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Conference, symposium - Religion

The Christian mystery

Ancient christianity and cults around pagan mysteries in the work of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and in research history

Ce colloque, qui aura lieu du 13 au 15 septembre à Gand, est centré sur la manière dont l'historien des religions belge Franz Cumont et ses contemporains ont conçu la relation entre le christianisme ancien et les cultes à mystères païens. Il s’agira d’une étude large du thème historiographique, incluant aussi ses prédécesseurs et les recherches récentes. Le colloque s’adresse aux spécialistes d’historiographie des religions antiques des XIX^eet XX^e siècles. Il sera l’occasion de discuter amplement des idées avancées par les diverses traditions historiographiques, méthodologiquement et géographiquement déterminées.

Ghent

Conference, symposium - Europe

Immanence and Transcendence in Deleuzean metaphysics

Deleuze’s project is usually presented as developing a radical immanentism. It wants to get rid of the classical distinction between two orders of being - the order of the essences and the order of the things in which these essences are incarnated - and it is very critical towards any attempt to re-introduce a (hidden) transcendent element into the immanent order. The "virtual" can be considered Deleuze's answer to the question how to conceive of a ground or foundation that does not break the immanent ontology. Deleuze describes the virtual as that which is not actual although it is real, as something that does not belong to the domain of the possible, as complication, etc. One could ask oneself if these descriptions are not philosophical constructions, that is, rather forced attempts to stay within the immanent order of being. How can we think the non-actuality of the virtual? Is not the virtual transcendent in some sense? Does it make sense to speak of an immanent transcendence in Deleuze’s philosophy, and if so, of what would it consist? Explorations of the historical roots of this topic in Deleuze (Spinoza, Leibniz, etc.) are also welcome.

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