Rémi Brague

Rémi Brague ( born September 8, 1947 in Paris ) is a French philosopher with a focus on religious philosophy, Arabic philosophy and medieval philosophy.

Life

Rémi Brague graduated in philosophy and classical languages ​​in 1971 and received his doctorate in 1976. Later he studied in addition medieval Hebrew at the University of practical social science and Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations. From 1976 to 1988, he worked with research tasks at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. In 1986 he completed a doctorate in literature. He taught from 1988 to 1990 as a professor at the University of Bourgogne and since 1990 lecturer, since 1991 professor of medieval philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is also since 2002 held the chair of philosophy of religions in Europe ( Guardini Chair ) at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. Brague has taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Boston, Lausanne and Cologne.

Work

Bragues research focuses on a comparative history of ideas of ancient and medieval cultures. It examines the roots of medieval thought in the traditions of the ancient world and in religious sources. He deals here with the cosmological framework of the pre-modern anthropology and ethics, the providence of Thomas Aquinas, the tribulation as a universal experience and the need for a metaphysical justification for morality.

Honors

• In 2008, Brague was nominated for the Josef Pieper Prize "for outstanding philosophical writings on the European- Christian image of man ", which in the context of a symposium under the theme " Europe in search of himself" ( 15 to 17 May 2009) was awarded in Münster.
• From the Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI Foundation 2012, he was honored for his outstanding scientific achievements, in particular for his approach to combine " speculative thought and conception of history with " deep Christian and Catholic faith " ."

Writings

• Europe, an eccentric identity ( = Edition Pandora. Vol. 13). Campus, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-593-34837-3 (French original: Europe, la voie romaine, Paris 1992). 2nd revised and expanded edition: Europe - its culture, its barbarism. Eccentric identity and Roman secondarity. VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18473-9.
• Fatherland Europe. European and national identity in conflict (together with Peter Koslowski ). Passages, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85165-282-7.
• Wisdom of the world: the cosmos and world experience in Western thought. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53521-6 (French original: La Sagesse du monde, Paris 1999).
• Modérément modern. Flammarion, Paris, 2014, ISBN 978-2081331112.

Article

• Geocentrism as humiliation of human beings. In: International Journal for Philosophy. 1994/1, pp. 1-24.
• The history of European culture as a self - europeanisation. In: tumult. Writings on Transport Economics. 22, 1996 ( Special Issue: Europe's borders ), pp. 94-100.
• Changes in self- understanding and identity. In: Hans- Jürgen Heinrichs (ed.): The story does not end there! Conversations about the future of man and of Europe. Passages, Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-85165-387-8, pp. 293-306