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• 01 nov 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Global Ethics of Compromise

  What are the normative assumptions and solutions proposed to develop morally right or wrong compromise typologies? Can we develop a universal ethics of compromise or does compromise vary depending on the socio-cultural history of a country? To what extent is culture relevant in shaping types and norms of compromise? The conference aims, firstly, to understand how to distinguish a compromise from a compromise of principles; what constitutes an ethical or fair compromise? Second, it will analyze if practices of compromise vary from one country to another. To do so, different types of compromise will be explored through geopolitical, philosophical, historical approaches, with a particular focus on Japan and Taiwan. This symposium will examine theoretical issues and practices associated with compromise, by adopting a global perspective. It will bring together contributions from European, American and Asian researchers.

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• 09 mai 2018

  10 mai 2018

  11 mai 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context

  This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the exegetical aspect, in order to see in what extend philosophical hermeneutics can contribute to rethink the understanding of the Koran in the contemporary context; the interpretative aspect, to address different contemporary attempts to reinterpret the classical – philosophical, spiritual or legal – heritage; the critical aspect, to present different political and critical issues raised by the question of the encounter between philosophical hermeneutics and Islamic thought.

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• 12 fév 2018	05 mar 2018	09 avr 2018
  14 mai 2018

  Paris

  Lecture series - Thought

  The great Arab thinkers through history - the current state of thought

  Actualité de leur pensée

  Poètes,  philosophes, historiens, musiciens, les explorations intellectuelles et sensibles de ces grands penseurs recouvrent tous les champs du savoir, de la musicologie et de la mystique, aux mathématiques, de l’astronomie à la médecine. Ces quatre grands penseurs des IX^e, XII^e et XIV^e siècle, furent également de grands voyageurs, curieux du monde et de leur époque. Ils  vécurent dans les cités qui firent le rayonnement de l'empire islamique, de Séville à Damas, du Caire à Bagdad.  La réception de leur œuvre dépasse largement les frontières de leurs régions d’élection, comme de leur époque.

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• 12 jan 2018	02 mar 2018	15 jui 2018
  30 nov 2018	14 déc 2018

  Paris

  Seminar - Modern

  Art and vital corporeal experience - interartistic approaches, Asia and the West

  Langarts seminar, BIS Sorbonne 2018

  Le concept se rattache à l’intuition du Pragmatisme que l’esprit dépend du corps qui est, « l’œil du cyclone, l’origine des coordonnées, le lieu où constamment est placé l’accent au cours de notre expérience » car « le monde dont on fait l’expérience se présente à tout moment avec notre corps pour centre, centre de vision, centre d’action, centre d’intérêt ». Le Penseur de Rodin, manifestant cette liaison indispensable et automatique entre le corps et l’esprit qui fait que l’on se gratte la tête et que l’on fronce les sourcils pour réfléchir, illustre le processus de la conscience, qui se forme dans un aller-retour entre une représentation de nous-même comme intériorité et comme extériorité. Dans ce « chiasme » le corps joue le rôle de tangence entre soi et le monde, une tangence indispensable pour éviter la folie d’une perception solipsiste de l’esprit par lui-même.

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• 01 jan 2018

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Thought

  Philosophical hermeneutics in the Islamicate context

  This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the interpretative dimension, to address contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged with philosophical hermeneutics; the comparative dimension, in order to deal with possible transactions on the basis of common traits and divergences; and the creative dimension, to present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts.

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