Leo Catana

Leo Catana

Associate Professor - Promotion Programme


  1. Published

    Kompendium: Filosofiske tolkninger af Biblen i den vestlige tradition (MA)

    Catana, Leo, 2006

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  2. Published

    Kompendium: Filosofiske tolkninger af Biblen i den vestlige tradition (MA)

    Catana, Leo, 2009

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  3. Published

    Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought

    Catana, Leo, 2019, Cham: Springer. 175 p. (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Vol. 227).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  4. Accepted/In press

    Leo Catana (2024). ‘The Aristotelian Strain in Modern Environmental Virtue Ethics: Some Challenges and Some Underexplored Opportunities’: Environmental Ethics

    Catana, Leo, 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Environmental Ethics.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Bruno's Spaccio and Hyginus' Poetica Astronomica'

    Catana, Leo, 2000, In: Bruniana e Campanelliana. Del 1, p. 57-77 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Changing interpretations of Plotinus: The 18th-century introduction of the concept of a ‘system of philosophy’

    Catana, Leo, 2013, In: International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. 7, 1, p. 50-98 49 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Coincidence of opposites: Cusanian and non-Cusanian interpretations in the thought of Bruno'

    Catana, Leo, 2011, In: Bruniana e Campanelliana. XVII, 2, p. 381-400 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Leo Catana, 'George Grote’s Analysis of Ancient Greek Political Thought: Its Significance to J.S. Mill’s Idea About “Active Character” in a Liberal Democracy': British Journal for the History of Philosophy

    Catana, Leo, 2019, In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 28, 3, p. 553-572 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Giordano Bruno's hermeneutics: Observations on the bible in de monade (1591)'

    Catana, Leo, 2007, The world and the world: Biblical exegesis and early modern science. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  10. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Heumann’s Dethronement of Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus and the Biographical Model for Writing the History of Philosophy'

    Catana, Leo, 2017, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing: The Tradition of Collective Biography in Early Modern Europe. Baker, P. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 337-352 16 p. (The Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 7).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Indledning'

    Catana, Leo, 2013, Marsilio Ficino, Kommentar til Platons Symposion, eller Om eros. København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 19-94 76 p. (Platonselskabets Skriftserie, Vol. 15).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy': Their Genesis and Current Relationship

    Catana, Leo, 2015, A Companion to Intellectual History. Whatmore, R. & Young, B. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 129-140 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Lovejoy’s readings of Bruno: Or how nineteenth-century history of philosophy was “transformed” into the history of ideas'

    Catana, Leo, 2010, In: Journal of the History of Ideas. 71, 1, p. 91-112 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Meanings of "contractio" in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum'

    Catana, Leo, 2002, Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 327-341 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Miklós Vassányi, Anima mundi: The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy'

    Catana, Leo, 2012, In: Intellectual History Review. 22, 2, p. 319-321 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Oplysningstiden — tolerancens tidsalder?'

    Catana, Leo, 2010, In: Kritik. 196, p. 64-77 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Philosophical problems in the history of philosophy: What are they?'

    Catana, Leo, 2013, Philosophy and its history: New essays on the methods and aims of research in the history of philosophy. Schliesser, E., Laerke, M. & E. H. Smith, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 115-133 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Readings of Platonic Virtue Theories from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance': The Case of Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

    Catana, Leo, 2014, In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 22, 4, p. 680-703 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Tannery and Duhem on the concept of a system in the history of philosophy and history of science'

    Catana, Leo, 2011, In: Intellectual History Review. 21, 4, p. 493-509 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Leo Catana, 'The Concept "System of Philosophy": The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy'

    Catana, Leo, 2005, In: History and Theory. 44, p. 72-90 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Leo Catana, 'The history of the history of philosophy, and the lost biographical tradition'

    Catana, Leo, 2012, In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 20, 3, p. 619-625 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Leo Catana, 'The origin of the division between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism'

    Catana, Leo, 2013, In: Apeiron - a Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science. 46, 2, p. 166-200 35 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Thomas Taylor as an interpreter of Plato': An epigone of Marsilio Ficino?

    Catana, Leo, 2011, In: International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. 5, 2, p. 303-312 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Leo Catana, 'Virtue Ethics and Renaissance Platonism'

    Catana, Leo, 2013, In: Bruniana & Campanelliana. XIX, 1, p. 267-268 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Leo Catana, Filosofihistorisk håndbog

    Catana, Leo, 2016

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  26. Published

    Leo Catana, Filosofihistorisk håndbog

    Catana, Leo, 2017, 126 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  27. In preparation
  28. Published

    Leo Catana, Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought

    Catana, Leo, 2017, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University. 230 p. (Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet, Vol. 74).

    Research output: Book/ReportDoctoral thesisResearch

  29. Published
  30. Published

    Leo Catana, Platon i renæssancen

    Catana, Leo, 2016, Platon - værk og virkning. Leth Fink, J. & Larsen, J. K. (eds.). Købehavn: Gyldendal, p. 477-500 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Leo Catana, Recensione: Giordano Bruno, Om årsagen, princippet og enheden

    Catana, Leo, 2001, In: Bruniana e Campanelliana. 2001, 2, p. 586-586 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Leo Catana, The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy

    Catana, Leo, 2005, Aldershot: Ashgate. 219 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Leo Catana, The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno’s Philosophy

    Catana, Leo, 2017, Paperback ed. London: Routledge. 220 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Leo Catana, The historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’: Its origin, nature, influence and legitimacy

    Catana, Leo, 2008, Leiden og Boston: Brill. 384 p. (Brill’s studies in intellectual history; No. 165).

    Research output: Book/ReportDoctoral thesisResearch

  35. Published

    Leo Catana, Thomas Taylor’s dissent from some 18th-century views on Platonic philosophy': The ethical and theological context

    Catana, Leo, 2013, In: International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. 7, 2, p. 180-220 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Leo Catana, Vico and Literary Mannerism: A Study in the Early Vico and His Idea of Rhetoric and Ingenuity

    Catana, Leo, 1999, New York: Peter Lang. 142 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Leo Catana, Vico og barokkens retorik

    Catana, Leo, 1996, København: Museum Tusculanum. 142 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    Leo Catana, ‘Doxographical or Philosophical History of Philosophy: On Michael Frede’s Precepts for Writing the History of Philosophy’

    Catana, Leo, 2016, In: History of European Ideas. 42, 2, p. 170-177 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Leo Catana, ‘Hvad kan menes med “filosofihistoriens historiografi”?’

    Catana, Leo, 2008, In: Filosofiske Studier. 24, p. 22-27 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  40. Published

    Leo Catana, ‘The exposition of Bruno in Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae’

    Catana, Leo, 2006, In: Bruniana & Campanelliana. 2/2006, p. 537-545 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Gorgias

    Catana, Leo, 2019, In: Philosophical Readings. 11, 2, p. 68-75 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. Accepted/In press

    Plato in the Renaissance

    Catana, Leo, 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Platonic Mind, eds Vasilis Politis and Peter Larsen. Routledge, 2022. Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Plato on Recognition of Political Leaders: The Importance of Mirrored Character Traits

    Catana, Leo, 2020, In: Polis. 37, 2, p. 265-289

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Recensione. Giordano Bruno: Om årsagen, princippet og enheden

    Catana, Leo, 2001, In: Bruniana & Campanelliana. Del 2, p. 586

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  45. Published

    Self-Protection and the Afterlife Myth in Plato’s Gorgias

    Catana, Leo, 2020, In: Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale. 4 (108), p. 591-607

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Plato’s Gorgias

    Catana, Leo, 2022, Habit and the History of Philosophy. Routledge, p. 13-21 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    Socrates’ Understanding of ‘Protection’ (Boētheia) in His Other-Oriented Ethics: The Case of the Athenians in Plato’s 'Apology and Gorgias’

    Catana, Leo, Apr 2023, In: Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science. 56, 2, p. 211-233

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    The Ethical Discussion about Protection (boêtheia) in Plato’s Gorgias

    Catana, Leo, 2019, In: Classical Quarterly. 68, 2, p. 425-441 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    The Histories of Philosophy, 1800-1950. Special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy

    Catana, Leo (ed.) & Lærke, M. (ed.), 2020, Routledge. (British Journal for the History of Philosophy; No. 3, Vol. 28).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    The Historiography of Philosophy, 1800-1950’. Editorial to special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy

    Catana, Leo & Lærke, M., 2020, In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 28, 3, p. 431-441 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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