June 24, 2015
Aula Savi Orto Botanico (via Porta Buozzi, 3)
9:30: Welcome Address
10-13 1st Session:
Chair: Prof. Raimondo Cubeddu
Strauss and the Problem of Retrieving Classical Thought
Prof. Philipp von Wussow (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main), Leo Strauss’s Methodology of Returning to the Ancients
Ferdinand Deanini (LMU München), The Law and the Philosopher. On Leo Strauss’s Essay “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari”
Marco Menon (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), A Lesson in Politics. Some Remarks on Strauss’s Socrates and Aristophanes
14:30-18:30 2nd Session:
Chair: Prof. Bruno Centrone
Jonas and the Ancients
Elad Lapidot (Freie Universität Berlin), Counter-histories: Gnosis, Seinsgeschichte – and the Jews
Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo (Università di Torino), The Ancient Roots and Relevance of Hans Jonas’ Idea of Responsibility
Fabio Fossa (Università di Pisa e Firenze – Zetesis), Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Temper. On the Role of Greek and Jewish Tradition in Hans Jonas’s Anthropology
Prof. Emidio Spinelli (Università La Sapienza di Roma), Hans Jonas and the ‘Multi-disciplinary’ Platonic Model of Paideia
June 25, 2015
9.30 – 13.00 3rd Session:
Aula Savi Orto Botanico (via Porta Buozzi, 3)
Chair: Prof. Emidio Spinelli
Cassirer, Strauss and Arendt on Plato
Prof. Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Melbourne), Another Plato? Cassirer’s “Eidos und Eidolon”
Prof. Alessandra Fussi (Università di Pisa – Zetesis), Philosophy as a Form of Skepticism. Leo Strauss on Plato’s Republic
Luca Timponelli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Plato, Arendt and the Condition of Politics
15.00 – 18.30 4th Session:
Aula Magna Palazzo Boileau (via S. Maria, 85)
Chair: Prof. Maurizio Alfonso Iacono
Strauss, Scholem and Löwith
Prof. Carlo Altini (Fondazione San Carlo, Modena), Strauss and Scholem: Kabbalah versus Philosophy.
Anna Romani (Università di Pisa e Firenze – Zetesis), Progress as Problem: Strauss and Löwith in Dialogue between Antiquity and Modernity
Eduardo Zazo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Löwith’s Nietzschean Return to the Ancient Conception of Nature
June 26, 2015
Aula Savi Orto Botanico (via Porta Buozzi, 3)
9.30-13.30 5th Session:
Chair: Prof. Alfredo Ferrarin
Strauss and Klein
Iacopo Chiaravalli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), The Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity as a Phenomenological Problem
Prof. David Janssens (Tilburg University), Back to the Roots. The Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Jacob Klein
Danilo Manca (Università di Pisa – Zetesis), Philosophy and its History. Klein and Strauss on the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Conclusion
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