Catalin PARTENIE
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EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Glasgow
1993-94 Sir Daniel Stevenson Visiting Graduate Student, University of Heidelberg
1990-91 Horia Georgescu Visiting Graduate Student, University of Oxford
1986 BA (Philosophy and History), University of Bucharest
MEMBERSHIP
American Philosophical Association
British School of Classical Studies at Athens
International Association of Greek Philosophy
Fellows Association of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
International Plato Society
American Political Sciences Association
Romanian Society of Phenomenology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2001- Professeur Associé, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal
2005- Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciencess, National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest
2003-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Sciencess, National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest
2001-2003 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal
1999-2001 UQAM Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal
1998-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, National Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest
1996-1997 Visiting Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
1992-1993 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow
VISITING POSITIONS
2007-2008 Associate Member, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2004 Visiting Fellow, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
2004 Visiting Fellow, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
2000 Onassis Fellow, British School of Classical Studies at Athens
1999 TRIAS Visiting Fellow, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
1997 Visiting Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Ancient Greek Philosophy, especially Early Greek Philosophy, Plato; Contemporary Continental Philosophy, especially Heidegger
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2007 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2004 Cambridge Colleges’ Hospitality Fellowship, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
2004 Summer University Fellowship, Central European University, Budapest
2004 Research Fellowship, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
1999-2001 UQAM Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal
2000 Onassis Fellowship, British School of Classical Studies at Athens
1999 Visiting Research Fellowship, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
1997 Research Fellowship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
1994-1995 Sir Daniel Stevenson Scholarship, University of Heidelberg
1991-1994 University of Glasgow Doctoral Scholarship, Glasgow
1991-1993 Overseas Research Student Award, awarded by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
1993 Research Fellowship, The Hastings Center, New York
1993 Goethe Institute Scholarship, awarded by the Goethe Institute at Glasgow and the German Cultural Institute in Scotland
1993 Research Fellowship, the Centre for Philosophy and Health Care, University of Wales at Swansea, UK
1990-1991 Horia Georgescu Scholarship, New College, University of Oxford
1990 Oxford Colleges Hospitality Fellowship, Trinity College, Oxford
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Unless otherwise noted all publications are in English
Edited Books
Plato’s Myths, edited by C. Partenie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008), xx + 320 pp (cloth)
Plato: Selected Myths (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xxxviii + 166 pp. (paperback)
[Reviews: M. O’Brien, The Independent on Sunday, 23 January 2005; M. King, The European Legacy, vol. 11, 2006, 102-103; L. Borsic, Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, III, 1 2006, 143-146; A. Bereschi, Ch?ra. Revue d’études anciennes et médievales, 3-4, 2006, 467-469]
Heidegger and Plato: Towards Dialogue, edited with Tom Rockmore (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2005), xxviii + 234 pp. (hardback and paperback editions published concurrently)
[Reviews: Megan Halteman Zwart, in Journal of the Plato International Society 6, 2006; Catherine Zuckert, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2006; D. C. Lindenmuth, The Review of Metaphysics, December 2006]
Platon. Studii, note, indice, bibliografie [Plato. Studies, Notes, Index, Bibliography, in Romanian], edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie (Bucharest: Humanitas, forthcoming 2007).
Editions
Platon. Timaios-Critias, bilingual edition (Greek-Romanian), Greek text established by John Burnet (OCT), translation [into Romanian], introduction, notes and bibliography by P. Cretia and C. D. Partenie, with a study by Myles Burnyeat (Humanitas: Bucharest, forthcoming 2008)
Platon. Opere complete [Plato’s Complete Works, in Romanian], edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie (Bucharest: Humanitas) (paperback edition)
Vol. I (2001), 570 pp. (early dialogues down to the Protagoras)
Vol. II (2002), 417 pp. (Menexenus, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Cratylus, Phaedrus)
Vol. IV (2004), 412 pp. (Sophist, Politicus, Philebus, Timaeus, Critias)
Vol. III (forthcoming 2008) (Republic, Parmenides, Theaetetus)
Vol. V (forthcoming 2009) (Laws, Letters)
[Reviews (in English): T. Popa, in Plato. The Journal of the International Plato Society, 2, 2002]
Aristotle, Protrepticus, bilingual edition (Greek-Romanian), Greek text established by Ingemar Düring, translation [into Romanian], introduction, notes and bibliography by B. Minca and C. D. Partenie (Humanitas: Bucharest, 2005), xxxviii + 156 pp. (paperback)
Alexandru Dragomir, Crase banalitati metafizice [Utter Metaphysical Banalities, in Romanian], lectures reconstructed and edited by G. Liiceanu and C. D. Partenie (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2004), lxxiii + 258 pp. (paperback)
Translations:
Utter Metaphysical Banalities, translated from the Romanian into English by James Brown (New York and Budapest: Central University Press, forthcoming)
Crasses banalités métaphysiques, traduit du roumain par Michelle
Dobré (Paris: Vrin, Paris, à paraitre)
Alexandru Dragomir, Caietele timpului [The Time Notebooks, in Romanian], edited by B.Minca and C. D. Partenie (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2006), 433 pp. (paperback)
Translations: Chronos, übersetzt von Eveline Cioflec (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, voraussichtliches Erscheinungsdatum 2008)
Les cahiers du temps, traduit du roumain par Romain Otal (en preparation)
Debra Nails, Oamenii lui Platon [The People of Plato], translated from the English into Romanian by C. O. Tabarcea, edited by C. D. Partenie, P. Balogh and A. Litu, with a Foreword by Zoe Petre (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007)
Articles and book chapters
‘On Plato’s Myths’, in Plato’s Myths, edited by C. Partenie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008).
‘Doing Philosophy behind the Iron Curtain’, in Michael Chase and Michael McGhee eds., Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2008).
‘Heidegger’s Plato: An Introduction’, co-authored with Tom Rockmore, in C. Partenie and T. Rockmore, eds., Heidegger and Plato: Towards Dialogue (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2005), xix-xxviii.
‘Imprint: Heidegger’s Interpretation of Platonic Dialectic in the Sophist Lectures (1924-25)’, in C. Partenie and T. Rockmore, eds., Heidegger and Plato: Towards Dialogue (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2005), 42-71.
‘On Aristotle’s Protrepticus’, in Aristotle, Protrepticus, bilingual edition (Greek-Romanian), Greek text established by Ingemar Düring, translation [into Romanian], introduction, notes and bibliography by B. Minca and C. D. Partenie (Humanitas: Bucharest, 2005), ix-xxxviii.
‘Introduction to Plato’s Myths’, co-authored with Luc Brisson and John Dillon, in C. Partenie, ed., Plato: Selected Myths (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xiii-xxx.
‘Archives relief’, in The Ocean of Forgetting, a special issue of Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. IV, 3-4 (2004), 91-102. Romanian translation in Idei in dialog, 3 (2004), 35-38.
‘Plato on Afterlife’, New Europe Institute for Advanced Study Yearbook 1996-1997 (2000), 239-259.
‘The Museum and the Locus of Art’, Text (Stuttgart, Germany), 1 (1999), 51-4.
‘The Productionist Framework of the Timaeus’, Dionysius (Halifax, Canada), 16 (1998), 29-34.
‘On Plato’s Timaeus and Critias’ [in Romanian], in Platon. Opere [Plato. Works], vol. VII, edited by P, Cretia (Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica, 1993), 107-130
Reprinted in: Platon. Studii, note, indice, bibliografie [Plato. Studies, Notes, Index, Bibliography, in Romanian], edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie (Bucharest: Humanitas, forthcoming 2007).
‘The Platonic Exegesis in the XXth Century’ [in Romanian], Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 2 (1991), 49-54.
Encyclopaedia articles
‘Emil Cioran (1911-1995)’, in Edward Craig, general editor, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online 2.0 (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).
‘Plato, Timaeus and Critias [in Romanian], in Dictionar de texte politice fundamentale [Dictionary of Fundamental Political Writings], L. Stefan, ed. (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000), 324-328.
Scholarly Book Reviews
Stanley Rosen, The Question of Being. A Reversal of Heidegger (New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1993), in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 41 (1997), 203-211
Other Scholarly and Popular Publications
'The Strangeness of Philosophy’, Idei in dialog 6 (2006), 32-36.
‘Hirst’s Pharmacy and Aristotle’s Protrepticus’ [in Romanian], Idei in dialog 12 (2005), 26-27.
‘The Socratic Locus of Certainty’, Echinox (Cluj), 4 (1997), 34-40.
TRANSLATIONS
From the Greek into Romanian
Aristotle, Protrepticus (with B.Minca) (Humanitas: Bucharest, 2005)
Plato, Menexenus, in Platon. Opere complete [Plato’s Complete Works], vol. II, edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie, (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002)
Plato, Timaeus (with P. Cretia), Critias, in Platon. Opere [Plato. Works], vol. VII, edited by P, Cretia (Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica, 1993)
Reprinted in:
Platon. Opere complete [Plato’s Complete Works], vol. IV, edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie, (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2004); and
Platon. Timaios-Critias, bilingual edition (Greek-Romanian) (Bucharest: Humanitas, forthcoming 2008)
Revision of existing Romanian translations
Plato, Cratylus, translated by Simina Noica, rev. by C. Enache and C. D. Partenie; and Sophist, translated by C.Noica, rev. by C. D. Partenie, in Platon. Opere complete [Plato’s Complete Works], edited by P. Cretia, C. Noica and C. D. Partenie, (Bucharest: Humanitas), vol. II (2002) and IV (2004).
From the English into Romanian
Ludwig Wittgenstein, A Lecture on Ethics, Secolul XX, 1-3, 1997, 84-92
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
2006 ‘Myth in the Timaeus’, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
‘Les mythes de Platon’, UPR 76, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
2005 ‘Philosophy and Imagination in Plato’s Timaeus’, Plato’s Myths. An International Conference, Central European University, Budapest
2004 ‘The Myth of Prometheus’, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin
2003 ‘Plato’s Method of Hypothesis’, Montreal Inter-University Seminar on History and Philosophy of Sciences
2002 ‘The Public Understanding of Philosophy: Heidegger’s Case’, Concordia University, Montreal
2001 ‘Plato’s Dialectic Revisited’, Department of Philosophy, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario
2000 ‘La vérité de Socrate et la nôtre’, Congrès Annuel de la Societe de Philosophie du Québec
‘Plato’s Notion of Agreement’, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
1999 ‘Dialectique, vérité et intersubjectivité chez Platon’, Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal
‘Platonic Immortality Revisited’, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
