Dr. Andreea Lemnaru Espuña, philosopher of religions & scholar

Dr. Andreea Lemnaru Espuña (PhD in Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne Université, Jan. 2022) is a French scholar and philosopher of religions.

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She is the principal investigator of the research project "Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism" at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Philosophy, supported by the Austrian Science Fund.

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Dr. Lemnaru Espuna specializes in the study of (Neo)Platonic philosophy, both pagan and early Christian, the Corpus Hermeticum from a philosophical approach and the Chaldean Oracles. She is also interested in comparative philosophy (western and Asian).

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She is a permanent associate member of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism (University of Cambridge), and of the Centre Léon Robin (Paris Sorbonne University). Besides, Dr. Lemnaru Espuna she is the director of the Neoplatonism and Religions research group of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (Rome).

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Dr. Lemnaru Espuña is the lead editor of Initiatic Religius Experience in Neoplatonism, co-edited with L. Albanese, J.-M. Zamora Calvo and Giuseppe Muscolino.

 

Dr. Lemnaru Espuña is an international regular speaker in world leading universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, London and Rome, fluent in French (native), English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German, with notions of Chinese.

She reads Ancient Greek and Latin, and has notions of coptic and hieroglyphic Egyptian.