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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment
University College, Dublin, July 25-31, 1999
Round Table on
"The phenomenon of marginality:
non-treatise philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment"
In the Round Table we would discuss basic problems of
philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment. We think that the way of
philosophising and forms of philosophical reflection are
important enough to be discussed. There are two general ways to
reflect philosophical ideas and, respectively, two types of
philosophical texts: <scientific treatise> and <text of
culture>. We have a lot of examples when philosophy is written
almost entirely in non-treatise forms (Russian philosophy, for
example). Very often philosophical ideas were reflected partly
in a treatise, partly in another form, e. g. literature. We all
know, that Voltaire was <a great philosopher>, but the majority
of us knows him only as an author of <Pucelle d'Orleans> or
<Candide>, but not as the author of <Elements de la philosophie
de Newton> or <Traite de mEtaphysique>. Sometimes only
metaphysics had the treatise form, but social philosophy,
philosophy of history, aesthetics, ethics meditated in forms of
literature, poetry, public discussions, allegories, political
manifestations etc. The question is whether any special forms to
reflect philosophy existed? How to read philosophical ideas out
from different cultural phenomena? What the strategy of reading
should we use?
That is why searching and adequate understanding of
philosophical meanings of texts is very important to conceive
the mentality of the epoch.
Suggested themes include:
Philosophy in the Philosophical Age: The Problem of Understanding
Classical and Non-classical Images of Metaphysics
Philosophising in Rhymes: Metaphorical Forms of Philosophy
The Philosophical Context of Literature's Texts
Philosophy of History in Works of Historians
Problems of Philosophical Anthropology in Sentimental Prose
Social Philosophy in Utopias and <Political Novels>
Heroes of the Pedagogical Novel as Categories of Ethics
Philosophical Category and Literature Metaphor
Philosophy as <a Metaphysical Novel>
All interested people are welcome to add to the list
To participate please submit an 100 world abstract and brief CV by 20
March, 1998, preferably by e-mail to:
Dr. Tatiana V. Artemieva,
Academic Secretary, St. Petersburg Institute of Human Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
P. O. Box 264, B-358, St. Petersburg 194358, Russia;
email: [log in to unmask]
or
Dr. Michael I. Mikeshin,
Vice-Director, Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
Russian Academy of Sciences
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax +7 (812) 218 4667
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Information about the ISECS meeting is available at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~abrown/dublin/index.html
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