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Call for Papers: Il pensiero politico di Wilhelm von Humboldt

07 Friday Sep 2018

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La persona e il pensiero di Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) continuano ad affascinare e a essere oggetto di studio da parte di studiosi che appartengono a diverse discipline, dalla filosofia alla linguistica, dalla critica letteraria all’antropologia filosofica. A livello italiano ne sono testimonianza le numerose pubblicazioni, tra le quali si cita l’ultima in ordine di tempo, ossia la curatela edita da Carrano, Massimilla e Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

Punto di partenza e fulcro delle seguenti riflessioni è lo studio e l’analisi del pensiero politico di Wilhelm von Humboldt, che risulta particolarmente interessante, estremamente innovativo per la sua epoca ed estremamente attuale per quello che riguarda la riflessione sul ruolo dello Stato, sui concetti di individuo e individualità e sul ruolo della diversità umana.

Le prime riflessioni politiche di Humboldt risalgono agli anni 1791-92; le opere di questo periodo, Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) e Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792), saranno pubblicate postume e permettono di ripercorrere a ritroso la genesi e lo sviluppo del suo pensiero politico. Tuttavia, le sue meditazioni sono presenti e rappresentano una sorta di filo rosso che uniscono le opere che trattano di critica letteraria (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. Braunschweig [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), dello studio delle lingue e del funzionamento del linguaggio (Pindars „Olympische Oden“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), di antropologia (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) etc.

Per analizzare approfonditamente la genesi e lo sviluppo delle idee politiche humboldtiane, possibili tematiche sono le seguenti proposte che individuano il rapporto tra la riflessione politica e:

  1. l’antropologia filosofica;
  2. l’estetica;
  3. la storia;
  4. la religione;
  5. lo studio del linguaggio;
  6. la filosofia.

Rappresentano gli elementi focali della riflessione humboldtiana che possono essere analizzati da molteplici punti di vista e attraverso metodi e correnti di pensiero diverse. Non si tratta di individuare le possibili relazioni tra le tematiche e i nuclei di pensiero proposti solo in riferimento all’epoca in cui visse Humboldt. Tracce del suo pensiero, anche se mediate e indirette, si possono trovare, ad esempio, in autori e pensatori a lui posteriri, si pensi a Stuart Mill che cita il saggio Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen nella prefazione al suo On Liberty (1859), o all’interpretazione chomskiana delle sue idee linguistiche (cfr. gli universali linguistici e l’idea di struttura applicata al linguaggio).

Il numero monografico della rivista dedicato al pensiero politico humboldtiano accoglie pertanto contributi che si prefiggono lo scopo di analizzare questi nessi e altri possibili da un punto di vista transdisciplinare, comparatistico.

Gli abstracts di 250-300 parole dovranno essere inviati entro il 30 novembre 2018 ai curatori Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it) e Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it). Entro il 31 dicembre 2018 i curatori selezioneranno i contributi pubblicabili sulla base degli abstracts pervenuti.

 

I contributi, che non dovranno superare le 40 mila battute (incluse note e riferimenti) e saranno sottoposti a peer review, dovranno pervenire entro il 30 aprile 2019.

I contributi saranno consegnati online via OJS – Open Journal System:

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

Le linee guida per la consegna si trovano al link seguente:

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

Tutti i contributi saranno esaminati e recensiti secondo le nostre procedure

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

 

Lingue: Inglese, Italiano, Tedesco.

 

English version

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s political Thought

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) as a person, and his ideas, still fascinate scholars from different disciplines, from Philosophy, to Linguistics or philosophical Anthropology, and are objects of their research. In the Italian scientific panorama new publications and studies testify this constant interest for the work of Humboldt, which has never been abandoned, as for instance the edition of Carrano, Massimilla e Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

The starting point of the following reflection is the analysis of Humboldt’s political thought, that is particularly interesting, as it is timely, innovative and extremely topical and refers to his idea of the role of the State in people’s lives, and the concepts of individuality and human diversity.

His first political ideas go back to 1791-92; however his works Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) and Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792) were published posthumously. They are very important as they help us to understand the genesis and the development of his ideas, and so interpret them. Humboldt’s political reflections draw a red line that fit his works, whether they deal with literary critics (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. Braunschweig [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), or with the study of languages (Pindars „Olympische Oden“ [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“ [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), with Anthopology (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) and so on.

Possible themes for a precise and deep analysis refer to the relationship between political thought and:

  1. philosophical Anthropology;
  2. Aesthetics;
  3. History;
  4. Religion;
  5. Language study (Linguistics, Historical Linguistics);
  6. Philosophy

These themes represent the main aspects of Humboldt’s ideas and can be analyzed under different scientific points of view, with different methods and ways of thinking. It is not only a question of its development during Humboldt’s era, but also the call for papers aims at finding possible traces of Humboldt’s work in different periods of time and in particular authors, as for instance Stuart Mill, who cited Humboldt’s Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Graenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen in his Preface to On Liberty (1859), or Noam Chomsky, whose linguistic theories developed Humboldt’s ideas on Language and Languages (linguistic universals, the idea of a language structure etc.) in new ways. The monographic issue on Humboldt’s political ideas searches for proposals and contributions that try to analyse it from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. Contributions from the different disciplines that are involved in this reflection are welcome.

An abstract of 250-300 words must be sent by 30 November 2018 to editors email addresses: Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com ), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it)and Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 December 2018.

Full papers of accepted abstracts cannot be longer than 40 000 characters (footnote and references included). They should be submitted by 30 April 2019 and prepared for blind peer review.

The full paper must 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

Languages: English, German, Italian.

 

Deutsche version

Wilhelm von Humboldts politisches Denken

Die Faszination für die Figur und das Denken Wilhelm von Humboldts (1787-1835) ist nach wie vor ungebrochen; noch heute sind sie Forschungsobjekte von Wissenschaftlern der verschiedensten Disziplinen, sei es Philosophie, Linguistik oder philosophische Anthropologie. In der italienischen Forschungslandschaft wird dieses beständige Interesse durch zahlreiche Publikationen bezeugt, z.B. die kürzlich erschienene Herausgeberschaft von Carrano, Massimilla und Tessitore, Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo. Incontri e confronti (Liguori 2017).

Ausgangspunkt der folgenden Überlegungen ist eine Analyse von Humboldts politischem Denken. Diesem gebührt besonderes Interesse, da es einerseits für seine Epoche innovativ war und andererseits für das Nachdenken über die Rolle des Staates, den Begriff des Individuums und der menschlichen Diversität auch heute noch hochaktuell ist.

Seine ersten politischen Überlegungen gehen auf die Jahre 1791-92 zurück, jedoch sind die Werke Ideen über Staatsverfassung (1791) und Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792) erst posthum veröffentlicht worden. Sie erlauben uns, rückblickend die Genese und die Entwicklung seines Denkens zu verstehen und zu deuten. Humboldts politische Reflexionen können als roter Faden begriffen werden, der seine Werke miteinander verbindet: sowohl die, welche die Literaturkritik betreffen (Ästhetische Versuche. Erster Theil. Über Göthe’s Herrmann und Dorothea. [1799]; Über Schiller und den Gang seiner Geistesentwicklung [1830]), diejenigen, die sich mit dem Sprachstudium (Pindars „Olympische Oden“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Aischylos’ „Agamemnon“. Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen [1816]; Über das vergleichende Sprachstudium in Beziehung auf die verschiedenen Epochen der Sprachentwicklung [1820]), mit der Anthropologie (Über den Geschlechtsunterschied und dessen Einfluss auf die organische Natur [1794]; Über männliche und weibliche Form [1795]; Plan einer vergleichenden Anthropologie [1797]) oder anderem befassen.

Mögliche Themen für eine präzise und genauere Untersuchung beziehen sich auf das Verhältnis zwischen Humboldts politischem Denken und

  1. philosophischer Anthropologie;
  2. Ästhetik;
  3. Geschichte;
  4. Religion;
  5. Sprachstudium;
  6. Philosophie.

Diese Gebiete stellen die zentralen Aspekte der Humboldt’schen Gedankenwelt dar und können aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und mithilfe verschiedener Methoden und Denkweisen betrachtet werden. Es geht nicht nur darum, die möglichen Beziehungen zwischen dieser Themen mit Bezug auf Humboldts Epoche zu untersuchen, sondern auch darum, Spuren seines Denkens (mittelbar und unmittelbar) in Philosophen und Denkern anderer Zeiten wahrzunehmen – man denke etwa an John Stuart Mill, der in der Einleitung zu On Liberty (1859) Humboldts Ideen zu einem bestimmten Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen erwähnt, oder an Noam Chomskys Interpretation von Humboldts Sprachauffassung (vgl. das Verständnis von sprachlichen Universalien und die Idee von Struktur, die er auf die Sprache appliziert).

Für das monographische Heft über Humboldts politisches Denken werden Beiträge angenommen, die obengenannte Themen und deren Beziehungen zueinander aus einer inter- und transdisziplinären wie auch komparatistischen Perspektive beleuchten.

 

Interessierte werden gebeten, ein kurzes Abstract in Deutsch (ca. 250-300 Wörter, exkl. Literaturhinweise) bis einschließlich 30.11.2018 an Giovanni Cogliandro (cogliandro@gmail.com ), Isabella Ferron (isabella.ferron@unipd.it) und Marco Ivaldo (marco.ivaldo@unina.it) zu mailen. Eine Benachrichtigung über die Annahme des Beitrags wird bis zum 31.12.2018 erfolgen.

Die Zusendung der fertigen Aufsätze, die einen Umfang von 40.000 Zeichen (inklusiv Fußnoten und Bibliographie) nicht überschreiten und einer beiderseits anonymen Begutachtung unterzogen werden sollen, erwarten wir bis zum 30.04.2019.

Die fertigen Aufsätze müssen online via OJS – Open Journal System eingereicht werden: http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index

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

Alle Aufsätze werden gemäß dem peer review Verfahren begutachtet:

will be reviewed according to our policy:

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

Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch

 

Wilhelm von Humboldts Werke

Gesammelte Schriften. Ausgabe der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, hrsg. v. Albert Leitzmann, Berlin 1903–1936, Nachdruck 1968.

Wilhelm von Humboldt. Werke in fünf Bänden. Hrsg. v. Andrea Flitner und Klaus Giel, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980ff.

Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft. Hrsg. v. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Tilman Borsche, Bernhard Hurch, Jürgen Trabant und Gordon Whittaker. Betreut durch die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 1994ff.

Sekundärbibliographie (Auswahl)

Aneziris, Christos G., Zur 250. Wiederkehr des Geburtstags von Wilhelm von Humboldt, Mannheim, Humboldt-Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Bildung e.V. 2017.

Carrano, Antonio/ Tessitore, Fulvio et al. (a cura di), Wilhelm von Humboldt, duecentocinquant’anni dopo, Napoli, Liguori 2017.

Caussat, Pierre; Variations philosophiques et sémiotiques autour du langage: Humboldt, Saussure, Bakhtin, Jakobson, Ricoeur et quelques autres, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-l’Harmattan 2016.

Denat, Céline, Transferts linguistiques, hybridations culturelles, Reims, Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims 2015.

Halász, Hajnalka, Differenzen des Sprachdenkens: Jakobson, Luhmann, Humboldt, Gadamer und Heidegger, Bielefeld, transcript 2017.

Maurer, Michael, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Ein Leben als Werk, Köln, Böhlau 2016.

Mendicino, Kristina, Prophecies of Language: The confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism, New York, Fordham University Press 2017.

Nolte, Dorothee, Wilhelm von Humboldt: Ein Lebensbild in Anedokten, Berlin, Eulenspiegel Verlag 2017.

Palumbo, Ciro, Stato, diritto e linguaggio giuridico: Studi con von Humboldt, Roma, Nuova Cultura 2015.

Petersen, Jens, Wilhelm von Humboldts Rechtsphilosophie, Berlin, De Gruyter 2016.

Rosenstrauch, Hazel, Wahlverwandt und ebenbürtig: Caroline und Wilhelm von Humboldt, Berlin, AB – Die Andere Bibliothek GmbH & Co. KG 2017.

Weber, Philipp, Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik, Paderborn, Fink 2017.

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Conference: Reason in Practice, 19-20 may 2017

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

Posted by Danilo Manca in suggerimenti eventi

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authority, Belief, critical philosophy, Crusius, freedom, Gabriele Gava, History, Kant, Konstantin Pollok, Lea Ypi, Luca Fonnesu, Luigi Filieri, Marcus Willaschek, Mendelssohn, Moral Certainty, Paul Guyer, Pauline Kleingeld, political theory, Practical Justification, Practical Metaphysics, reason's destiny, Religion, responsability, Richard Bellamy, Sofie Møller, Sovereign States

Reason in Practice

Kantian Perspectives on Ethics, Law and Politics

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European University Institute – 19-20 May, 2017

Cappella – Villa Schifanoia, San Domenico di Fiesole

Organization

Sofie Møller, European University Institute (sofie.moeller@eui.eu)

Luigi Filieri, University of Pisa – Zetesis Research Group (l.filieri7@gmail.com)

 

Programme

19 May 2017

14:00-14:15 Welcome

14:15-15:35 Pauline Kleingeld (University of Groningen)

Kant’s political theory in 1784

15:35-16:20 Luca Fonnesu (University of Pavia)

Kant on Responsibility

16:20-16:40 Coffee break (Sala Villetta)

16:40-17:25 Luigi Filieri (University of Pisa)

How to Rule Reason’s Destiny

17:25-18:45 Konstantin Pollok (University of South Carolina)

Authority and Self-legislation in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

20 May 2017

9:30-10:50 Paul Guyer (Brown University)

Mendelssohn, Kant, and Freedom of Religion

10:50-11:10 Coffee break (Sala Villetta)

11:10-11:55 Sofie Møller (European University Institute)

The Legal Character of Kant’s Critical Philosophy

12:00-12:45 Gabriele Gava (University of Frankfurt)

Crusius and Kant on Belief, Moral Certainty and Practical Justification

12:45-14:15 Lunch (on invitation, Sala Villetta)

14:15-15:00 Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)

The moral ought in as if history

15:00-15:45 Richard Bellamy (European University Institute)

A European Republic of Sovereign States: A Kantian Vision of the EU

15:45-16:05 Coffee break (Sala Villetta)

16:05-17:25 Marcus Willaschek (University of Frankfurt)

Kant’s Practical Metaphysics

Register here:

– http://www.eui.eu/events/detail.aspx?eventid=132688

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

22 Sunday May 2016

Posted by Stella Ammaturo in CFA-CFP

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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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CFP – Odradek “Like a novel: crossing perspectives between knowing, story and digression”

25 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by Stella Ammaturo in CFA-CFP

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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

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 roads and starting points of scientific, historical and philosophical research? Which are those of the novel?How are intertwined, not outwardly but theoretically, novel and philosophy? 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 the 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 this elements are all seemingly insignificant details, but they are often able to open new scenarios and perspicuous representations (Wittgenstein) letting set generalizations that do not lose the concreteness of their starting point. The universal element to explore appears as more similar to the part for the whole than to the whole for one of its parts.

In the background of all this, 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 the philosophical, artistic, historical and scientificknowledge.

Influenced by Nietzschen genealogical critique of the truth, the 20th 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 hazy. This leads to reaffirm the value of the cognitive processes by going to the detriment of their outcome. The 20th century novel sees the affirmation of the metaphor and rhetoric at the expense of rigorous logical argumentation.

In light of this, the 20th century epistemology reflected on the constitutive role of metaphor in scientific thought (T.S. Kuhn) and on that of the autobiographical story 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), he different fields of knowledge had to deal with what really owns the novel: the power to create a 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 comparing to higher knowledge, sewing up a wound that the history of philosophy has always sought to heal and, at the same time, to reproduce. Thus, one can advance the hypothesis that narration and philosophical inquiry are getting closer when knowledge has made itself rhetorical and logological knowing (Cassin). Such a knowing would be human because of restless, always reversible and temporary, provincial (local) and atmospheric (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.
From this, 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. The detail now becomes fruitful path of research, now dead end. Nevertheless, it gives the clear picture of a knowledge always referring to something else, for proximity and morphological distance (Goethe, Wittgenstein). It finally results that the detail, the individual, the fictional, are the only point of view suitable for a 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 oftelling the general by starting from the particular

Invited Keynote Authors:
Davide Bondì, Università degli studi di Milano
Alessandro Cinquegrani, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
Emmanuelle Danblon, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Paolo Rossi, Università di Pisa
Alessandra Sarchi

 

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IX incontro “Atene e Gerusalemme”: Leo Strauss – II parte

25 Monday May 2015

Posted by Danilo Manca in incontri, seminari

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Collingwood, Contesa tra filosofia e poesia, Giulietta Venneri, History, Idea di Storia, Leo Strauss, Maria Michela Sassi, Momigliano, Plato, platone, Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy

Nel IX e ultimo incontro del seminario su “Atene e Gerusalemme” si ritornerà a parlare di Leo Strauss.

Si terrà venerdì 29 maggio a partire dalle ore 14,30 presso Aula A del II piano di via Paoli, 15 (Dip. di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere):

Nella prima parte (dalle 14,30 alle 15,30) interviene Giulietta Venneri su “Strauss e la contesa tra filosofia e poesia”.

Nella seconda parte (dalle 15,45 alle 16,45) interviene la Prof.ssa Maria Michela Sassi su “L’idea di storia: fra Collingwood, Strauss e Momigliano”.

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