Sergius Kodera

Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften

Austria

Radical Natural Philosophy, Politics and Culture in Late Sixteenth Century Naples. The Cases of Bernardino Telesio, Giordano Bruno, Giambattista della Porta

2005-2006

Sergius Kodera received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1994. Since then he has been teaching history of Renaissance Philosophy at the same university. Form 1994 to 1997 he was a Frances Yates and Erwin Schroedinger Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. He received his Habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2004; during this year he was research fellow at the IFK in Vienna. Kodera has published on and/or translated works by Leone Ebreo, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino and Giambattista della Porta. Currently, he is working on a book exploring the intellectual culture of late sixteenth century Naples.