Paul Richard Blum

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Paul Richard Blum (* 1950 ) is a German philosopher and Renaissance researcher . He was Professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore from 2002 to 2019 .

Life

After completing his first state examination in philosophy and German at the Universities of Cologne , Munich and Freiburg and a subsequent year of study in Florence , Blum received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Munich with a dissertation on Giordano Bruno . Initially a lecturer at the University of Munich, Blum was assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin from 1979 to 1981 , then assistant at the Institute for Philosophy there (with Karlfried Gründer and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann ). The habilitation took place in 1994 for philosophy. From 1996 to 2002 he was a professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest . From 2002 until his retirement in 2019 he held a chair in philosophy ( TJ Higgins, SJ, Chair ) at the Jesuit Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. From 2012 to 2014 he was also visiting professor at the Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).

Main areas of work

Blum's main fields of work are the philosophy of the Renaissance and humanism as well as Aristotelianism in the Renaissance. Among the philosophers, he is particularly concerned with Giordano Bruno , Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , for whom he has also created text editions and translations as for the humanist Jacobus Pontanus (1542–1626) and the counter- reformer Péter Pázmány . As a forum for Renaissance philosophy, he runs the “Renaissance philosophy blog”.

Works

Monographs
  • Nicholas of Cusa on Peace, Religion, and Wisdom in Renaissance Context , Regensburg (Roderer) 2018. [1]
  • Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism , New York / Leiden (Brill) 2012.
  • Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, Farnham (Ashgate) 2010.
  • The risk of being human: history - nature - religion. Studies on modern philosophy, Münster (Lit Verlag) 2010 (Philosophy: Research and Science 31).
  • Philosophizing in the Renaissance, Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2004 (Origins of Philosophizing 4).
  • Giordano Bruno , Munich 1999 (Beck's series “Thinkers” 551). English: Giordano Bruno. An Introduction , Amsterdam (Rodopi) 2012.
  • Philosophy of Philosophy and School Philosophy - Types of Philosophizing in Modern Times, Wiesbaden (Steiner) 1998 (Studia Leibnitiana special issue 27).
  • Aristotle with Giordano Bruno. Studies on the philosophical reception. Munich (Fink) 1980 (The history of ideas and its methods 9). English: Giordano Bruno Teaches Aristotle . Nordhausen (Bautz) 2016 (Studia Classica et Medievalia 12); Italian: Giordano Bruno lettore di Aristotle. Ricezione e critica. Lugano (Agorà) 2016 (Novae Insulae: Testi e storia della filosofia 3)
Editorships
  • With Hans-Christian Günther Bossuet - Artist, Intellectual and Man of Politics. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2019
  • With Nancy S. Struever, Studies in Intellectual Historiography - Festschrift for Constance Blackwell. Special Issue: Intellectual History Review 26 n.1 (2016).
  • Georgios Gemistos plethon. The Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance . Co-edited with Jozef Matula. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014.
  • Francesco Patrizi. Philosopher of the Renaissance . Co-edited with Tomáš Nejeschleba. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014.
  • Philosophers of the Renaissance, Washington (Catholic University of America Press) 2010.
  • Philosophers of the Renaissance, Darmstadt (Scientific Book Society / Primus) 1999.
  • Sapientiam amemus. Humanism and Aristotelianism in the Renaissance, Munich (Fink) 1999.
  • The Catholic Reformation , Microfiche Collection, Inter Documentation Company, Leiden 1987 ff.
  • Studies on the subject of death in the 16th century, Wolfenbüttel 1983 (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 22).
  • Early Studies of Giordano Bruno (Series of reprints: Bartholmèss 1846–47; Clemens 1847, Frith 1887; Tocco 1889–1892), 6 vols. with Introduction and Bibliography, Bristol (Thoemmes Press) 2000
Text editions with translations
  • Gasparo Contarini, De immortalitate animae - On the Immortality of the Soul , ed. Paul Richard Blum in cooperation with Elisabeth Blum, Jan Čížek, Martin Holan, Jan Janoušek, Jozef Matula, Jiří Michalík, Tomáš Nejeschleba, Lloyd A. Newton, Jana Slezáková , and Martin Žemla. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2020.
  • Marsilio Ficino, On Love or Plato's Supper . Revised edition. Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 2014.
  • Jacobus Pontanus: Soldier or Scholar: Stratocles or War. Edited together with Thomas D. McCreight. Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2009, Latin-English edition. Translated and with contributions by Students of Loyola University Maryland.
  • Giordano Bruno: Spaccio della bestia trionfante / expulsion of the triumphant animal, ed. together with Elisabeth Blum, Hamburg (Meiner) 2009 (Bruno Werke 5).
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: De ente et uno - About the being and the one. Latin-German, ed. together with Gregor Damschen , Dominic Kaegi and others, Hamburg (Meiner) 2006 (Philosophical Library 573).
  • Péter Pázmány: Graz Philosophical Disputations, Piliscsaba (Péter Pázmány Catholic University) 2003.
  • Marsilio Ficino: Treatises on Platonic Philosophy, ed. together with Elisabeth Blum and Thomas Leinkauf. Berlin (Akademie Verlag) 1993 (Collegia, Philosophical Texts). (Hungarian: Marsilio Ficino: Platonikus írások , Budapest (Szent István Társulat) 2003).
  • Marsilio Ficino: About love or Plato's feast, lat.-dt. Hamburg (Meiner) 1984 (Philosophical Library 368); Reprint 1994 and 2004. Revised edition 2014.
  • Giordano Bruno: From the cause, the principle and the one, ed. with comment, trans. by Adolf Lasson, introduction by Werner Beierwaltes . Hamburg (Meiner) 1977 (Philosophische Bibliothek 21) reprinted 1983 and 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renaissance philosophy blog
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Paul Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and Renaissance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1950