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NEW ODRADEK CFP: PHILOSOPHUS RIDENS

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Bergson, comedy, commedia, Freud, Hobbes, Kant, laughing philosopher, Laughter, laughter as social phenomenon, Nietzsche, psychology of laughter, riso

CALL FOR PAPERS

Philosophus ridens

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: Leonardo MASSANTINI
(University of Pisa), leonardomassantini@gmail.com

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

 Submission deadline: 2nd November 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:

Laughter is a familiar experience generally connected with joy. At the same time, it is a puzzling phenomenon with which philosophy has had an ambiguous relationship. Relatively few thinkers have tackled this subject, as many of them considered it a problem of secondary importance. Even those who have written about it, especially in the past, have often described it as a malicious manifestation, typical of the morally and socially inferior. Other philosophers, however, have devoted more attention to laughter. Most of their analysis can be grouped into three different theories: the superiority theory, the relief theory, and the incongruity theory.

H. ter Brugghen, Democritus (1628)

Thomas Hobbes—arguably the first modern philosopher to offer a deep analysis of the phenomenon—famously defended the first theory. In the Leviathan, he defined laughter as the expression of a sudden glory caused by the comparison between ourselves and those we consider inferior to us in some respect. On the other hand, according to the relief theory championed by Sigmund Freud, laughter is the release of some kind of energy that has built up pressure. In his Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten, Freud argued that laughter unleashes nervous energy that in everyday life is used to repress emotions, to think, or to feel emotions. Finally, the incongruity theory states that we laugh at things that disprove our assumptions in a particular way. In his Kritik der Urteilskraft, Immanuel Kant defended a general version of the incongruity theory, according to which laughter is an effect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing (Kant specified that it must be nothing and not the positive opposite of the expectation, thus implying that not all that is unexpected is also laughable). Two centuries later, in Le Rire, Henri Bergson presented a more specific version of the incongruity theory. He argued that we laugh when we see something mechanical in something living.

Laughter, however, is not simply one of the many objects of philosophical research. Strong bonds link philosophical research and laughter at a deeper level. Laughter is sometimes used as a defining characteristic of important philosophical figures. Most notably, in one of the letters attributed to Hippocrates, we find a melancholic Democritus who constantly laughs at his fellow citizens because he considers their endeavours completely meaningless. The philosopher laughs at the human condition.

The connection between laughter and philosophy becomes particularly complex when we highlight the similarities between the activity of the philosopher and the comedy writer: both reflect on familiar phenomena; they use critical thought; they step back emotionally from the problem they tackle; and they give us a new outlook on the world.

The goal of this volume of Odradek will be to shape a new and deeper understanding of the phenomenon of laughter, especially in its relation to philosophy; however, we welcome papers from various disciplines.

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

  • Laughter, comedy and philosophy in literature
  • Analysis of one or more of the theories of laughter
  • Psychology of laughter
  • Laughter as a social phenomenon
  • Analysis of the figure of the laughing philosopher
  • Analysis of the relationship between comedy and philosophy

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Programma Convegno Melancolia

04 Thursday Jun 2015

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1934, Alessandra Aloisi, Antonietta Sanna, Beckett, Belacqua, Benjamin, Brenno Boccadoro, Casa Usher, Cinquecento, Dürer, Democrito, Edgar Allan Poe, Endgame, età elisabettiana, Felice Gambin, Fin de partie, fisiopatologia dell'umor nero, follia, Freud, Heinrich Böll, iconografia, Il corvo, Ippocrate, Jelena Reinhardt, Leon Battista Alberti, Leopardi, Luca Crescenzi, Lutto e melancolia, Maine de Biran, Malcontent, Marsilio Ficino, Maurizio Ghelardi, Mauro Tulli, Melanchole, Melancholia I, melancholy, melancolie, Michela Santangelo, Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Moravia, Musicologia, Panofsky, pensiero scientifico antico, Raymond Klibansky, riso, Robert Burton, Saturno, Saxl, Sergio Zatti, Simonetta Bassi, Sterne, Teufel Bücher, Thomas Mann, Tristram Shandy, Valentina Serio, Warburg, Watt, Yves Hersant

Martedì 9 giugno – Aula Magna Polo Carmignani, primo piano (Piazza dei Cavalieri, 6)

Programma completo scaricabile qui

Presentazione, h. 15:00

Prof. Luca Crescenzi, Docente di Letteratura tedesca – Università di Pisa

Valentina Serio, coordinatrice dell’evento per Zetesis Research Group

Danilo Manca, Coordinatore Zetesis Research Group

 

Prima Sessione, h. 15.30 – 18.30:

Chair: Alessandra Fussi (Università di Pisa)

 

Maurizio Ghelardi (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa)

La Melancolia I di Albrecht Dürer e l’Istituto Warburg

 

Michela Santangelo (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

Fisiopatologia dell’umor nero nel pensiero scientifico antico

 

Alessandra Aloisi (Warwick University)

Maine de Biran e la fisiologia della melancolia

 

Mercoledì 10 giugno – Aula Magna Polo Carmignani, primo piano (Piazza dei Cavalieri 6)

h. 9.00:

Saluti del Direttore del Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica

Prof. Mauro Tulli

 

Seconda sessione, h. 9.30- 13.00

Chair: Simonetta Bassi (Università di Pisa)

 

Valentina Serio (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

“Rebel and atheist too”: la figura del malcontent nell’età elisabettiana

 

Yves Hersant (EHESS- École des hautes études en sciences sociales – Paris)

Michelangelo melanconico

 

Brenno Boccadoro (Université de Genève)

L’umor nero della musica del Cinquecento. Bipolarità e dissonanza: teoria e pratica

 

Terza sessione, h. 14.30- 19.00

 

Chair: Antonietta Sanna

 

Felice Gambin (Università degli studi di Verona)

La mano en la mejilla: tra letteratura e iconografia nei Secoli d’Oro

 

Fabio Camilletti (Warwick University)

Lutto e melancolia dell’antico: Leopardi, Benjamin, Freud

 

Danilo Manca (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

Melancolia inscenata. Il topos del Democrito che ride in Sterne e Beckett

 

Lorenzo Serini (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

“When the rest of heaven was blue”: Edgar Allan Poe tra genio e melancolia

 

Giovedì 11 giugno – Aula Magna Polo Carmignani, primo piano (Piazza dei Cavalieri 6)

 

Quarta Sessione, h. 9.30-12.30:

 

Chair: Sergio Zatti

 

Claus Zittel (Universität Stuttgart)

Der Melancholie-Teufel und die Teufel-Bücher des 16. Jahrhunderts

 

Jelena Reinhardt (Università di Perugia)

1934: vedere la bellezza attraverso gli occhiali della melancolia. Moravia e l’influenza di Thomas Mann

 

Luca Crescenzi (Università di Pisa)

Melancolia critica: Heinrich Böll

 

Conclusione dei lavori, h. 12.30:

 

Per ulteriori informazioni scrivere a: zetesis@unipi.it

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