Theory and Social Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Karl Marx, as well as the various strands of European Marxism. Fetscher wrote and edited numerous works on political philosophy and the theory and history of Marxism.