Abstract

The latest scholarly contribution by Joël Biard is a monograph about the late fourteenth-/ early fifteenth-century philosopher Blasius of Parma, known above all for his heterodox materialist views. This explains his nickname, doctor dyabolicus, the evil or diabolical doctor. Blasius is no stranger to Biard, who has edited both Blasius’s works and (recently) one volume on this thinker (J. Biard and A. Robert, editors, La Philosophie de Blaise de Parme: Physique, psychologie, éthique [Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2019]). Despite a growing number of publications on Blasius by scholars focusing on different aspects of his oeuvre, we still lack a competent overview of his thought, especially one dedicated to his philosophy of... Read More.