The Philosopher

Remo Bodei

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Nationality:
Italian
Branchs:
History of philosophy, Classical German philosophy, Weimar Classicism, Utopian thinkers, Contemporary political thought, Classical German idealism, Romantic age
Period:
20th century, 21st century

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Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and also taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Bodei was born in Cagliari. His initial interests were in classical German philosophy, and the Weimar Classicism period (1770–1830). He subsequently penned over 200 papers on utopian thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and contemporary political thought. He died in Pisa, aged 81. Bodei was considered a philosopher, "among the leading experts in the philosophies of classical German idealism and the Romantic age".

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