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• 13 jan 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  The Vico Road

  Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in jurisprudence, but read widely in Classics, philology, and philosophy, all of which informed his highly original views on history, historiography, and culture. His thought is most fully expressed in his mature work, the Scienza Nuova or The New Science. In his own time, Vico was relatively not so known, but from the nineteenth century onwards his views found a wider audience and today his influence is widespread in the humanities and social sciences. While borrowing our title “The Vico Road” to James Joyce, the conference at the Paris Institute of Advanced Study will examine the current state of the study of the works of Giambattista Vico. We will try to encourage discussion of ideas that can be considered Vichian in nature and that have some affinity with modern and contemporary thought.

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• 05 jui 2012

  06 jui 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  The dictamen in every state

  Perspectives for research into the theory and practice of the ars dictaminis (11th-15th century)

  Dans une volonté de décentrer l’étude de l’ars dictaminis de l’approche strictement théorique pour affronter l’ensemble des problèmes que ce champ d’étude pose à l’histoire médiévale, le présent colloque entend affronter collectivement les questions de la définition du dictamen et de l’articulation entre les champs de recherche qu’ouvrent théories et pratiques de cet art, en tentant à la fois de faire le bilan des avancées effectuées ces dernières décennies, et de préciser les perspectives de recherche.

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