About Thomas Leinkauf
Born 1954. Thomas Leinkauf is a German art historian, university teacher and philosopher.
Thomas Leinkauf (born November 4, 1954, in Lüneburg) is a German philosopher and a professor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His fields of interest are late antique, Renaissance and early modern philosophy, as well as Idealism.
Background and career In 1974, he graduated at the "humanistic" branch of Markgrafen-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe. From 1975 to 1984 he studied philosophy (with Werner Beierwaltes), art history, and history, at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Furthermore, he is the editor of a bilingual Italian-German edition of the works of Giordano Bruno.
Select bibliography Kunst und Reflexion. Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis Philipp Otto Runges zur philosophischen Tradition, München (Fink) 1987. Schelling als Interpret der philosophischen Tradition. Zur Rezeption und Transformation von Platon, Plotin, Aristoteles und Kant, Münster (LIT-Verlag) 1998. Nicolaus Cusanus. Eine Einführung in sein Denken, Münster (Aschendorff) 2006. coeditor: Lichtgefüge - Das Licht im Zeitalter Rembrandts und Vermeers - Ein Handbuch der Forschungsgruppe Historische Lichtgefüge, 2011. Einheit, Natur, Geist: Beiträge zu metaphysischen Grundproblemen im Denken von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Berlin 2012 . Grundriss Philosophie des Humanismus und der Renaissance (1350-1600), 2 vols., Hamburg 2017 .
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