Laks, André
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Laks, André
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Item type:Publication, An Encounter in Lille: Epicurus’ Language as a Hermeneutical ProblemIn the spring of 1972, Diskin Clay was invited to Lille by Jean Bollack, who had just returned from his stay at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, to join for a term the Centre de Recherche Philologique, a small team made up of some colleagues and a few post-graduate and doctoral students who had just received the official support of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), which meant national recognition and some additional funding. This beginning was largely symbolic. One room looking onto the yard of a company that had been shut down, 10 minutes away from the main building of the Uni-versity of Lille (at that time located in the town center), almost no books, and those that did exist bought in second hand bookshops. These were heroic times. The whole enterprise relied on the incredible energy of Jean Bollack and the help he received, officially, from Philippe Rousseau, at that time Assistant Professor of Greek, unofficially from Heinz Wismann, then lecturer at the Sorbonne for philosophical German, and from a bunch of enthusiastic and dedicated graduate and doctoral students, of whom I was one. Most of us politically were rather far to the left, in the wake of 1968, but our utopia was of a scholarly and intellec-tual nature, inspired by Bollack’s teaching, personality, and deeds. ©The author. ©De Gruyter.7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pythagoras(2014)We know very little about Diogenes Laertius as a person. One recent hypothesis is that his surname refers to his birthplace (the city of Laerte in Caria or Cilicia), but other interpreters prefer to think – on the basis of a controversial indication in his text – that he was born (and lived) in Nicaea in Bithynia; it is also generally admitted on the basis of the scanty and mostly negative internal evidence that he lived and worked at the beginning of the third century AD: the last philosophers he mentions are Sextus Empiricus (active c. 190 AD) and his disciple Saturninus, and the most recent source he refers to is Favorinus of Arelate. This approximate date helps us appreciate the chapter he devotes to Pythagoras at the beginning of Book 8 of his Lives (as I shall abbreviate the work known as Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers), for it allows us to relate Diogenes’ treatment of Pythagoras to two philosophical movements deeply indebted to Pythagoreanism, i.e. Neopythagoreanism and Neoplatonism.Scopus© Citations 9 14 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and SignificanceWhen we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today. Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant. Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality. ©The autor © Princeton University Press.14 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A guide to Jean Bollack's The art of reading(2018)This is certainly an unusual book (Jean Bollack, The Art of Reading: From Homer to Paul Celan (translated by Catherine Porter and Susan Tarrow), published by the Center for Hellenic Studies and distributed by Harvard University Press, 2017. 438 pages. Paperback. $29.95) one that demands an unusual and unusually long review, and I am grateful to Arion, an appropriate place for its appearance, for having given me the opportunity to write it. Let me begin by quoting an extract (slightly modified and with some cuts) from the In memoriam I wrote after Jean Bollack’s death in 2012. ©2018 Arion : Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Boston University Arion.23 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Platonicien malgré lui? Le statut de l'éthique platonicienne dans les GrundlinienL’importance de Platon dans l’œuvre de Schleiermacher est connue, mais a été souvent trop exclusivement liée à la traduction des dialogues et à la célèbre Introduction qui la précède. Or cette Introduction ne porte que sur la forme des dialogues platoniciens. S’agissant du contenu, il convient de lire, en parallèle avec l’Introduction (publiée en 1804), les Principes d’une critique de la doctrine des mœurs antérieures, qui datent de 1803. Platon y joue en effet un rôle central, à côté de Spinoza, auquel il est régulièrement associé. Une des questions qui se pose alors est comment construire la relation entre l’éloge constant que Schleiermacher fait de l’éthique platonicienne dans ce traité, et les critiques qu’il adressera aussi par la suite à Platon, notamment dans son Introduction à la République de 1828.10 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Lever, or how to act at a distance : a backdrop to Theophrastus' De sensibus(2019)It is well known that when it comes to perception in the De anima, Aristotle uses affection-related vocabulary with extreme caution. This has given rise to a debate between interpreters who hold that in Aristotle's account, the act of sense-perception nevertheless involves the physiological alteration of the sense organ (Richard Sorabji), and those think, with Myles Burnyeat, that for Aristotle, perception does not involve any material process, so that an Aristotelian physics of sense-perception is a "physics of forms alone". The present article suggests that the dematerialisation of Aristotle's theory of perception, which has a long story from Alexander of Aphrodisias to Brentano, may be in fact traced back to Theophrastus' exegesis of Aristotle's relevant passages in the De anima in his Physics, as we can reconstruct it on the basis of Priscian's Metaphrasis in Theophrastum and Simplicius' commentary of Aristotle's De Anima. The reconstruction also provides a scholastic-theoretical frame to Theophrastus' critical exposition of ancient theories about sense perception in his De sensibus, whether or not the discussion originally belonged to Theophrastus' Physics. © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.Scopus© Citations 3 13 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Objet-sujet. Observations préliminaires sur les démarches de Jean Bollack et de Peter Szondi Introduit par Franz Kaltenbeck(2017)Jean Bollack (1923-2012), l’helléniste et interprète de la lyrique moderne (spécialement de Paul Celan), et Peter Szondi (1929-1971), le germaniste, sont liés par une réflexion sur le statut et les ressources de la philologie. Le projet était, dans l’un et l’autre cas, de rétablir le lien entre critique et herméneutique, distendu tant par la réduction tendancielle, dès le xixe siècle, de la philologie à la critique textuelle que, plus récemment, par la confiscation de l’herméneutique par l’herméneutique philosophique dérivée de Heidegger et éminemment représentée par Gadamer. L’article explicite, à travers une confrontation sommaire des deux trajectoires intellectuelles de Bollack et de Szondi, ce que recouvre, chez Bollack, les notions d’« herméneutique critique » et d’« historisation radicale » par lesquelles il en était venu à caractériser sa démarche, et à la distinguer de celle de Szondi.Scopus© Citations 1 7 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Aristotle’s Immovable Movers: A Sketch(2015)In keeping with a view that is explicitly formulated by Aristotle in his Motion of Animals, general kinetic principles must be specified according to the different types of movable entities existing in the universe. At issue, essentially, are the motions of the stars and the motions of animals. Whereas the cosmological immovable mover is the object of two complementary analyses (in Bk. VIII of Physics and in Chs. 6 and 7 of Bk. XII of Metaphysics), information on the immovability of the first mover responsible for animal motion is to be found in the psychological and psycho-physiological treatises (On the Soul, in Bk. I, Chs. 3 and 4, and in Bk. III, Ch. 10 and in Ch. 6 of the Motion of Animals). But it is also found in Ch. 7, Bk. XII of the Metaphysics, in the very context of the argument concerning the absolutely first immovable mover of the world. This suggests that the two types of motion, that of the stars and that of animals, however distinct the arguments about them are, rest on a single scheme, and maybe even on a common principle. This is liable to surprise us, as much as stars and animals appear to us to belong to heterogeneous orders of reality. But the situation is different for Aristotle, who, as attentive as he is to differences, tends nonetheless to conceive the stars as living things of a particular kind. This fact is the source of a series of difficulties that Aristotle generously left for his many commentators to solve. Aim of this text, which was initially directed to a larger audience, is to set some of these complex issues in both simple and up to date terms.Scopus© Citations 2 28 1
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