Jonathan Barnes

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Jonathan Barnes FBA (* 1942 in Much Wenlock , Shropshire ) is a British philosopher and historian of philosophy with an analytical orientation and one of the leading specialists in ancient philosophy .

Life

Barnes attended the City of London School and Balliol College , Oxford . He then taught at Oxford for 26 years, first from 1968 to 1978 as a fellow at Oriel College , then as a fellow at Balliol College. From 1995 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva and since 2003 at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne . He retired in 2006 and has since lived in Ceaulmont , Département Indre , a small community in central France.

In 1991, together with a large number of well-known colleagues, he campaigned for the Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, who was arrested by the Israeli authorities without giving a charge .

Jonathan Barnes is the older brother of the British novelist Julian Barnes and appears with his family in an autobiographical essay by his brother on death.

Barnes has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1987 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999 .

Research priorities

Barnes is a specialist in Greek philosophy , especially in ancient logic , and is considered one of the leading interpreters of Aristotle , whose thinking he examines from and from an analytical perspective. In addition, he has translated into English fragments of the pre-Socratics , various writings by Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus , Alexander von Aphrodisias and Porphyrios .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Popular science introductions

  • Aristotle. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1982.
    • German translation: Aristotle. An introduction. Reclam, Ditzingen 1992, ISBN 3-15-008773-2 .
  • Coffee with Aristotle . Foreword by Julian Barnes. Duncan Baird, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-84483-572-0 .
    • German translation: For a coffee with Aristotle . With a foreword by Julian Barnes. Translated from English by Mara-Daria Cojocaru. DTV, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-423-34592-6 .

Editorships

  • with Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji (eds.): Articles on Aristotle. 4 volumes. Duckworth, London 1975.
  • with Malcolm Schofield and Myles Burnyeat (eds.): Doubt and dogmatism: studies in Hellenistic epistemology. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980.
  • with Julia Annas (Ed.): The Modes of skepticism: ancient texts and modern interpretations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985. ( Google books ; Axel Bühler: Review , PDF file; 135 kB)
  • with Mario Mignucci (Ed.): Matter and Metaphysics. Symposium Hellenisticum IV. Bibliopolis, Naples 1988.
  • with Miriam Griffin (ed.): Philosophia togata. Essays on philosophy and Roman society. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.
  • (Ed.): The toils of skepticism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994.
  • (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996. ( Google books )
  • with Miriam Griffin (ed.): Philosophia togata. Volume II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999.
  • Monique Canto-Sperber (Ed.): Philosophy grecque. In collaboration with Jonathan Barnes, Luc Brisson , Jacques Brunschwig and Gregory Vlastos . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-13-049508-7 .
  • (Ed.): Galien et la philosophie. Huit exposés suivis de discussions, Vandœuvres-Genève, 2 - 6 September 2002 . Entretiens préparés et présidés par Jonathan Barnes ( Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique , tome XLIX), Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2003, ISBN 2-600-00749-0 .
  • with Valentina Calzolari (ed.): L'œuvre de David l'Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque: Commentaria in Aristotelem Armeniaca - Davidis Opera . Texts réunis et édites by Valentina Calzolari and Jonathan Barnes. Vol. 1: Leiden: Brill, 2009 (Philosophia antiqua, 116), ISBN 978-90-04-16047-7 .

Translations into English

  • The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. 2 volumes (ed.). Princeton University Press, Princeton / New Jersey 1984; 2nd edition 1985; Reprinted 1995.
  • The Presocratic Philosophers. 2 volumes. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1979. Revised in one volume 1982. ( Google books ; Google books )
  • Early Greek Philosophy. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1987.
  • Aristotle: Posterior Analytics. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1975. (Clarendon Aristotle Series). 2nd edition: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Clarendon Press, 1993.
  • Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of skepticism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994. (Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: Review )
  • Porphyrios: Introduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2003. ( Google books ; Alan R. Perreiah: Review , PDF file; 116 kB)

literature

  • Jean-Michel Vienne: Philosophy analytique et histoire de la philosophie. Vrin, Paris 1997 (Problèmes et controverses).
  • Ben Morison, Katerina Ierodiakonou (Eds.): Episteme, etc. Essays in Honor of Jonathan Barnes. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julian Barnes: Nothing to be Frightened of. March 2008, ISBN 0-224-08523-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Much Wenlock , Shropshire