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Aria of Specialization:
History of Philosophy
o Topics: Renaissance philosophy, early modern philosophy, Existentialism, East-European philosophy, historiography of philosophy
o Figures: Socrates, Hypatia, Boethius, Thomas More, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, George Berkeley, Friedrich Nietzsche
Continental philosophy
o Topics: phenomenology of death & dying, phenomenology of the body, utopianism, philosophy of place & space, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, creation and novelty, cross-cultural hermeneutics, modes of marginality (intellectual, epistemic, cultural)
o Figures: Miguel de Unamuno, Martin Heidegger, P-L. Landsberg, Albert Camus, Emil Cioran, Jan Patočka, Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Vladimir Jankélévitch
Philosophy and literature
o Topics: genres of philosophical writing, philosophical styles, rhetorical devices in philosophy, literariness of philosophical texts, philosophical canons, philosopher as artist, ontology of fiction, philosophy of the novel, magic realism
o Figures: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera
Philosophy of religion
o Topics: martyrdom & voluntary death, confrontation with death, theologia ludens, alchemy, apologetics, “the God of the philosophers” vs. “the God of religion,” religion and film, secularization / post-secularism, religious violence, religion & film
o Figures: Thomas More, Pascal, Girard
Philosophy and film
o Topics: recent Romanian cinema, East-European cinema, Italian Neo-realism, Dogme 95, film narrative, philosophically oriented films
o Figures: Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa
Areas of Competence:
Interdisciplinary Humanities
Philosophy and the Arts
History of Ideas
European Studies
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