Denis Thouard

La poésie sombre des Cahiers noirs

Dans les Cahiers noirs (1931-1948), la poesie de Holderlin devient pour Heidegger un nouveau commencement dans l’histoire de l’etre. Ce tournant est metapolitique dans la mesure ou il permet au peuple allemand de sortir du nihilisme moderne.

In quale misura si può parlare di un’etica dell’individualità in Schleiermacher?

This article inquires the significance of the concept of individuality, the purpose of which is particularly stressed in the first writings of Schleiermacher, i.e. the accomplished system and especially the Ethics. At first, it is the interpretation of Spinoza’s writings which is put forward as the fundamental philosophical inspiration of Schleiermacher’s project (including the Ethics). But the adoption of a systematic framework after 1803, especially in Dialectics after 1811, risks undermining the importance dedicated to individuality. It is in the original conception of time that lays the key connection between the systematic logic of functional differentiation and the ethical logic of individualisation

Making New Classics: The Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen

Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen might both be considered figures moving to the ‘classics’ through modernity: Luo pathfinder of the modern discipline of archaeology in China; Segalen a peculiarly modern kind of poet. They might be seen as moving in opposite directions, though each is critical of the tradition from which he comes. Luo draws on Western archaeology to call for a more inclusive study of all past artefacts, whether inscribed or not, whereas Segalen rejects the conventional frame of Western study of ‘China’, from its beginnings to the Ming period, and insists that the ‘real’ China can only be found in the early times of the Han. Luo finds a kind of poetry even in cooking-pots and the recreation of ordinary life, while for Segalen the past becomes present again only in a moment of discovery; Han lions and tigers would be made dead once again by being moved to a museum.