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• 19 nov 2010

  Oxford

  Miscellaneous information - Language

  Contemporary Aesthetic Theory

  Depuis une vingtaine d'années, Jean-Marie Schaeffer s'est imposé dans la philosophie française comme celui qui a su renouveler profondément la théorie des arts en la faisant reposer sur des fondements analytiques et cognitivistes. Faisant droit à l'anthropologie et à une approche naturaliste à la fois de la production et de la réception de la fiction, il a permis de redéfinir la relation esthétique en insistant sur sa dimension pragmatique plutôt que sémantique. Son œuvre se trouve ainsi au cœur des débats les plus récents dans le domaine de l'esthétique philosophique.

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• 19 oct 2010

  Oxford

  Study days - Early modern

  Power of Spirit and Imagination in 17th Century

  In this workshop, scholars from different disciplines will work together to study the early modern imagination. In particular, we are interested in the relation between general conceptions of the imagination at the time and more specific and controversial ideas of a creative, active and forceful imagination. This powerful imagination was dependent on ‘spirit’ in its different meanings in the early modern period (human spirit, demons, animal and other spirits, spirit of nature, etc.), resulting in a rich variety of opinions. These ideas of an active imagination and of powerful spirits, in their full complexity and diversity, were transmitted between philosophy, literature, medicine, the sciences, witchcraft, demonology as well as religion, and the workshop aims at unearthing the exchanges between these various fields.

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