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Fidora Riera, Alexander
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Humanities
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Alexander Fidora, born 1975 in Offenbach (Germany), studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in 2003 at Frankfurt University. He has been Assistant professor and co-director of a research project at Frankfurt University, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2006 he accepted a position at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is also co-director of the Institute of Medieval Studies. His research focuses on intercultural and inter-religious aspects of medieval philosophy (e.g. the ERC-Research Project: "Latin Philosophy into Hebrew" http://latintohebrew.uab.es).
In 2011 he has been awarded the "Premi Internacional Catalònia" by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
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Research Interests
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Alexander Fidora is working on the interreligious dimensions of medieval Hispanic philosophy. In particular, he studies cultural contacts between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as: Reception, interpretation and transformation of philosophical and theological translations from Arabic by Jewish and Christian authors; Latin philosophy into Hebrew; Polemics, controversial theology and interreligious dialogue in the Middle Ages; and Consequences of the confrontation between the three religions of the Book for the formation of European culture.
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KeyWords
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Philosophy, Cultures and cultural diversity
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