Thomas Leinkauf

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Thomas Leinkauf (born November 4, 1954 in Lüneburg ) is a German philosopher and professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University.

Life

Leinkauf comes from a Protestant family. From 1965 to 1974 he attended the old-language Markgrafen-Gymnasium Karlsruhe . From 1975 to 1984 he studied philosophy (with Werner Beierwaltes ), art history and history at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1982 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin through Athanasius Kircher . 1982–1985 he was assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1985–1991 assistant at the Free University of Berlin. Funded from 1991 to 1996 in the Heisenberg program , he held a visiting professorship at Charles University in Prague in the winter semester 1992/93 and in the summer semester 1993 . Since 1996 he has been Professor of Philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and Director of the Leibniz Research Center in Münster . On the philosophy of humanism and the Renaissance, he was a member of the magnum opus funding from the Volkswagen Foundation from 2010–2012 . He is also the editor of an Italian-German edition of Giordano Bruno's works.

Fonts

  • Art and reflection. Studies on the relationship between Philipp Otto Runge and the philosophical tradition , Munich (Fink) 1987.
  • Schelling as an interpreter of the philosophical tradition. On the reception and transformation of Plato, Plotinus, Aristoteles and Kant , Münster (LIT-Verlag) 1998.
  • Nicolaus Cusanus. An introduction to his thinking , Münster (Aschendorff) 2006.
  • Ed .: Light Structure - The Light in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. A handbook by the research group Historical Light Structures , 2011.
  • Unity, nature, spirit: contributions to basic metaphysical problems in thinking by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3896269270 .
  • Floor plan philosophy of humanism and the Renaissance (1350-1600) , 2 vols. Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3787327928 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A cultural asset or a Luther cult? (deutschlandfunkkultur.de)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Art and Reflection. Investigations into the relationship of Philipp Otto Runge to the philosophical tradition .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Mundus combinatus. Studies on the structure of baroque natural philosophy and universal science using the example of Athanasius Kirchers SJ (1602–1680) .
  4. ^ Leibniz Research Center Münster
personal data
SURNAME Leinkauf, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg