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Centres and Peripheries in the History of Philosophical Thought. Essays in Honour of Loris Sturlese
The notions of ‘centre’ and ‘peripheries’ are the two paradigms guiding through a broad analysis of figures, places and topics within the history of philosophy.
This volume is an homage to the great intellectual contribution made by Loris Sturlese to the field of history of medieval philosophy. Its point of departure lies in a methodological line, which Sturlese has maintained throughout his whole academic career: the importance in the historical and conceptual reconstruction of medieval philosophical thought of focusing not only on the classical, most famous centers of knowledge production and transmission, but also on the often-neglected peripheries, which during the Middle Ages were increasingly more relevant in propelling the circulation of texts and ideas. In this volume, the notions of ‘center’ and ‘periphery’ are not understood in a merely geographical sense, but also in conceptual, linguistic, historical and literary terms. The richness of this approach is demonstrated by the broad spectrum of the contributions, which range from Islamic philosophy to Italian Renaissance, including the reception of ancient philosophy and of Arabic scientific works in the Latin world, and up to eighteenth-century French geography. Special attention is devoted to the philosophical thought developed in the German area. The volume does not lack in giving space to important medieval figures, such as Dante, as well as to more general philosophical notions, such as the concept of rationality.
The volume explores connections, ruptures, relations and affinities through the analysis of paradigmatic figures, places and topics within the micro- and macro-histories of philosophy.
Nadia Bray is Research fellow at the Università del Salento in History of Medieval philosophy. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient and late-ancient philosophy.
Diana Di Segni is Research fellow at the Thomas-Institut of the Universität zu Köln. Her research focuses on the reception of Jewish thought in the Latin Middles Ages.
Fiorella Retucci is Associate Professor in History of Medieval philosophy at the Università del Salento and at the Universität zu Köln. Her research focuses on medieval Latin philosophy and theology.
Elisa Rubino is Associate Professor in History of Medieval philosophy at the Università del Salento. Her research focuses on medieval German philosophy and on the reception of Aristotelian science in the Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
Nadia Bray, Diana Di Segni, Fiorella Retucci, Elisa Rubino, Introduction
Loris Sturlese, Bibliography
Ruedi Imbach, Ein nicht-existierender Gegenstand? Eine gelehrte und nichtsdestotrotz persönliche Geschichte der Bochumer Schule (1971-1995)
Carmela Baffioni, Il Linguaggio di Adamo, la Caduta di Adamo. Walter Benjamin alla luce di un inedito testo arabo medievale
Luca Bianchi, L’aristotelismo vernacolare nel Rinascimento italiano: un fenomeno ‘regionale’?
Charles Burnett, Cleaning up the Latin Language in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Basel: Antonius Stuppa’s purgation of Albohazen’s De iudiciis astrorum
Stefano Caroti, “Est autem testis Melissus pro cunctis temporis sui Philosophis, sed et pro omni antiquitate”. Le metamorfosi di Melisso
Giulio d’Onofrio, Dante dal centro al cerchio
Onorato Grassi, Per l’edizione critica delle opere di Pietro Aureoli
Mikhail Khorkov, Nicholas of Cusa’s marginalia to Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus as one of the forgotten sources of the supposed Cusanian Platonism
Catherine König-Pralong, Centri, periferie, luoghi e percorsi. Jules Michelet versus Victor Cousin
Freimut Löser, On the Margin. Some Notes on Meister Eckhart
Pasquale Porro, Da Tommaso al tomismo. Napoli come centro filosofico nel Medioevo
Valeria Sorge, Per una microstoria dell’umanesimo rinascimentale. Agostino Nifo e la cultura napoletana del Cinque-cento
Andreas Speer, Die Universalität der Vernunft und die Vielheit ihrer Sprachen
Markus Vinzent, The Self-Location of Meister Eckhart
Index of names
Index of manuscripts
Articulations of Nature and Politics in Plato and Hegel
This book examines nature as a foundational concept for political and constitutional theory, drawing on readings from Plato and Hegel to counter the view that optimal political arrangements are determined by nature. Focusing on the dialectical implications of the word ‘nature’, i.e. how it encompasses a range of meanings stretching up to the opposites of sensuousness and ideality, the book explores the various junctures at which nature and politics interlock in the philosophies of Plato and Hegel. Appearance and essence, inner life and public realm, the psychical and the political are all shown to be parts of a conflictual structure that requires both infinite proximity and irreducible distance. The book offers innovative interpretations of a number of key texts by Plato and Hegel to highlight the metaphysical and political implications of nature’s dialectical structure, and re-appraises their thinking of nature in a way that both respects and goes beyond their intentions.
Ancient Philosophy 2021 Program
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Ancient Philosophy Society
20th Annual Independent Meeting
10th – 12th June 2021
All times are Eastern Daylight Time • All sessions will take place via Zoom
Thursday 10 June
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Meeting ID: 819 0351 4006 Pass Code: Thales
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Panel 1
11 AM – 1 PM
Circles of Stoicism
Chair: Tim DeGriselles (University of Toledo)
a.Robin Weiss (American University in Cairo) “No Human Being is a Stranger: The Stoics and the So-Called ‘Community of Reason’”
b.Basil Evangelidis (FernUniversität Hagen, Germany) “Lucretius on the swerve and free-action”
c.Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California) “Hierocles’ Concentric Circles”
Panel 2
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Empedocles and The Pythagorean Tradition
Chair: Daniel W. Graham (Brigham Young University)
a.Ginger Guin (Fordham University) “Irigaray’s Elemental and the Forgetting of Physis in Empedocles”
b.Leon Wash (University of Chicago) “Aristotle’s Metaphorical Empedocles”
c.Justin Humphreys (Villanova University) “Aristotle and the Italians”
Panel 3
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Injustice and the Self in the Gorgias and Protagoras
Chair: Kevin Cales (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
a.Jeremy Bell (Emory University) “Order and Egoism in Plato’s Gorgias”
b.Adriel M. Trott (Wabash College) “The Art of Measure, Hedonism and Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras”
c.Mary Townsend (St. John’s University) “Plato’s Gorgias and Protagoras on the Injustices of Women”
APS Social Hour
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Friday 11 June
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Meeting ID: 831 9226 7431 Pass Code: Thales
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83192267431?pwd=azR0UC9XTWd6VkdPb1ZVRTdndWVlZz09
Panel 4
11 AM – 1 PM
Politics and Shame
Chair: Emanuela Bianchi (New York University)
a.Pieta Päällysaho (University of Jyväskylä) “On Alcibiades’ Shame”
b.Elena Bartolini (University of Milano-Bicocca) “Imagination, Freedom, and the Political Context: On φαντασία and λόγος in Aristotle”
c.Marina Marren (University of Nevada, Reno) “State Violence and Weaving: Implications of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata for Plato’s Statesman”
Panel 5
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Energeia and Kinesis
Chair: Matthew Clemons (SUNY Stony Brook)
a.Humberto José González Núñez (Villanova University) “Toward a Unitary Interpretation of Metaphysics ϴ: Reading ϴ 10 in Light of Aristotle’s Discussion of Being as Potency and Activity”
b.Mark Sentesy (Pennsylvania State University) “Aristotle’s Kinetic Concept of Anamnesis”
c.Brian Marrin (Universidad de los Andes) “‘So Endless an End:’ Ergon and Energeia in Aristotle”
Panel 6
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Desire and Difference in Plato
Chair: Anne-Marie Schultz (Baylor University)
a.Lydia Winn (Boston College) “Double-Blindness of the Soul: On the ‘Mixed Nature’ of the Ascent to the Good”
b.Stephen Mendelsohn (Boston College) “Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility of the True Lie in Plato’s Republic”
c.Michael Wiitala (Cleveland State University) “The Parts of Difference in Plato’s Sophist”
5:45 – 6:45 PM
APS Social Hour
Saturday 12 June
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Saturday Meeting ID: 848 7254 1268 Pass Code: Thales
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84872541268?pwd=ODdjR2U2bk9Fc2pyZ052V1JiUnFadz09
Panel 7
11 AM – 1 PM
Silence and the Remainder
Chair: Ryan Harte (Utah Valley University)
a.Tuhin Bhattacharjee (New York University) “The Silence of Ananke: Logos, Psyche, and the Maternal in the Myth of Er”
b.Sean Driscoll (Brigham Young University) “Cratylus’ Silence about Linguistic Correctness”
c.Claudia Baracchi (University of Milano-Bicocca) “Biography, Autobiography, and the Fugitive”
Panel 8
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Life and Contradiction in Aristotle
Chair: Aurora Yu (University of North Carolina)
a.Pascal Massie (Miami University of Ohio) “Contradiction, Being, and Meaning in Aristotle’sMetaphysics Gamma”
b.Cameron F. Coates (DePaul University) “The Unity of Aristotle’s Concept of Life”
c.Philip Sutherland (Marquette University) “Aristotle and Consciousness”
Panel 9
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Aristotle and Puzzling Bodies
Chair: Marta Jimenez (Emory University)
a.Velvet Yates (University of Florida) “The Link Between Body Heat and Courage in Aristotle”
b.Van Tu (Bowdoin College) “Aristotle on Women’s Deliberative Capacity as Akuron: A Puzzle about Coming-to-Be”
c.Martha Woodruff (Middlebury College) “Aristotle’s Remembrance of Xenia in Poetics and Hermeneutics”
APS Social Hour
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron
Située au carrefour de la linguistique, de la littérature antique, de la philosophie grecque et romaine ainsi que de l’histoire des idées à Rome à la fin de la République, cette étude cherche à examiner comment le « code-switching » (ou basculement d’une langue à l’autre) révèle les origines, l’élaboration et l’évolution de la pensée philosophique de Cicéron dans un genre marginal, semi-privé et informel – la correspondance – qui entretiens d’étroites affinités tant avec le bilinguisme qu’avec avec la philosophie. Après une définition puis une triple analyse, formelle, culturelle et prosopographique, du corpus retenu, ce livre s’attache aux sources philosophiques du grec figurant dans les lettres cicéroniennes en quatre étapes successives, incarnées respectivement par Platon, les Socratiques (Xénophon et Antisthène) et les Académiciens (Arcésilas, Carnéade, Philon), par Aristote et les Péripatéticiens (Théophraste et Dicéarque), par Épicure et les Épicuriens (Philodème de Gadara) et par les Stoïciens. Elle révèle la récurrence, la précision, la subtilité des emprunts de Cicéron à la philosophie classique et hellénistique, mais aussi la variété de leurs emplois et de leurs fonctions. La correspondance constitue souvent un laboratoire de la pensée où la genèse de celle-ci est plus perceptible que dans les dialogues ou les traités et une analyse systématique du bilinguisme qui s’y manifeste constitue un angle d’approche inédit et fécond pour approfondir notre connaissance de la philosophie cicéronienne et hellénistique.
Sophie Aubert-Baillot est maître de conférences HDR en langue et littérature latines à l’Université Grenoble Alpes. Ses travaux portent principalement sur la philosophie hellénistique et romaine, sur la rhétorique grecque et latine ainsi que sur Cicéron.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Première partie. Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron : analyse formelle et prosopographique du corpus
Chapitre I : Définition du corpus
Chapitre II : Le grec et la philosophie : formes, fonctions, origines
Chapitre III : Identités, fonctions, langages
Deuxième partie. Les sources philosophiques du grec dans la correspondance de Cicéron
Chapitre I : Platon, les Socratiques et les Académiciens
Chapitre II : Aristote et les Péripatéticiens
Chapitre III : Épicure et les Épicuriens
Chapitre IV : Les Stoïciens
Conclusion
Bibliographie
Index locorum
“Plato and the Invention of Life” Book Panel
Please see the attached flyer for information on the Zoom Session Book Panel on Plato and the Invention of Life by Michael Naas (Fordham UP, 2018), being held on Tuesday, March 30th at 3pm Central Time (4pm EDT) and organized by the Ancient Philosophy Society.
Registration information and the Zoom link are in the attached flyer. Please contact Walter Brogan (walter.brogan@villanova.edu) or Michael Shaw (Michael.shaw@uvu.edu) if you have any questions about the event. We look forward to seeing you on March 30th.
Ancient Philosophy Society Call for Papers
The Persistence of the Sophists, May Event
