Kurt Flasch (born 12 March 1930,

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) is a German

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, who works mainly as a historian of

medieval thought Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

and of

late antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

. Flasch was professor at the

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. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the

Sigmund Freud Prize The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose (German: ''Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa'') is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (G ...

by the

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Awards and recognitions

2000 * Honorary Doctorate from

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2002 *

Hannah Arendt Prize The Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought () is a prize awarded to individuals representing the tradition of political theorist Hannah Arendt, especially in regard to totalitarianism. It was instituted by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation ...

2009 * Honorary Doctorate from

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2010 * Joseph Breitbach Prize 2012

Works in English

* ''Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity''. Yale University Press, November 24, 2015

Bibliography

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ''Katholische Wegbereiter des Nationalsozialismus. Michael Schmaus, Joseph Lortz, Josef Pieper. Essay.'' Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 2021, ISBN 978-3-465-02706-5.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flasch, Kurt 1930 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers German male writers Translators of Dante Alighieri Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities