Giovanni RF Ferrari
Giovanni RF Ferrari (born December 12, 1954 ) is a British classical philologist and historian of philosophy .
Life
He received his BA in 1977 from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in June 1983 in Cambridge (dissertation advisors : Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen and Geoffrey Lloyd . Dissertation examiners : Myles Burnyeat and Alexander Nehamas ). From 1981 to 1988 he was a lecturer at Yale University , Department of Philosophy. Since 1988, he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley , Department of Classics .
His research interests are ancient philosophy (especially Plato ), aesthetics, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric, philosophical aesthetics.
Fonts (selection)
- Listening to the cicadas. A study of Plato 's Phaedrus . Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-26778-1 .
- City and soul in Plato's Republic . Sankt Augustin 2003, ISBN 3-89665-170-6 .
- as editor: The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic . Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0-521-54842-X .
- The messages we send. Social signals and storytelling . Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-879842-2 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ferrari, Giovanni RF |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferrari, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical philologist and historian of philosophy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1954 |