Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Neo-Aristotelianism: On the Medieval Renaissance and William of Ockham, by Reiner Schürmann

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Reiner Schürmann (1941–1993) was Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research from 1975–1993. He published extensively on topics ranging from medieval philosophy and Zen Buddhism to twentieth-century continental philosophy. He authored Broken Hegemonies (Indiana University Press, 2003), and Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (Indiana University Press, 1987). He translated and wrote a commentary on a number of Meister Eckhart’s sermons, published as Meister Eckhart, Mystic and Philosopher: Translations with Commentary (Indiana University Press, 1978). He also was the author of several articles, including “Trois penseurs du délaissement: Maître Eckhart, Heidegger, Suzuki,” published in two parts in Journal of the History of Philosophy (1974–75), and “La différence symbolique,” Cahiers internationaux de symbolisme (1972).

Reiner Schürmann, “Neo-Aristotelianism: On the Medieval Renaissance and William of Ockham,” in “100 Years of Philosophy at the New School,” special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40:2 (2019), pp. 319–47.

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