Dr Amos Edelheit

    Philosophy

    Lecturer
    Assistant Professor

    Arts Building
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    Biography

    Research Interests

    My main research interest is Renaissance and Early-Modern philosophy, broadly construed in both historical and systematic fashions and focused on the reception of classical and scholastic theories in early-modern discourse on the one hand, and on the many philosophical innovations which took place in the period between the 14th and the 17th centuries in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology, moral psychology and philosophical anthropology, science and politics on the other hand.

    Book

    Year Publication
    2022 Dr Amos Edelheit (2022) A Philosopher at the Crossroads. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy. Leiden: Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History (BSIH 338).
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) Humanism, Theology, and Spiritual Crisis in Renaissance Florence: Giovanni Caroli’s “Liber dierum lucensium”. A Critical Edition with English Translation, Commentary and Introduction. Leiden: Brill: Renaissance Society of America – Texts and Studies (RSA-TS) series, vol. 10. http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/humanism-theology-and-spiritual-crisis-renaissance-florence-giovanni-carolis-liber-dierum-lucensium
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) Scholastic Florence. Moral Psychology in the Quattrocento. Leiden: Brill: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, volume 230.
    2008 Dr Amos Edelheit (2008) Ficino, Pico, and Savonarola: The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2-1498. Leiden: Brill: The Medieval Mediterranean series, volume 78.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2022 Dr Amos Edelheit (2022) 'Renaissance Conceptions of Human Being' In: Human. A History. Oxford : Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, Oxford University Press.
    2022 Dr Amos Edelheit (2022) 'Negative and Positive Curiositas in the Renaissance: A Lesson from Petrarca' In: Miscellanea Mediaevalia 42. Berlin : De Gruyter.
    2022 Dr Amos Edelheit (2022) 'Pico and the Scholastics: Formation, Traces, Reception' In: La lama del sapiente. Saggi sulla filosofia di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Pisa : Edizioni della Normale.
    2021 Dr Amos Edelheit (2021) 'The Case of Plato’s Charmides in the Fifteenth Century: Ficino, Poliziano and a Lesson from Bruni. Preliminary Notes' In: Plato and his Legacy. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) 'The Rise of Classical Scholarship' In: Routledge Companion to Sixteenth-Century Philosophy. New-York : Routledge.
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) 'From Logic to Ethics and from Natural Philosophy to Mathematics: Nicoletto Vernia and the Division of Philosophy – Continuation and Innovation' In: For A Skeptical Peripatetic: Festschrift in Honour of John Glucker. Sankt Augustin (Germany) : Academia Verlag (Studies on Ancient Moral and Political Philosophy series, volume 3).
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) 'Marsilio Ficino and Augustine' In: The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
    2012 Dr Amos Edelheit (2012) 'Reading the Penitential Psalms in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence: The Case of Giovanni Caroli and a Note on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola' In: Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants. The Bible for the Laity and Theologians in Late Medieval and Early Modern Era (Biblioteca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium). Leuven : Peeters.
    2011 Dr Amos Edelheit (2011) 'Henry of Ghent and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Chapter on the Reception and Influence of Scholasticism in the Renaissance' In: A Companion to Henry of Ghent (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, volume 23). Leiden : Brill.
    2009 Dr Amos Edelheit (2009) 'Paganism in the Renaissance? The Case of Giovanni Caroli' In: The Humanist Workshop. Special Issue on Salvatore I. Camporeale, in Italian Quarterly. Rutgers : Rutgers University.

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2023 Dr Amos Edelheit (Ed.). (2023) Renaissance Scholasticism(s): Fighting Back. Leiden: Brill: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Traditions (SMRT),
    2020 John Glucker (author), Amos Edelheit (editor) (Ed.). (2020) Classics and Classicists. Selected Essays, 1964-2000. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
    2017 Yosef Z. Liebersohn, Ivor Ludlam, Amos Edelheit (Ed.). (2017) For A Skeptical Peripatetic: Festschrift in Honour of John Glucker. Sankt Augustin (Germany): Academia Verlag (Studies on Ancient Moral and Political Philosophy series, volume 3),

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2022 Dr Amos Edelheit (2022) 'The Reappearance of Metaphysics? In Search for εὐδαιμονία: Plotinus via Ficino'. Accademia, XXI (2019) [published in 2022] :51-68.
    2020 Dr Amos Edelheit (2020) 'Pico the Magician and Kabbalist. Is it Really the Case?'. Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 5 :445-450.
    2019 Edelheit, A (2019) ''RENAISSANCE SCHOLASTICISM' STRIKES AGAIN: NICOLETTO VERNIA AND THE DEBATE BETWEEN MEDICINE AND CIVIL LAW'. Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales, 86 :451-483. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) 'Descartes in Hebrew'. Katharsis, 30 :26-40.
    2016 Dr Amos Edelheit (2016) 'On The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Volume 10 (Liber XI)'. Renaissance quarterly, 69/4 :1416-1417.
    2015 Dr Amos Edelheit (2015) 'Pico's Concept of Philosophy'. Schifanoia, 46-47 :63-71.
    2015 Edelheit, A (2015) 'POLIZIANO AND PHILOSOPHY THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN NOTION OF THE HUMANITIES?'. Traditio, 70 :369-405. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2015 Dr Amos Edelheit (2015) 'Some Remarks on Yoav Rinon’s The Crisis in the Humanist Disciplines'. Katharsis, 23 :91-103.
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) 'On Francesco Borghesi, Michael Papio and Massimo Riva (eds.), Pico della Mirandola – Oration on the Dignity of Man. A New Translation and Commentary'. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2013 .
    2010 Dr Amos Edelheit (2010) 'On Karl A.E. Enenkel and Jan Papy (eds.), Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance. Intersections'. Scripta Classica Israelica, XXIX :144-148.
    2008 Dr Amos Edelheit (2008) 'Biblical Exegesis, Kabbalah, and Intellectual Ascent in Pico’s Heptaplus'. Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, Band 10 :339-348.
    2014 Edelheit, A (2014) 'PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN AN ORAL CULTURE: RENAISSANCE HUMANISTS AND RENAISSANCE SCHOLASTICS'. Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques, 98 :479-496. [Full-Text]
    2012 Dr Amos Edelheit (2012) 'On Conscience, Action, and Some Related Terms in Antoninus' Moral Psychology. Between Cognition and Will'. Memorie Domenicane, Memorie Domenicane :299-331.
    2012 Dr Amos Edelheit (2012) 'A Humanist Contribution to the Intellect/Will Debate in the Fifteenth-Century Florence: Alammano Donati's De intellectus voluntatisque excellentia (1482-1487)'. Bruniana & Campanelliana, XVIII/1 :103-121. [Full-Text]
    2009 Dr Amos Edelheit (2009) 'Francesco Patrizi's Two Books on Space: Geometry, Mathematics, and Dialectic Beyond Aristotelian Science'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 40 :243-257. [Full-Text]
    2008 Dr Amos Edelheit (2008) 'Human Will, Human Dignity, and Freedom: A Study of Giorgio Beningno Salviati's Early Discussion of the Will, Urbino 1474-1482'. Vivarium, 46/1 :82-114. [Full-Text]
    2007 Dr Amos Edelheit (2007) 'The Scholastic Theology of Pico della Mirandola: Between Biblical Faith and Academic Skepticism'. RECHERCHES DE THÉOLOGIE ET PHILOSOPHIE MÉDIÉVALES, LXXIV/2 :523-570. [Full-Text]
    2006 Dr Amos Edelheit (2006) 'Vincenzo Bandello, Marsilio Ficino, and the Intellect/Will Dialectic'. Rinascimento, XLVI :299-344.
    2006 Dr Amos Edelheit (2006) 'Humanism and Theology in Renaissance Florence: Four Examples (Caroli, Savonarola, Ficino, and Pico)'. Verbum Analecta Neolatina, VIII/2 :271-290. [Full-Text]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2021 Dr Amos Edelheit (2021) Book Symposium: Brian Copenhaver, Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and his Oration in Modern Memory Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Divition virtual online meeting platform, .
    2021 Dr Amos Edelheit (2021) The Scholastic Background of Marsilio Ficino Round Two Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) virtual online meeting platform, .
    2021 Dr Amos Edelheit (2021) Giovanni Caroli and the New Humanist Aesthetics Mendicants, Humanists and the Aesthetics of the civitas. Debates and Political Culture in the 14th and 15th Centuries and their Impact on Art, Architecture and Urban Space Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, .
    2021 Dr Amos Edelheit (2021) Reconstructing Pico’s Scholastic Library: What Can We Learn from the Apology? Pico’s Library Rebuilt Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII, Bologna, .
    2020 Dr Amos Edelheit (2020) The Reappearance of Metaphysics? In Search for εὐδαιμονία: Plotinus via Ficino Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Philadelphia, .
    2020 Dr Amos Edelheit (2020) Humanities in Action Minerva Humanities Center Tel-Aviv University, .
    2020 Dr Amos Edelheit (2020) Negative and Positive Curiositas in the Renaissance: A Lesson from Petrarca 42 Kölner Mediaevistentagung, on Curiositas Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, .
    2019 Dr Amos Edelheit (2019) The Renaissance as Crossroads: Padua, Paris and the Case of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Migrating Knowledge – a research group directed by Prof. Rivka Feldhay, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv University, .
    2019 Dr Amos Edelheit (2019) The Reception of εὐδαιμονία in the Renaissance: Plotinus via Ficino 31st International Conference of Philosophy on The Possibility of Eudaimonia (Happiness and Human Flourishing) in the World Today, Vouliagmeni (Athens) Athens, .
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) Pico and the Scholastics: Formation, Traces, Reception La filosofia di Giovanni Pico. Tra fonti e fortuna. Nuove perspettive storiografiche, held in the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Florence, .
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) Pico and the ‘Parisian Style’: Paris in the 1480s Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New Orleans New Orleans, .
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) The Case of Plato’s Charmides in the fifteenth century: Ficino, Poliziano and a Lesson from Bruni. Preliminary Notes International Symposium on Plato, his Dialogues and Legacy Bar-Ilan University, .
    2018 Dr Amos Edelheit (2018) Classical Scholarship and Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance Departmental seminar of the Department of Classics, Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv University, .
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) Medicine, Law and Philosophy in Padua and Florence in the 15th Century ‘The Idea, History and Institutional Foundations of Science’, Department of Philosophy, Maynooth University Maynooth University, .
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Myth of Renaissance Averroism Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Chicago Chicago, .
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) Authority and Oppression in Modern Hebrew Literature School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, the Middle East Department, the Israel Studies Seminar, University of Oxford University of Oxford, .
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) Two Approaches to Medicine and Philosophy: Nicoletto Vernia and Marsilio Ficino the Leonardo da Vinci Society Conference: Latin and the Vernacular in Fifteenth-Century Italy, held at the Warburg Institute, London Warburg Institute, London, .
    2017 Dr Amos Edelheit (2017) A Renaissance Debate on Being and One. Antonio Cittadini di Faenza against Giovanni Pico della Mirandola workshop on ‘Concepts of Essence’, Department of Philosophy, Maynooth University Maynooth University, .
    2016 Dr Amos Edelheit (2016) Nicoletto Vernia and the Division of Philosophy – Continuation and Innovation Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Boston Boston, .
    2015 Dr Amos Edelheit (2015) Respondent to Andrew Youpa’s paper ‘Spinoza’s Ethical Objectivism’, and to Susan James’ paper ‘The Basis of Community. Spinoza’s Tractatus Politicus’ Spinoza Symposiun, University College Cork University College Cork, .
    2015 Dr Amos Edelheit (2015) Bernardo Torni Between the Reception of the Calculatores in the Renaissance and the Critique of Pico Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Berlin Berlin, .
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) Pico’s Concept of Philosophy XVI settimana di alti studi rinascimentali. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e la “dignità” dell’uomo: storia e fortuna di un discorso mai pronunciato Mirandola and Ferrara, .
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) The Status of Philosophy as a Discipline in the Renaissance First Irish Early Modern Philosophy Conference, University College Cork University College Cork, .
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) Dominicans in the Renaissance St. Saviour’s Symposium St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin, .
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) Poliziano and Philosophy Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New York New York, .
    2014 Dr Amos Edelheit (2014) Pico and the New Renaissance Concept of Philosophy Genealogies of the Humanities Workshop, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University, .
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) Moral Psychology in Renaissance Philosophy: On Conscience, Will and Love 23rd World Congress of Philosophy – “Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life” Athens, .
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) Poliziano and Philosophy The Place of Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy Groningen, .
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) Philosophy and Theology in Oral Culture: Renaissance Humanists and Renaissance Scholastics Philosophie et théologie en prédication : de Thomas d’Aquin à Jean Calvin. À l’occasion de la parution de l'édition critique des Sermons de Thomas d’Aquin Paris, .
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) The Dominicans in the Italian Renaissance: Between Reform and Schism. The Case of Giovanni Caroli (1428-1503)’ Department of History, Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University, .
    2013 Dr Amos Edelheit (2013) The Status of Philosophy as a Discipline in the Renaissance Research seminar of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv University, .
    2012 Dr Amos Edelheit (2012) Lorenzo Pisano and Marsilio Ficino on Love Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Washington Washington DC, .

    Editorial

    Year Publication
    2010 Amos Edelheit (2010) Up to Date Poetry. Tel-Aviv: ED
    1995 Amos Edelheit (1995) Emda: Literary Journal, vols. 1-47 (1995-2021). Jerusalem/Tel-Aviv: ED

    Monograph:- Non Peer Reviewed

    Year Publication
    2020 Dr Amos Edelheit and Dr Chen Yesodot (2020) Humanities - The Next Generation, Or How to Make Philosophy, History & Literature Useful, Profitable & Life Changing. Tel-Aviv: MONONP
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