{"id":825,"date":"2013-01-29T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/?p=825"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:32:11","slug":"poetics-versus-philosophy-life-artifact-and-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/poetics-versus-philosophy-life-artifact-and-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory<\/strong><br \/>\nTexas A &amp; M University<br \/>\nApril 11\u201013, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Since Plato, the controversy between poetry and the philosophical project has\u00a0been legendary, repeated in multiple variations throughout history until the\u00a0present day. This initial antagonistic gesture by the ancient philosopher against\u00a0poets can perhaps lead us to expand our range of reflection about crucial topics\u00a0today, such as the semantic and syntactic mysteries of artistic and scientific\u00a0artifacts, or the imaginary value that dwells within theoretical speculation.\u00a0Creating an interdisciplinary dialogue between fields such as art and architecture,\u00a0philosophy, political and natural sciences, poetical and literary studies is\u00a0unavoidable. The unresolved ancestral conflict between poetry and rational\u00a0knowledge must be restated for the 21st Century; this conflict serves as a\u00a0metaphor around which this symposium is conceived.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote speaker<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Perloff<br \/>\nEmeriti Distinguished Professor at Stanford University<br \/>\nFormer President of the Modern Language Association of\u00a0America<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invited Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Charles Bernstein<br \/>\nDonald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative<br \/>\nLiterature, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Ida Vitale<br \/>\nAuthor, Poet, and Translator<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ann Bates<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University<\/p>\n<p>Possible topics for discussion include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reception of American poetics in Spanish writing<\/li>\n<li>Reception of Hispanic poetics in American writing<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic theory and philosophy of art in the Spanish language<\/li>\n<li>The hidden political character of poetic and artistic invention<\/li>\n<li>New horizons in aesthetics<\/li>\n<li>Scientific and artistic artifacts helping us to understand the complexity of life<\/li>\n<li>The nature of the artist\u00b4s meditation<\/li>\n<li>Utopia and possibility of unification of human knowledge<\/li>\n<li>New sources of architectural thinking<\/li>\n<li>Poetical a priorities in theoretical models<\/li>\n<li>Authors on authors<\/li>\n<li>Translation and Trans\u2010creation<\/li>\n<li>Memory and Mourning<\/li>\n<li>Exile and artistic thinking on displacement<\/li>\n<li>The teaching of creative thinking and writing<\/li>\n<li>Visual thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To submit a proposal for consideration, please send an abstract of 300 words to\u00a0Professor Theodore George, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&amp;M\u00a0University, at t\u2010george@philosophy.tamu.edu.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission to the\u00a0symposium is <strong>February 14th, 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory Texas A &amp; M University April 11\u201013, 2013 Since Plato, the controversy between poetry and the philosophical project has\u00a0been legendary, repeated in multiple variations throughout history until the\u00a0present day. This initial antagonistic gesture by the ancient philosopher against\u00a0poets can perhaps lead us to expand our range of reflection about crucial topics\u00a0today, such as the semantic and syntactic mysteries of artistic and scientific\u00a0artifacts, or the imaginary value that dwells . . . <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/poetics-versus-philosophy-life-artifact-and-theory\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-interest","tag-conferences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p276B2-dj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2835,"url":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/breaking-light-toward-a-poetics-of-opacity-in-early-greek-thinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":825,"position":0},"title":"Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking","author":"William Koch","date":"March 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In\u00a0Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking\u00a0(May 2026 on SUNY Press's series in Ancient Philosophy), D. 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