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[Reminder] Odradek CFP: Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses

30 Tuesday May 2017

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black mood, boredom, depressione, hysteria, mal de vivre, melancholy, melancolia, melancolie, nausea, Sloth, spleen

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Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses

ODRADEK

Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

Section Editor: Valentina Serio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming fifth edition of the Journal that will deal with Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses.

 Submission deadline: 10th June 2017

Language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

The paper can be submitted online via OJS – Open Journal System:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

Authors can find submission guidelines at the following link:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

All papers will be reviewed according to our peer review process policy:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

For any further detail or information please feel free to contact the section editor at:

valentina.serio@sns.it

The problem of melancholy is at the crossroad of a variety of branches of knowledge such as, literature, medicine, fine arts, music, and psychology. Indeed, the concept of melancholy had been employed over the centuries in order to designate different states of mind along with the related somatic symptoms: black mood, Sloth, spleen, mal de vivre, boredom, nausea, hysteria and depression. The protean nature of melancholy is, in fact, the result of a long tradition of reflection on this theme that can be traced back to the Ancient Greece.

Originally, the idea of melancholy comes from ancient Greek medicine, which is based on the study of four fundamental humors (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile). According to the ancient medical tradition, the different combination of these humors is responsible for different temperaments, or dispositions, and, ultimately, for the health or the illness of human body. In this scenario, black bile – or melancholy, from ancient Greek mèlaina cholé – causes the worst physical and psychological features: ugliness, dullness, idiocy, sadness, foolishness, and so on.

This conception of melancholy as a malady survives during the Middle Age but, in addition, assumes a new religious meaning.

The Renaissance constitutes a turning point for the history of melancholy: at this point, melancholy is associated with genius. Starting from Marsilio Ficino, who retrieves and extensively recasts Aristotle’s Problemata XXXI, the melancholic humor becomes the one proper to geniuses, artists and scholars.

This idea is further developed in the Modern Age by a great number of thinkers and writers (for instance, think of Lawrence Sterne’s use of Burton’s study The Anatomy of Melancholy for justifying the setting out of his Tristram Shandy).

Between 19th and 20th centuries, some historians of art devote their studies to Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I and its legacy in the history of modern culture: think, for example, of Carl Gielhow’s Dürers Stich “Melencolia I” und der maximilianische Humanistenkreis, Heinrich Wölfflin’s Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers, and Aby Warburg’s Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten.

In this way, they initiate a new metamorphosis of the understanding of this mood, which is developed in the works of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and Julia Kristeva.

For the fifth issue of Odradek, we invite contributors to consider a specific topic among the many dimensions of melancholy, and we welcome papers of various disciplines.

In the following list, you can find some possible topics:

Melancholy and music as therapy for the illness
Melancholy, literary genres and styles
Melancholy and its religious meaning, from the sin of Sloth to despair
Melancholy and the anxieties of Modern Age
Melancholy and the nature of the artist
Melancholy in filmography
Melancholy and the Warburg Institute
Versione italiana: Melancolia. Metamorfosi dell’umor nero

La storia della melancolia è certamente una storia ricca e di lunga durata: se volessimo seguirne l’intero percorso, dovremmo indagare a fondo in diversi ambiti: dalla letteratura alla medicina, dalle arti figurative alla musica e alla psicologica.

Il lessico stesso conferma la natura proteiforme di tale soggetto mettendo in risalto tutte le possibili ramifazioni: umor nero, accidia, spleen, mal de vivre, noia, nausea, isteria e depressione.

Originariamente, il concetto di melancolia proviene dalla medicina dell’antica Grecia, basata sulla distinzione di quattro umori fondamentali (sangue, flemma, bile gialla e bile nera). La loro varia combinazione determina temperamenti diversi, così come la condizione di salute o infermità del corpo umano. La bile nera – o melancolia, dal greco mèlaina cholé – causa le peggiori caratteristiche fisiche e psicologiche: bruttezza, idiozia, tristezza, follia e via dicendo.

Tale concezione della melancolia sopravvive nel Medioevo, assumendo nuovi significati religiosi. Il Rinascimento rappresenta un punto di svolta per la storia della melancolia: partendo dalle opere di Marsilio Ficino, in cui si recupera e sviluppa il passo XXXI dei Problemata, la melancolia diviene il temperamento proprio degli uomini di genio, artisti e intellettuali. Una simile idea è poi ulteriormente sviluppata in età moderna da numerosi pensatori e scrittori (solo per citare un esempio, si pensi all’appropriazione, da parte di Lawrence Sterne, dell’Anatomia della melancolia di Burton per giustificare l’impianto del suo Tristram Shandy).

Tra XIX e XX secolo, alcuni storici dell’arte hanno dedicato le proprie ricerche alla Melancolia I di Albrecht Dürer’s e alla sua influenza nella storia della cultura moderna. Si pensi, ad esempio, a Dürers Stich “Melencolia I” und der maximilianische Humanistenkreis di Carl Gielhow, Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers di Heinrich Wölfflin, e Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten di Aby Warburg. In tal modo, essi hanno inaugurato una nuova metamorfosi nella comprensione della melancolia, che include pensatori come Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann e Samuel Beckett.

Per il quinto numero di Odradek, invitiamo gli autori interessati a considerare su un aspetto specifico dei molti possibili della storia della metamorfosi della melancolia. In particolare, apprezzeremo la capacità dell’autore di muovere fra le diverse discipline coinvolte

Di seguito alcuna lista non esaustiva dei possibili temi:

La melancolia e il suo trattamento medico attraverso la musica
Melancolia, stili e generi letterari
La melancolia e il suo significato religioso, dal peccato d’accidia alla disperazione
La melancolia e le inquietudini dell’età moderna
La melancolia e la natura dell’artista
La melancolia nella filmografia
La melancolia e il Warburg Institute

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ODRADEK CFP: Remediation: art, technology and humanity

21 Sunday May 2017

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art, augmented reality, cibernetica, cyberculture, Ester Fuoco, humanity, intermedialità, intermediality, literature, McLuhan, media, Net.art, New Media Art, nuovi media, realtà aumentata, realtà virtuale, Remediation, scrittura, technology, tecnologie digitali, Videomapping, virtuality

CALL FOR PAPERS

Remediation: art, technology and humanity

ODRADEK. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

Section Editor: Ester Fuoco (Università degli studi di Milano)

Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming fifth edition of the Journal that will deal with

Remediation: art, technology and humanity

Submission deadline: October 30, 2017

Language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

The paper can be submitted online via OJS – Open Journal System:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

Authors can find submission guidelines at the following link:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

All papers will be reviewed according to our peer review process policy:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

For any further detail or information please feel free to contact the section editor at:

fuocoester@gmail.com

 

A medium is an extension of ourselves, everything that has been created by the human being to increase their possibilities of and related to his body (action, expression, perception). The message of a medium its strictly link to the transformation that’s produced in human relationship and it’s in this aspect that can be defined that the medium is the message (McLuhan 1964).  Remediation is the representation of one medium in another and it’s the key future of new media. Combined technologies and art has redefined and deconstructed the classical paradigms of creative process and aesthetic theories.

Proposals are not limited to, but may address any of the following topics:

  • Ethic and Philosophy of cyberculture
  • New Media Aesthetic
  • Theories and conceptualizations of media in live performance
  • Historical developments and transformations of media
  • New Media Art, Videomapping and Net.art
  • Contemporary manifestations of intermediality
  • Impact of technology on changes in communication paradigms
  • Virtual and augmented reality in contemporary art
  • Technology and literature
VERSIONE ITALIANA:


Remediazione: arte, tecnologia e umanitàUn medium è “ogni estensione di noi stessi”, qualsiasi cosa l’uomo abbia inventato per estendere le possibilità – di azione, comunicazione, percezione – del suo corpo. Il messaggio di un medium o di una tecnologia è nel mutamento di proporzioni, di ritmo e di schemi che introduce nei rapporti umani in questo senso, e solo in questo senso, il medium è il messaggio (McLuhan 1964). La remediazione, la rappresentazione di un medium all’interno di un altro, è una caratteristica fondamentale dei nuovi media digitali. Le nuove tecnologie, applicate alle arti, hanno ridefinito o decostruito i paradigmi tradizionali dei processi creativi e dei canoni estetici di un’opera d’arte.

Si propongono di seguito alcuni spunti di riflessione:

–        Aspetti etici e filosofici della cultura cibernetica

–        Estetica dei nuovi media

–        Teorie e criticità delle tecnologie digitali applicate agli spettacoli dal vivo

–        Evoluzione storica dello sviluppo di nuovi media

–        New Media Art, Videomapping and net.art

–        L’Intermedialità nell’arte contemporanea

–        Impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui paradigmi sociali e della comunicazione

–        Realtà virtuale e realtà aumentata nell’arte contemporanea

–        Nuove tecnologie applicate alla scrittura

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ODRADEK CFP: Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Aby Warburg, accidia, Albrecht Durer, Anatomy of Melancholy, Aristotele, Aristotle, artist, Beckett, black humor, black mood, boredom, Burton, Carl Gielhow, depressione, filmography, fine arts, Freud, genio, genius, Heinrich Wölfflin, hysteria, isteria, Kristeva, literature, mal de vivre, Marsilio Ficino, medicine, melancholy, melancolia, music, nausea, noia, Problemata, psychology, Sloth, spleen, Sterne, temperament, Thomas Mann, Tristram Shandy, umor nero, Valentina Serio, Walter Benjamin

CALL FOR PAPERS

Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses

ODRADEK

Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

 Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

 The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

 Section Editor: Valentina Serio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

 Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming fifth edition of the Journal that will deal with Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses.

 Submission deadline: 10th June 2017

Language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

The paper can be submitted online via OJS – Open Journal System:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

 Authors can find submission guidelines at the following link:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

 All papers will be reviewed according to our peer review process policy:

http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess

For any further detail or information please feel free to contact the section editor at:

valentina.serio@sns.it

The problem of melancholy is at the crossroad of a variety of branches of knowledge such as, literature, medicine, fine arts, music, and psychology. Indeed, the concept of melancholy had been employed over the centuries in order to designate different states of mind along with the related somatic symptoms: black mood, Sloth, spleen, mal de vivre, boredom, nausea, hysteria and depression. The protean nature of melancholy is, in fact, the result of a long tradition of reflection on this theme that can be traced back to the Ancient Greece.

Originally, the idea of melancholy comes from ancient Greek medicine, which is based on the study of four fundamental humors (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile). According to the ancient medical tradition, the different combination of these humors is responsible for different temperaments, or dispositions, and, ultimately, for the health or the illness of human body. In this scenario, black bile – or melancholy, from ancient Greek mèlaina cholé – causes the worst physical and psychological features: ugliness, dullness, idiocy, sadness, foolishness, and so on.

This conception of melancholy as a malady survives during the Middle Age but, in addition, assumes a new religious meaning.

The Renaissance constitutes a turning point for the history of melancholy: at this point, melancholy is associated with genius. Starting from Marsilio Ficino, who retrieves and extensively recasts Aristotle’s Problemata XXXI, the melancholic humor becomes the one proper to geniuses, artists and scholars.

This idea is further developed in the Modern Age by a great number of thinkers and writers (for instance, think of Lawrence Sterne’s use of Burton’s study The Anatomy of Melancholy for justifying the setting out of his Tristram Shandy).

Between 19th and 20th centuries, some historians of art devote their studies to Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I and its legacy in the history of modern culture: think, for example, of Carl Gielhow’s Dürers Stich “Melencolia I” und der maximilianische Humanistenkreis, Heinrich Wölfflin’s Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers, and Aby Warburg’s Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten.

 In this way, they initiate a new metamorphosis of the understanding of this mood, which is developed in the works of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, and Julia Kristeva.

For the fifth issue of Odradek, we invite contributors to consider a specific topic among the many dimensions of melancholy, and we welcome papers of various disciplines.

In the following list, you can find some possible topics:

  • Melancholy and music as therapy for the illness
  • Melancholy, literary genres and styles
  • Melancholy and its religious meaning, from the sin of Sloth to despair
  • Melancholy and the anxieties of Modern Age
  • Melancholy and the nature of the artist
  • Melancholy in filmography
  • Melancholy and the Warburg Institute

Versione italiana: Melancolia. Metamorfosi dell’umor nero

La storia della melancolia è certamente una storia ricca e di lunga durata: se volessimo seguirne l’intero percorso, dovremmo indagare a fondo in diversi ambiti: dalla letteratura alla medicina, dalle arti figurative alla musica e alla psicologica.

Il lessico stesso conferma la natura proteiforme di tale soggetto mettendo in risalto tutte le possibili ramifazioni: umor nero, accidia, spleen, mal de vivre, noia, nausea, isteria e depressione.

Originariamente, il concetto di melancolia proviene dalla medicina dell’antica Grecia, basata sulla distinzione di quattro umori fondamentali (sangue, flemma, bile gialla e bile nera). La loro varia combinazione determina temperamenti diversi, così come la condizione di salute o infermità del corpo umano. La bile nera – o melancolia, dal greco mèlaina cholé – causa le peggiori caratteristiche fisiche e psicologiche: bruttezza, idiozia, tristezza, follia e via dicendo.

Tale concezione della melancolia sopravvive nel Medioevo, assumendo nuovi significati religiosi. Il Rinascimento rappresenta un punto di svolta per la storia della melancolia: partendo dalle opere di Marsilio Ficino, in cui si recupera e sviluppa il passo XXXI dei Problemata, la melancolia diviene il temperamento proprio degli uomini di genio, artisti e intellettuali. Una simile idea è poi ulteriormente sviluppata in età moderna da numerosi pensatori e scrittori (solo per citare un esempio, si pensi all’appropriazione, da parte di Lawrence Sterne, dell’Anatomia della melancolia di Burton per giustificare l’impianto del suo Tristram Shandy).

Tra XIX e XX secolo, alcuni storici dell’arte hanno dedicato le proprie ricerche alla Melancolia I di Albrecht Dürer’s e alla sua influenza nella storia della cultura moderna. Si pensi, ad esempio, a Dürers Stich “Melencolia I” und der maximilianische Humanistenkreis di Carl Gielhow, Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers di Heinrich Wölfflin, e Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten di Aby Warburg. In tal modo, essi hanno inaugurato una nuova metamorfosi nella comprensione della melancolia, che include pensatori come Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Mann e Samuel Beckett.

Per il quinto numero di Odradek, invitiamo gli autori interessati a considerare su un aspetto specifico dei molti possibili della storia della metamorfosi della melancolia. In particolare, apprezzeremo la capacità dell’autore di muovere fra le diverse discipline coinvolte

Di seguito alcuna lista non esaustiva dei possibili temi:

  • La melancolia e il suo trattamento medico attraverso la musica
  • Melancolia, stili e generi letterari
  • La melancolia e il suo significato religioso, dal peccato d’accidia alla disperazione
  • La melancolia e le inquietudini dell’età moderna
  • La melancolia e la natura dell’artista
  • La melancolia nella filmografia
  • La melancolia e il Warburg Institute

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CFP Emotion and Cognition

03 Friday Jun 2016

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Andrea Lavazza, behavioral economics, cognition, emotion, Hume, Kant, moral emotion, morality, neuroeconomics, neuroethics, passion, pathology, philosophy, psychology, Rivista Filosofia e Psicologia

Segnaliamo con piacere il seguente call for papers della RiFP – Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia:

 

Emotions and Cognition: Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience in Dialogue

 

What is an emotion? What is the relationship between emotion and cognition? How can one best articulate the distinction, if there is one, between cognition and emotion? What is the function of emotion with respect to cognition? And what contribution can neuroscience make to our understanding of emotions and the relationship between cognition and emotion? These are just a few of the key questions addressed by those philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists who investigate emotional experience.

RiFP – Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, with the support of SINe – Società italiana di Neuroetica e Filosofia delle Neuroscienze, seeks to promote a broad interdisciplinary discussion on these themes for the first issue in 2017. RIFP and SINe invite all scholars who wish to contribute to this discussion to send original manuscripts on the relationship between emotion and cognition, from a theoretical and/or empirical and/or historical approach. The sub-themes of the present call for papers include, but are not limited to:

 

(a) work that focuses, including from a historical perspective, on the relationship between emotions and knowledge, by defining the possible differences between, or identity of, emotional experiences and cognitive processes. The relationship between emotion and reason has a complex and well-articulated history that has developed around two main perspectives: a Humean perspective that assigns an important role to the “passions”, and a Kantian perspective that, in contrast, downplays the emotions privileging the role of “disembodied” thought. That the emotions play a fundamental role in psychic life and mental processes no matter how the latter are defined, is today considered beyond doubt. Contemporary discussion instead focusses on the nature of the relationship between emotions and cognition in various circumstances. We are especially interested in contributions which provide a diachronic perspective on contemporary research, pointing out blind spots and dead ends in the debate to date, and indicating which avenues of research have the most potential for elucidating our understanding of the interactions between emotion and cognition. We will also welcome contributions that present the most influential contemporary proposals, outlining their strengths and weaknesses in order to provide a taxonomy that helps to map out the current discussion.

 

(b) work that considers the role of emotions in the genesis and interpretation of psychological “pathology”, explicating which conditions should in fact be defined as “pathological” and which might instead be reinterpreted and re-categorized  (as “normalcy”, “anomaly”, “different cognitive style”). In particular, we welcome contributions which offer new interpretive perspectives on emotional dysfunction and the various kinds of therapeutic modalities for the treatment of dysfunction.

 

(c) work that explores neurophysiological aspects of emotional experiences, focusing on the central role of the limbic system in producing the emotional experience that structures the behavior of the individual. Both from a neurobiological and a theoretical-interpretative point of view, the properties of the limbic system have received increasing attention leading to modifications in descriptions of this system in current research. Contributions that provide up to date information on current research and debates in this area are especially welcome.

 

(d) work investigating the connection between morals and emotions, focusing in particular on the links between research in ethics and cognitive neuroscience, which demonstrate that both descriptive and normative theories can and must (or, vice versa, cannot and must not) take into consideration and incorporate  new findings related to the role of brain functions in judgements and behaviors.

 

(e) work in behavioral economics and neuroeconomics that highlights the complementary and/or antagonistic role(s) of emotion and cognition in decision making. Only several decades ago, economics, considered as an autonomous discipline, tended to reduce decision making to a function based on the simple maximization of individual utility.

 

Manuscript preparation and submission

Manuscripts should not exceed 9,000 words (including footnotes) and must be submitted through the online submission procedure available on the journal internet site by September 30th, 2016.

Manuscripts written in Italian or English will be considered for publication. An English abstract of max. 150 words and 5 English key-words must be provided. Please, insert the code “Emotion&Cognition2016” in the box “Communications to the Editor” in the online submission form (step 1). Two separate documents should be submitted. The first document must be anonymous and contain only the manuscript and abstract without any identifying information about the author(s). A second document (called “supplementary file”) must be submitted separately (step 3) and include pictures, tabs, title, abstract, the whole manuscript as well as author(s)’ name, affiliation, e-mail, and surface postal address.

After a preliminary assessment by the Editorial Board, submissions undergo a double–blind peer review process. For instructions on how to prepare the manuscript, click on the link “How to ensure a blind review” available on the internet site. The decision will be communicated to the authors within 6 weeks after submission. After manuscript acceptance, an authors’ guideline will be provided to copyedit the final version of the manuscripts.

For further information please email Andrea Lavazza: lavazza67@gmail.com

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Extended Deadline CFP: “Like a novel”: Crossing Perspectives between Knowing, Story and Digression

22 Sunday May 2016

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Alessandra Sarchi, Alessandro Cinquegrani, cfp, Davide Bondì, Emmanuelle Danblon, encyclopaedia, fictional way of knowing, History, Knowledge, Matteo Bensi, Matteo Marcheschi, novel, Paolo Rossi, rhetoric, science

CALL FOR PAPER

Like a novel:
crossing perspectives between knowing,
story and digression

New deadline: 15th July 2016.

Editors: Matteo Bensi (matteobensi@gmail.com)
Matteo Marcheschi (marcheschimatteo@gmail.com)

How is it configured and what is nowadays the relationship among novel, story and knowing? What are the conditions, the access paths and starting points of scientific, historical and philosophical research? Which are those of the novel? How are novel and philosophy intertwined, not outwardly but theoretically,? And what about romance and history, novel and epistemological reflection?

The purpose of this issue is to investigate the ways of addressing the problem of the relationship between narration, truth and fiction in the novel, in historical research, in philosophy and in science.

Other questions are the following: What would be the differences between a novel and a scientific paper? What kind of narrative models are available to the historian or to the scientist? What is the cognitive effect for the researcher and for the narrator stemming from the choice of one or the other model?

The problem to be solved is still to find a way to the universal, to a temporary synthesis, hard to get to without recasting the relationship and the interaction between the true, the false and the fiction (Ginzburg, Mazzarella). The path of scientific research is not very different from that of the novelist, littered as it is of false and fake, fragments, traces and spies (Ginzburg); all these elements are all seemingly insignificant details, but they are often able to open new scenarios and perspicuous representations (Wittgenstein), they set generalizations that do not lose the concreteness of their starting point. The universal element to explore appears more similar to the part for the whole than to the whole for one of its parts.

Against such background, the third issue of Odradek aims to question the possibility that the study of the novel, of its means and its techniques, could provide an easy way to answer the questions posed above: if the meta-narration – the auto-reflection of novel itself on its knowing status – it is not only a characteristic of postmodern narrative, but a constitutive element of the novel tout court (Shklovkij, Bachtin), then the possibility of an inquiry on the “novel” as a “a way of knowing” is open.

This call encourages papers focusing on the question of the poetic origin of the novel by adopting a multidisciplinary perspective: at issue will be not only a historical reconstruction of the genesis of the novel, but an investigation into its theoretical value, into the contribution novel gives, can give and has given to philosophical, artistic, historical and scientific knowledge.

Influenced by the Nietzschen genealogical critique of the truth, the 20th century thought has questioned the possibility of a form of human knowledge characterized by clarity and certainty. The boundaries between subject and object, observer and observed object, cause and effect have become blurred. This leads to reaffirm the value of the cognitive processes by analyzing the detriment of their outcome. The 20th-century novel sees the affirmation of metaphors and rhetoric at the expense of rigorous logical argumentation.

In light of this, 20th-century epistemology reflected on the constitutive role of metaphors in scientific thought (T.S. Kuhn) and on that of autobiographical stories in the biological constitution of living (Gould; Bocchi-Ceruti); history, even without coming to the radical conclusions of Metahistory (H. White), has tried to stage the image of its gears, by emphasizing the traits of a study made of detours, blocked roads, prejudices and errors (Ginzburg and Prosperi); fiction revealed its genetic processes, combining and messing up, in the manner of Borges and Calvino.

Moreover, by recognizing themselves in the dizzying analogy of truth and fiction (Diderot), the different fields of knowledge had to deal with what really owns the novel: the power to create knowledge avoiding the coarse mesh of true and false, by ranking instead in terms of what is neither true nor false but plausible (Halliwell).

In this perspective, the novel ceases to be placed on the ground of absolute otherness in comparison to higher knowledge, patching up a wound that the history of philosophy has always sought to heal and, at the same time, to reproduce. Thus, one can bring forward the hypothesis that narration and philosophical inquiry are getting closer when knowledge has made itself rhetorical and logological knowing (Cassin). Such knowing would be human because of its restless, always reversible and temporary, provincial (local) and atmospheric way of being (Ortega y Gasset; Mazzoni), able to catch a glimpse of the universal in the particular (Auerbach).

We feel the philosophical necessity, on the basis of studies of Perelman, Garin and Fumaroli among others, that history and philosophy, science and literature, focus on their possible poetic (Vico) and artisanal (Sennett) origins – plausible and always changing – by investigating their proximity to the novel as a form of knowledge.

Starting from the perhaps fictional nature of human knowledge, we propose to investigate the encyclopaedic character of this knowledge.

In the manner of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, human knowledge is made of rewritings – translations and betrayals (Kundera) – and narrations that accompany the main story, subverting the order of what is a priority and what is not. Details become a fruitful path of research, now dead end. Nevertheless, they provide a clear picture of a knowledge always referring to something else, .for proximity and morphological distance (Goethe, Wittgenstein). The final result is that the detail, the individual, the fictional, are the only point of view suitable for generalisation.

The topics of the issue may include, but are not limited to:

  1. The origins of the novel: the fictional way of knowing
  2. Novel and History: debts, contamination and epistemological proximity
  3. Fiction and science: a cognitive proximity
  4. Novel and rhetoric: proximity and theoretical distances
  5. Novel and fiction: the work questioning the genre, the genre shining through the work
  6. Knowledge, novel and encyclopaedia
  7. Concept-interpretation and representation (mimesis), the representation-interpretation (mimesis) of the concept
  8. Like a novel: the whole emerging from the detail; or the possibility of telling the general by starting from the particular

 

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