Salim Kemal

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Salim Kemal ( 1948 - November 19, 1999 ) was a British philosopher .

Kemal holds a BA from Middlesex University and an MA from the University of London . In 1981 he received his PhD from Cambridge University . He was Elected Fellow 1979, Resident Fellow 1984 to 1986 and Research Fellow at Wolfson College , Cambridge . In between, from 1981 to 1984, he was at the American University in Beirut . From 1986 to 1995 he was an associate professor, then a professor at Pennsylvania State University . He was also a Research Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, St Cross College . Most recently, from 1995, he was Chair of Philosophy and Head of the Department at the University of Dundee , Scotland . Kemal passed away at the age of 51.

Kemal worked on poetics and aesthetics , from al-Fārābī , Avicenna and Averroes (taking into account the reception of the poetics of Aristotle ) to Kant and Nietzsche .

Fonts (selection)

  • Kant and Fine Art: An Essay on Kant and the Philosophy of Fine Art and Culture. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1986.
  • The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna. Brill, Leiden 1991, (excerpts online)
  • The Philosophical poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroës. The Aristotelian Reception. Routledge Shorton, London 2003.

literature

  • Carl Hausman and Paul Gorner: Obituary Salim Kemal, in: Kantian Review 4, 2000, pp. 162–163, (excerpt online)

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personal data
SURNAME Kemal, Salim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1999