Catalin Partenie

Catalin Partenie is currently a fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Catalin Partenie is the editor of Plato: Selected Myths (2004 Oxford University Press). Catalin Partenie is also the co-editor (with Tom Rockmore) of Heidegger and Plato: Towards Dialogue (2005 Northwestern University Press)

Catalin Partenie is co-editor of Plato's Complete Works in Romanian, published by Humanitas (2001). Catalin translated into Romanian Plato's Timaeus (in collaboration), Critias and Menexenus, (all published by Humanitas).

Partenie also co-edited (with Gabriel Liiceanu) Crass Metaphysical Banalities (Humanitas, 2004), a text containing the lectures of Alexandru Dragomir (a Romanian philosopher and former student of Heidegger).

Catalin is the author of a book review of Stanley Rosen's The Question of Being: A reversal of Heidegger (New Haven et London: Yale University Press, 1993), in the Revue Roumaine de Philosophie (1997)

Catalin Partenie has a BA in philosophy and history from the University of Bucharest. Catalin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Glasgow (1998), writing a thesis entitled,"Plato's Hypothetical Dialectic", a fragment of this thesis has been published online as [http://www.lett.ubbcluj.ro/~echinox/arhiva/1997_456/10.html The Socratic Locus of Certainty] .

Catalin was also H. Georgescu Graduate Student at Oxford University, and Sir Daniel Stevenson Visiting Graduate Student at Heidelberg University. Partenie has taught at the University of Quebec at Montreal and Concordia University. Catalin has held visiting research positions at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the British School of Classical Studies at Athens (where he was an Onassis Research Fellow).

2007, Catalin is a visiting fellow at an institute for advanced study in Berlin, Germany.