Simone Zurbuchen

b. 1960

Nationality: German

Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond

Simone Zurbuchen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Zurbuchen is the author of Naturrecht und natürliche Religion. Zur Geschichte des Toleranzbegriffs von Samuel Pufendorf bis Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Natural Law and Natural Religion. On the Concept of Toleration from Samuel Pufendorf to Jean-Jacques Rousseau), 1991, a major work in its field. She has also published several articles on eighteenth-century philosophy, politics, and religion, and is the author of a major chapter on religion and society in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (forthcoming).

• Editor: The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented
• Editor: Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion, in Reference to Civil Society