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ODRADEK CFP: Melancholy: black humor and its metamorphoses

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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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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CFA: Emotions and Conflict

21 Monday Sep 2015

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Alessandra Fussi, anger, Anthony Hatzimoysis, Aristotle, compassion, conflict, disgust, Edward Harcourt, emotions, emulation, enmity, envy, European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, forgiveness, hatred, History of Emotions, humiliation, indignation, Phenomenology of Emotions, pity, respect, war

Emotions and Conflict

3-5 February 2016

Call for Abstracts

Abstracts are invited for a philosophical workshop on the theme of Emotions and Conflict.cfa_EmotionsConflict
The workshop will take place at the University of Pisa, as a joint collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Group on Phenomenology and History of Emotions (funded by the University of Pisa, PRA 2015), the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE), and with the organizing support offered by the research group Zetesis (University of Pisa).

The workshop will start on Wednesday, 3rd February 2016 at 2.00 pm and will conclude on Friday, 5th February, at 6.00 pm.

The number of participants will be limited to 15 people.LOGOuniPISA

Abstracts should not exceed 1000 words. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review. Abstracts may be submitted the following link.

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2015
Acceptance Notification Date: 1 December 2015

Inquiries may be directed at first to the local organizer Alessandra Fussi (alessandra.fussi@unipi.it)

Aims & Topics
The workshop aims at discussing the theoretical, practical and historical aspects involved in emotions prominent in situations of enmity, conflict and war.

Aristotle formalized the competitive emotions as a system of opposite states, which included anger, hatred, indignation, envy, emulation, pity. However, it is questionable whether situations of conflict involve opposite emotions. Furthermore, it is worth considering how private and public conflicts evoke emotions such as disgust and humiliation, which came to the forefront of philosophical inquiry in the 20th century. From the point of view of the resolution of internal (intra-psychic and private) and external (interpersonal and public) situations of conflict, the workshop will discuss the role of compassion, respect and forgiveness.

Contributions to the workshop will consider conflicting emotions, as well as emotions in situations of conflict. Papers can address the nature and history of specific emotions, the role of emotional clusters, the role of collective emotions in fueling, maintaining and resolving conflicts. The perspective can be methodological, conceptual, ethical, political, or cultural.

Workshop Organizing Committee

Alessandra Fussi (University of Pisa), Edward Harcourt (University of Oxford), Anthony Hatzimoysis (University of Athens)

For more information about the Workshop and related Activities of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, please visit the website: http://navotnaor.wix.com/epsse

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CFP: ODRADEK, vol. I, no. 2: The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy

13 Sunday Sep 2015

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Aristotle, Borges, Dante, dichtende Vernunft, imagination, intellectual poetry, Leo Strauss, Leopardi, logos, Metaphernbildung, myth, Nietzsche, Omero, philosophy of literature, philosophy of poetry, Plato, politics, prose, Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy, Rancière, rhetoric, Schiller, Schlegel, sentimental poetry, Shakespeare, style of philosophy, thought, transcendental poetry, Valéry

Siamo lieti di annunciare l’uscita della call for paper per il secondo numero di Odradek, che sarà dedicato al tema “The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy” e curato da Danilo Manca e Alessandra Aloisi.

Submission open: 13th September 2015

Submission deadline: 15th December 2015

Call for papers

 The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy

Editors: Danilo Manca and Alessandra Aloisi

 

When in Book Ten of The Republic Plato proscribes poetry from the city and refers to a long-standing quarrel between poetry and philosophy, he raises an issue that has since made its mark in the history of Western thought. The aim of this call for papers is to delve deeper into the original meaning of this quarrel, to evaluate the implications it has had for the Western way of thinking and writing, and to explore the different forms the quarrel has assumed, between poetry and philosophy, between literature and philosophy.

Plato’s treatment of poetry looks as resolute as ambiguous. Plato claims that the mimetic art is essentially an imitation of imitation. Accordingly, the work of art is a mere copy of the ideal model that nature already reproduces. Art is therefore seen as twofold far from the truth, whereas philosophy is the love for truth. Nevertheless, this does not hinder Plato from expressing his philosophical arguments by means of dialogues and myths. Could this ambiguity be solved? Is poetry, in Plato’s view, just an extrinsic aspect that the philosopher has at disposal to have a talk with the ordinary people, namely with the men who are still in the cave? Or, rather, is poetry a fundamental dimension belonging to philosophy itself?

Throughout history of Western thought many thinkers took a position on the Quarrel. For instance, Hegel claimed that Plato’s mode of representation belongs to an earlier stage of the concept’s development. By contrast, by employing the notions of “dichtende Vernunft” and “dichtende Denken” respectively, Nietzsche and Heidegger endorsed the idea that philosophy is essentially connected with the poetic production, that is with Metaphernbildung. Another way of understanding the Quarrel is to consider philosophy one of the tools the poet and the writer employ in order to reflect upon their artistic activity. Philosophy plays an important role in the compositional activity of the poet: such role would consist in making possible a meta-literature, that is, a poetry whose point at issue is its own nature. Examples of this are Schiller’s “sentimental poetry”, Schlegel’s “transcendental poetry”, and Borges’s “intellectual poetry”.

Thus, what is at stake in the quarrel between poetry and philosophy is the distinction between myths and logos, thinking in images and thinking in concepts, between the picturing and the inferential arguing, between the imitation of and the reflection upon reality.

To what extent could the poet’s activity be distinguished from the philosopher’s one? To put it in Aristotle’s terms, what does it mean to say that poetry is more philosophical than history because it deals with the universals? And, consequently, what is the relationship between the universals used by philosophy and the ones used by poetry?

In Phaedo, Socrates admits to have often been suggested in dreams to cultivate the art of the Muses. Even though he had always taken it to be an exhortation to do philosophy, only at the end of his life he understands that he was required «to compose myths, not simply to elaborate arguments». On a similar note is Giacomo Leopardi who claims that the greatest poets are also philosophers (e.g. Omero, Dante and Shakespeare) and that the greatest philosophers are poets (e.g. Plato), since imagination is an essential component of poetry as well as of philosophy.

Thus, if poetry and philosophy are activities that stand on the same footing, one may argue that Plato’s thesis against art and poetry, far from dealing with the problem of truth and its representation, has nothing but a political meaning.

By banishing poetry from the polis that is ruled according to philosophical principles, Plato was trying to prevent a free circulation of words and discourses that may divert bodies from their social and intellectual destination. As Jacques Rancière would put it, the reason why Plato himself told stories and invented myths was to justify a hierarchical order and to provide a foundation for a distribution of knowledge and positions which has no foundation itself. From this point of view, the “ancient quarrel” between poetry and philosophy, between falsehood and truth, appears to be nothing but the expression of the never-ending quarrel between equality and inequality, between democracy and hierarchical order. Not differently from philosophy, poetry is a way of using language and of “making” the truth; in other words, a way of thinking and of organizing reality that can rival the one that philosophy promotes.

Consider otherwise the political issue in Strauss’s terms: the genuine quarrel between philosophy and poetry is not concerned with “the worth of poetry” as such, but with the order in which philosophy and poetry should be ranked. According to Socrates, poetry is legitimate only as ministerial to the user par excellence, namely to the king who is a philosopher, and not as an autonomous enterprise. In this sense, the greatest example of ministerial poetry would be the Platonic dialogue because of its capacity to present the non-philosophical life as ministerial to the philosophical one.

The topic of the proposals might include, but need not to be restricted to:

  1. Any philosophical and/or poetic experience which has nourished and/or questioned the distinction between imagination and thought, myths and logos, and so on.
  2. The problem of the style of philosophy and the role of rhetoric in philosophy
  3. Limits and potentialities of a philosophy of poetry
  4. Features of a literature aiming to be philosophical
  5. Any political aspects entailed in the Quarrel.
  6. The distinction between verse and prose as decisive or not to distinguish poetry from philosophy.

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

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

 

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CFA for International Conference

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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adorno, Aristotle, criticism of dialectic, Desire, dialectics, dialettica, dialettica aristotelica, dialettica speculativa, ends of reason, Eros, filosofia storico-materialistica, fini della ragione, Freud, Intellect, intelletto, io razionale, just life, Kant, Materialism, metapsicologia, Metapsychology, Nietzsche, Nous, organismo, Plato, pulsione, reason, Speculativ Dialectic, teleologia, Teleology, theory of reason, Thinking

 

International Conference organized by Zetesis Research Group

DIALECTIC AND THE ENDS OF REASON

Pisa, June 2016

 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

 

Dialectic seems to have disappeared from the contemporary philosophical debate. Indeed, the various aspects of its past fortune – the theory of becoming, the central role of negativity in thought and reality, the critique of abstract negation and of rigid dualisms in every field of knowledge and praxis, a dynamic and developmental view of reason – have all been replaced or transfigured by alternative epistemologies, from time to time: philosophy of difference, hermeneutical movement, positivism, pragmatism, theories of complexity, phenomenology, biopolitics.

At the same time, an instrumental view of reason seems to have emerged and to have imposed itself: reason is generally conceived as a tool on behalf of independent ends and judgments. Other faculties and needs – be they individual or social – impose their own legislation upon it. According to such an instrumental paradigm, reason is the mere spectator of an activity taking place in other dimensions: sensation, passion, revelation, tradition, political authority, as well as life, history or language. By being useful only to the purpose of a confirmation of the formal coherence of propositions and interpretations, reason lacks all autonomous vocation or grip on the world.

In light of such a scenario, the conference brings forward the hypothesis that the possibility of a different conception of reason is historically and theoretically bound to the possibility of dialectics. From a dialectical point of view, reason has indeed its own interests, needs and manifestation powers, revealing itself through its cognitive and self-structuring attitude. According to this view, reason is not just a calculating tool led by external forces but moves itself by its internal ways of being and realization: dialectical reason is active by itself, and its goals are expressions of its own living interests.

The conference aims at rethinking and bringing back to the agenda the bond between reason and dialectic, between a thought able to measure up to contradiction and reason as an autonomous and free reality.

The topics of the papers might include, but need not be restricted to:

  1. The Relationship between Eros and Intellect in Plato
  2. The Scientific Status of Dialectic in Aristotle
  3. Kant’s Teleological Conception of Reason and its Dialectical Tendency
  4. Hegel’s Speculative Dialectic
  5. The Realization of Reason in Historical-Materialistic Philosophy
  6. The Dialectic of Drive and Rational Ego in Nietzsche and in Freudian Metapsychology
  7. Thinking, Desire and Just Life in Adorno
  8. 19th and 20th centuries’ criticisms to dialectic from the perspective of the theory of reason

The organizers strongly encourage the proposals of comparison between different authors of the dialectical tradition, as well as the attempts – aware of past criticisms and contemporary resistance – at a global redefinition and defense of the bond between dialectic and reason; thematic contributions on single concepts and authors will nevertheless be taken into consideration.

The official Advisory Committee of the Conference will be communicated in a later rejoinder of the call, as will be the dates. Submissions should be suitable for blind refereeing and consist of:

  1. An extended abstract of 600-800 words to be sent in pdf format to zetesis@unipi.it by March 1, 2016.
  2. A separate cover sheet including name, title of paper, affiliation, email address and contact details.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March. Contributions should be suitable for 30 minutes talk and can be submitted in English, Italian, German, French; however, all the non-English speaking contributors will have to supply a long abstract of their paper in English (no less than 1300 words).

 

For further information please write to zetesis@unipi.it

 

Conferenza internazionale organizzata da Zetesis Research Group

LA DIALETTICA E I FINI DELLA RAGIONE

Pisa, giugno 2016

 

 

Descrizione del programma

La dialettica sembra scomparsa dal dibattito filosofico contemporaneo. Teoria del divenire, ruolo centrale della negatività, fecondità della contraddizione, critica della negazione astratta e delle opposizioni rigide in tutti i campi del sapere e della pratica, visione dinamica ed evolutiva della ragione e dei contenuti concettuali: tutte le questioni che ne hanno sancito la fortuna sono state eclissate oppure trasfigurate da strategie epistemiche alternative, dalle filosofie della differenza all’ermeneutica, dal positivismo al pragmatismo e alle teorie della complessità, dalla fenomenologia alla biopolitica.

Parallelamente, sembra essersi saldamente affermata un’immagine strumentale della ragione: al servizio di scopi, valutazioni o modi di espressione imposti da altre facoltà o disposizioni della vita individuale e associata. Le sensazioni, le passioni, la rivelazione, la tradizione, l’autorità politica, e così la vita, la storia e il linguaggio: di fronte al primato motivazionale e conoscitivo di dimensioni esterne, la ragione si riduce a spettatrice disinteressata. In tal modo, utile solo per vagliare la coerenza formale degli assunti, dei propositi, delle autodescrizioni o delle interpretazioni, essa appare priva di autonoma vocazione e presa sul mondo.

L’ipotesi-guida del convegno è che, di fronte a un tale scenario, la possibilità di una concezione differente della ragione sia legata da un nesso centrale, storico e teorico, alla possibilità della dialettica.

Nella prospettiva della dialettica, la ragione non è infatti soltanto un dispositivo di calcolo, ma ha interessi propri, bisogni e poteri specifici di manifestazione, un’autonoma intenzionalità, una propensione conoscitiva e strutturante. Conseguentemente, il suo movimento non le è imposto da altro, ma è interno alla sua maniera di essere e di estrinsecarsi nel reale: la ragione dialettica è attiva da sé stessa, e i suoi scopi sono espressioni degli interessi che la animano

Il convegno si propone di ripensare e di riportare all’ordine del giorno questo nodo tra la negatività dialettica, tra un pensiero capace di misurarsi con la contraddizione, e la ragione in quanto realtà libera e autonoma, spinta da propri bisogni, interessi e fini.

La seguente lista fornisce alcuni possibili direzioni tematiche:

  1. Il rapporto platonico tra eros e intelletto
  2. lo statuto scientifico della dialettica aristotelica
  3. la concezione kantiana della ragione come organismo e della sua tendenza dialettica
  4. la dialettica speculativa hegeliana
  5. il problema della realizzazione della ragione nella filosofia storico-materialistica
  6. la dialettica dell’io razionale e delle sue origini pulsionali in Nietzsche e nella metapsicologia freudiana
  7. la connessione adorniana tra pensiero, desiderio e vita giusta
  8. le critiche otto e novecentesche alla dialettica dal punto di vista della teoria della ragione

Il convegno sollecita interventi su questi e altri temi analoghi, nonché contributi analitici su singoli concetti e problemi della tradizione dialettica, senza preliminari chiusure specialistiche. Sono infatti particolarmente benaccetti i confronti tra autori diversi e le proposte, anche coraggiose, di interpretazione complessiva e di riproposizione originale – consapevole delle critiche passate e delle contemporanee resistenze – del rapporto tra dialettica e ragione.

La commissione esaminatrice del Convegno sarà resa nota successivamente, così come le date esatte. Le proposte dovranno essere adeguate per la revisione cieca e saranno inviate nella seguente forma:

  1. Un abstract esteso di 600-800 parole, da inviarsi in formato pdf a zetesis@unipi.it entro il 1 Marzo 2016.
  1. Un file separato contenente il nome, il titolo del paper, l’affiliazione, l’indirizzo email e i contatti del contributore.

La notifica di accettazione sarà data non più tardi della fine di Marzo. I contributi potranno essere in Inglese, Italiano, Tedesco, Francese; coloro che non intendono parlare in Inglese, tuttavia, dovranno inviare un lungo abstract in Inglese del proprio intervento (almeno 1300 parole).

Per ulteriori informazioni, scrivere all’indirizzo zetesis@unipi.it

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Conference: The Wisdom of the Ancients

20 Saturday Jun 2015

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Alessandra Fussi, Alfredo Ferrarin, Ancient Philosophy, Andrew Benjamin, Anna Romani, Antiquity, Antropology, Aristofane, Aristophanes, Aristotele, Aristotle, Bruno Centrone, Carlo Altini, Conception of Nature, Danilo Manca, David Janssens, Eduardo Zazo, Eidos und Eidolon, Elad Lapidot, Emidio Spinelli, Ernst Cassirer, esotericism, esoterismo, Fabio Fossa, Ferdinand Deanini, Gnosis, hannah arendt, Hans Jonas, Hermeneutics, historicism, Iacopo Chiaravalli, Jacob Klein, Jakob Klein, Jewish Studies, Jews, Kabbalah, Kuzari, Löwith, Leo Strauss, Luca Timponelli, Marco Menon, modern science, Modernity, Nietzsche, paideia, Phenomenology, Philipp von Wussow, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Science, Plato, Plato's Republic, platone, Political Philosophy, Progress, questione teologico-politica, Raimondo Cubeddu, Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Roots, Scholem, Seinsgeschichte, skepticism, socrate, Socrates, The Quarrel between Athens and Jerusalem, Theological-Political Issue, Theory of the History of Philosophy, zetetic philosophy

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS.

THE GERMAN-JEWISH REVALUATION OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

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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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