is Professor of Medieval, Jewish and Arabic Philosophy at the Sorbonne, and holds the Romano Guardini-Chair at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität at Munich. He translated works of Strauss and Maimonides, and is widely acknowledged for his Aristote et la question du monde. Essai sur le contexte cosmologique et anthropologique de l’ontologie (1988), Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization (2002, Fr. 1992, 1993 and 1999, translated into fourteen languages), The Wisdom of the World. The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought (2003) (Fr. 1999, 2003), Introduction au monde grec (2005), The Law of God. Philosophical history of an idea (2007, Fr. 2005) and Au moyen du Moyen Age. Philosophies médiévales en chrétienté, judaïsme et islam (2006).