Seminar EHESS/CNRS organised by Elizabeth Claire (chargée de recherche au CNRS), Béatrice Delaurenti (maître de conférences à l’EHESS), Roberto Poma (maître de conférences à l’Université Paris Est-Créteil), Koen Vermeir (chargé de recherche au CNRS).
The notion of imagination is today seen as a legitimate object of study, after having long been discredited in academic research. Nevertheless, in modern literature, the imagination is generally considered in a negative way, a mental faculty susceptible to provoke error, illusion or sin. We would like to contradict this conception by studying an alternative and repudiated intellectual and practical tradition. From the 12th century onwards till the early 19th century, thinkers and practitioners from a diverse set of disciplines, expressing themselves from different institutional positions, have supported the idea that the imagination has great power.
As for the previous year, around these texts, the seminar will function as a workshop and aims at generating a collective discussion by analyzing and confronting sources from different periods.
PROGRAMME 2013-2014
Sessions on Fridays, 13:00 – 15:00 or 14:00 – 17:00, at the EHESS, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
22 Nov., 13:00 – 15:00, Room 5,
- Roberta Agnese
« Robusti sensi e vigorosissime fantasie » : Vico et la vigueur corporelle de l’imagination.
24 Jan., 13:00 – 17:00, Room 1
- 13:00 – 15:00 Koen Vermeir (CNRS)
L’imagination démoniaque.
- 15:00 – 17:00
Voir du rouge fait-il saigner ? Un débat médical sur le pouvoir de l’imagination (XIVe-XVe siècles).
14 March, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 4
- 13:00 – 15:00 Roberto Poma (UPEC) et Elizabeth Claire (CNRS)
L’imagination et le vertige.
- 15:00 – 17:00
Stérilités et imagination au XVIIIe siècle.
13 June, 13:00 – 17:00, Room 1
- 13:00 – 15:00 Denis Sepper (Univ. of Dallas)
The integrative machine of Descartes’s imagination.
- 15:00 – 17:00
La fonction médiatrice de l’imagination dans l’anthropologie d’Avicenne.
Also in this section :
- Science and Philosophy from Ancient to Modern Age 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
- History and Philosophy of Mathematics 2013–2014
- Reading Mathematical Texts 2013–2014
- "Arabic" Mathematics 2013–2014
- Mathematics in the Renaissance 2013–2014
- Mathematics at Modern Age 2013–2014
- Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries 2013–2014
- PhilMath Intersem 5. 2014 Seminar 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE OF NATURE<BR>
- History and Philosophy of Physics 2013–2014
- PHD Students: Working group in History and philosophy of physics 2013–2014
- Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle 2013–2014
- Philosophy and Physics 2013–2014
- Models of physical transmission in the Aristotelian tradition 2013–2014
- History of Light 2013–2014
- Science and knowledge of Earth and Heaven from Antiquity to Newton 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDECINE
- Race and medecine 2013–2014
- AXIS HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN AGE