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Kurt Flasch

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Kurt Flasch, born 1930 in Mainz, earned his Ph.D. (1956) and his ‘Habilitation’ (1969) in Frankfurt. From 1970 until his retirement in 1995 he held the chair of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum. An award-winning philosopher and historian, he has devoted himself for many decades to the history of Christian thought. His main research focus is the philosophy of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2012 Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2009 Hannah Arendt Prize
  • 2001 Kuno Fischer Prize
  • 2000 Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Writing

More Publications

Hans Blumenberg. Philosoph in Deutschland. Die Jahre 1945 bis 1966.
Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 2017.
 
Der Teufel und seine Engel. Die neue Biographie
Beck Verlag, Munich 2015.
 
Meister Eckhart. Philosoph des Christentums.
C.H.Beck Verlag, Munich 2010.
 
Eva und Adam. Wandlungen eines Mythos.
C.H.Beck Verlag, Munich 2005.
 
Vernunft und Vergnügen. Liebesgeschichten aus dem Decameron
C.H.Beck Verlag, Munich 2002.
 
Das philosophische Denken im Mittelalter
Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1986.
 
Augustin. Einführung in sein Denken
Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1980.

Featured Books

Book cover Why I am not a christian

Warum ich kein Christ bin. Bericht und Argumentation
[Why I am not a christian]

C.H.Beck Verlag

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