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6Giovanni Pico’s warning against pantheistic implications in Ficino’s NeoplatonismIntellectual History Review 34 (1): 49-66. 2024.The famous controversy between Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola is known to regard the proper use of Platonism in humanist and Christian context. With special attention to Pico’s Commentary on a Canzone, the point of disagreement with Ficino, which is not at all obvious, is examined through a close reading. The result is that Pico sees the temptation of a pantheistic and anthropocentric understanding of the relationship between the human realm and God. Whereas Ficino engaged in …Read more
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22Pantheism and panpsychism in the Renaissance and the emergence of secularismIntellectual History Review 34 (1): 1-3. 2024.Pantheism, Panpsychism, and secularism? To any historian of ideas still under the die-hard spell of the Enlightenment narrative, this would appear as an unlikely connection.1 If ever the theory of...
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24This edition of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s “De ente et uno” (“On being and the one”) offers for the first time a key text for the reformation of metaphysics in Renaissance philosophy in German translation. The Latin text is added. The detailed introduction and careful commentary reveal the guiding points Pico has set with this work.
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13Philosophy in the Renaissance: an anthology (edited book)The Catholic University of America Press. 2022.The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual change and innovation as philosophers rediscovered the philosophy of classical antiquity and passed it on to the modern age. Renaissance philosophy is distinct both from the medieval scholasticism, based on revelation and authority, and from philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who transformed it into new philosophical systems. Despite the importance of the Renaissance to the development of philosophy over time, it has remain…Read more
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Ramón Llull (1232-1316) : Felix, or the Book of WondersIn Paul Richard Blum & James G. Snyder (eds.), Philosophy in the Renaissance: an anthology, The Catholic University of America Press. 2022.
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3Giordano Bruno’s Changing of Default PositionsIn Anne Eusterschulte & Henning S. Hufnagel (eds.), Turning traditions upside down: rethinking Giordano Bruno's enlightenment, Central European University Press. pp. 11-18. 2013.
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15Giordano BrunoInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher of the later Renaissance whose writings encompassed the ongoing traditions, intentions, and achievements of his times and transmitted them into early modernity. Taking up the medieval practice of the art of memory and of formal logic, he focused on the creativity of the human mind. Bruno … Continue reading Giordano Bruno →
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8American slave narratives as autoethnographic paradigmHuman Affairs 31 (2): 236-245. 2021.Ever since the publication of the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass in 1845, autobiographical testimonies were a mainstay of the abolition movement in the United States. Being or having been held as slaves and all the attendant injury is the very theme of the documents in question, which are testimonies, rather than theoretical works, because the authors maintained the first-person point of view. Since autoethnography aims at overcoming the preset mentality of the researcher in order t…Read more
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9Studies on Early Modern AristotelianismBrill. 2012.In Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle’s thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impact on the sciences and mathematics in combination with Renaissance ideas of nature is the topic of the second part. The transformation of Aristotelian metaphysics and theology under the influence of the Renaissance is the t…Read more
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4History and theory: the paradox in Francesco PatriziIntellectual History Review 29 (4): 649-654. 2019.
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6Principles and powers: How to interpret Renaissance philosophy of nature philosophically?Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 5 (1). 2001.The history of philosophy has to understand the problems to which past theories are intended as answers, rather than taking the latter as sets of doctrines, which may be correct or mistaken. Examples from the Renaissance are Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Bernardino Telesio, Girolamo Cardano, and Benedictus Pererius: they show that Renaissance thinkers sought for principles of nature in terms of active powers. Whoever denies the validity of such ideas has the burden of proof that alternative…Read more
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25In fugam vacui– Avoiding the Void in Baroque ThoughtQuaestio 17 427-460. 2017.The era of the Baroque witnessed a fierce debate over the interpretation of some experiments about the vacuum. It was riddled with fear of annihilation. My focus will not lie on the development of...
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9How to think with the head of another? The historical dimension of philosophical problemsIntellectual History Review 26 (1): 153-161. 2016.
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33Philosophie des Humanismus und der RenaissanceStudia Neoaristotelica 14 (2): 219-224. 2017.This paper is a review of the book "Philosophie des Humanismus und der Renaissance (1350–1600)" by Thomas Leinkauf.
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315Die Geschmückte Judith. Die Finalisierung der Wissenschaften bei Antonio Possevino S. JNouvelles de la République des Lettres 1 113-126. 1983.Es ist wahr, die frühe Neuzeit hatte nur einen Descartes. Aber sie hatte hunderte schreibende Gelehrte. Auch solche, die Descartes und allen anderen zeigten, wer was wo schon geschrieben hatte. Solche Universal-Gelehrten dachten an den einzelnen Schreiber, sie halfen ihm absichtlich nicht, die Quellen zu verbergen, sondern sie zu finden. Keine Träumereien an französischen oder schwäbischen Kaminen, sondern effiziente Arbeit am Jesuitenkolleg waren Ziel und Inhalt z.B. der Bibliotheca selecta , i…Read more
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11Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy. Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the SoulAnnals of Science 1-5. 2013.
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The Young Paul Oskar Kristeller as a PhilosopherIn John Monfasani (ed.), Kristeller Reconsidered, Essays on His Life and Scholarship, Italica. 2006.
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14Albert Krayer: Mathematik im Studienplan der Jesuiten. Die Vorlesung von Otto Cattenius an der Universität Mainz (1610/11). (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, Bd 15) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1991. IX + 434 Seiten, DM 98 (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 17 (2): 144-144. 1994.
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3The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy': Its Origin, Nature, Influence, and LegitimacyIntellectual History Review 20 (2): 295-297. 2010.No abstract
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Introduction: Philosophy in the renaissanceIn Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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4Neuzeitliche Philosophie ist "Philosophenphilosophie", das ist die These dieses Buches, denn seit der Renaissance und besonders seit der Wende der Philosophie bei Descartes bezieht die Philosophie ihre Autoritat aus dem Philosophen selbst, der sie vertritt. Das fur das moderne philosophische Argumentieren selbstverstandliche "Selbstdenken" belastet den Philosophen mit Verantwortung fur die Wahrheit, was auch moralische Konsequenzen hat. Das Gegenmodell ist die Schulphilosophie, die parallel dazu…Read more
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69Giordano Bruno: An IntroductionBrill | Rodopi. 2012.Giordano Bruno was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as …Read more
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4Philosophieren in der RenaissanceKohlhammer. 2004."Philosophieren in der Renaissance" - das Thema dieses Bandes ist zugleich bescheiden und voraussetzungsreich. Zwar kann der Autor bei weitem keine "Geschichte der Philosophie der Renaissance" versprechen, er beansprucht aber zeigen zu konnen, was in der Epoche der Renaissance zu philosophieren bedeutet hat. Dabei sollen zentrale Themen des Renaissance-Denkens zur Sprache kommen: Wurde des Menschen, Freiheit des Individuums, Mensch und Welt, Religionsfreiheit, Humanismus, Natur, Naturliche Theol…Read more
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40Marco Sgarbi: The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism. Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (review)Studia Neoaristotelica 10 (2): 247-251. 2013.
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19Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1): 121-122. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.1 (2002) 121-122 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy Jill Kraye and M. W. F. Stone, editors. Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 270. Cloth, $75.00 Early-modern philosophy begins in the seventeenth century. This book, based on a colloquium at the Warburg Institute, London in 1997, strives at extending the limits of this…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |