Horst Bredekamp
An art historian and philosopher, Horst Bredekamp is professor at the Institute for the History of Art and Image at Berlin's Humboldt University and, since 2019, senior co-director of the Matters of Activity cluster of excellence. Author of numerous books and articles, he has won several awards in Germany, including the Sigmund-Freud Prize (2001).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Art historian and philosopher Horst Bredekamp reveals the importance of visual analysis and the central role of images in the development of the philosophical thought of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Relying mainly on the Leibnizian concept of the monad and on the Theater of Nature and Art, elaborated by the German philosopher and scientist from 1671 until his death, Bredekamp places Leibniz as a precursor of the theory of the image.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
