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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

  • 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, Andrea Cesalpino: genuinus Peripateticus, Spinozista ante Spinozam. Die Geburt einer Figur mit Doppelidentität in Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique, in: C. König-Pralong, M. Meliadò, Z. Radeva (Hrsg.), ‚Outsiders‘ and ‚Forerunners‘. Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy, Turnhout: Brepols, 2018 (Lectio 5), S. 395–433, https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.114884
  • 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
  • Z. Radeva, Quo pacto ex philosophis interpretes Aristotelis facti sunt? Die ‚genuinen‘ Peripatetiker der Frühen Neuzeit in Jacob Bruckers Historia critica philosophiae, in: U. Zahnd (Hrsg.), Language and Method. Historical and Historiographical Reflections on Medieval Thought, Freiburg: Rombach, 2017 (Paradeigmata 41), S. 281–307, https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/13824

Ongoing
June 2023 - May 2028
Religion

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

The 18th century represents a historical epoch that largely wanted to be understood as an 'age of reason' and is gladly understood as such even today. However, the contemporary developments of the traditional academic discipline of logic, which stylized itself as a practice oriented towards the cultivation of reason par excellence and at the same time was characterized by manifold attempts at renewal, are not a preferred subject of Enlightenment research. My project inquires into the place and significance of logic within religious and social reform projects, usually perceived as core concerns of the Enlightenment age. More concretely, it focuses on the usages of this discipline in the enactment of religious controversies and debates surrounding the social role of scholars in selected late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century milieus.
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