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Dr. Zornitsa L. Radeva

Research associate

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Since June 2023: Research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz
2021-2023: Research assistant at the Chair of Early Modern History, University of Halle-Wittenberg (substitute assistant position)
2020-2021: Postdoctoral researcher (assegnista di ricerca) at the PRIN project “Averroism. History, Developments and Implications of a Crosscultural Tradition”, Dipartimento di Filosofia “Piero Martinetti”, Università degli Studi di Milano
2020: Doctorate at the University of Freiburg i.Br., dissertation title: “The Reform of Reason. The Rise of Modern History of Philosophy and the Fate of Renaissance Aristotelianism”.
2014-2019: Research assistant and PhD student at the ERC project “MEMOPHI (Medieval Philosophy in Modern History of Philosophy)”, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg i.Br,
2011-2013: M.A. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Freiburg i.Br. (with DAAD scholarship)
2009-2011: M.A. Ancient Culture and Literature, University of Sofia
2005-2009: B.A. Philosophy, Sofia University

  • Early modern history of knowledge and universities (esp. logic, natural philosophy and medicine at universities in Italy and the Old Empire)
  • History of the historiography of philosophy
  • Enlightenment research

  • Z. Radeva, „The Renaissance in Retreat: Debating the Image of Humanist Culture in the German Early Enlightenment“, in: M. Meliadò, C. Muratori (Hrsg.), The Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice, Leiden: Brill, 2025 (Brill’s Series in Philosophical Historiographies), S. 43–65, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004722323_004
  • Z. Radeva, „Innovation or (Latent) Calvinisation? Jean Sperlette (1661–1725) and His Logica Nova at the University of Halle“, in: M. Füssel, A. Pečar (Hrsg.), Aufklärungsuniversitäten im Alten Reich? Institutionelle und epistemologische Neuanstöße im 18. Jahrhundert in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024 (Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung), S. 95–125, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111477060-006
  • C. König-Pralong, M. Meliadò, Z. Radeva (Hrsg.), The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019 (Ad argumenta. Quaestio’s Special Issues), https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.117384
  • Z. Radeva, At the Origins of a Tenacious Narrative. Jacob Thomasius and the History of Double Truth, in: Intellectual History Review 29/3 (2019), S. 417–438, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2018.1521626 
  • Z. Radeva, From Reconstruction to Reformation. Jacob Thomasius’s Use of Aristotle in the Debate on the Origin of the Human Soul, in: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 84/2 (2017), S. 427–463, https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.84.2.3269053

Ongoing
June 2023 - May 2028
Religion

Logic for Enlightenment? Religion, Society, and the Place of Logic in Enlightenment Discourses

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, self-styled ‘Enlighteners’ famously created an image of their times as an ‘Age of Reason’, an image that research on this period has tended to accept uncritically. In the imaginaire of both these historical actors and many of the scholars who have studied them, it was a period when ‘philosophy’ and ‘philosophical ideas’ took centre stage as the drivers of ‘enlightened’ change. It is all the more surprising that the history of the academic discipline of logic, a traditional subbranch of philosophy, is a subject largely neglected in Enlightenment studies. My project investigates the place and significance of logic within various enterprises for religious and social reform, which are generally regarded as the Enlightenment’s core concern.
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