Dans le dialogue V des Dialogues des courtisanes de Lucien, apparaissent trois femmes impliquées dans une relation érotique et qui accomplissent des pratiques sexuelles variées. Il ne s’agit pas d’interpréter ces différents actes érotiques comme les traces de catégories sexuelles pertinentes dans le monde antique pour définir une “identité”. L’analyse des voix énonciatives permet au contraire de voir dans ce dialogue une mise en scène et une mise en abyme du travail de l’auteur face à un public demandeur de clichés (...) et d’idées toutes faites. Le dialogue ne fait apparaître ni butch, ni fem, ni identité liée à une orientation sexuelle ; il est un discours sur les techniques de création artistique et érotique. (shrink)

Attraper erôs dans le filet du logos, l'Occident n'a pas attendu la psychanalyse pour s'y employer. Entre [es aphrodisia grecs et le dispositif de sexualité moderne, il ne restait plus à Foucault qu'à déposer une dernière pièce au puzzle de son Histoire de la sexualité : que s'est-il passé au temps de la concupiscence chrétienne et du péché de chair? Comment le sexe en est-il venu à polariser le rapport de soi à soi? 'Il m'a semblé, écrit Foucault, que la (...) question qui devait servir de fil directeur était celle-ci : comment, pourquoi et sous quelle forme ['activité sexuelle a-t-elle été constituée comme domaine moral?' À qui sont destinés les aveux? De quoi libèrent-ils? Quel sujet moderne l'expérience de la 'chair' dans le christianisme a-t-elle contribué à construire? Les Aveux de la chair jettent le trouble dans une 'histoire de la sexualité' qui s'avère faussement linéaire et sollicite tout autant philosophes, historiens, spécialistes de la littérature et psychanalystes. Ce volume fait écho à Bien avant la sexualité. L'expérience érotique en Grèce ancienne, publié en 2019 chez Epel."--Page 4 of cover. (shrink)

Dans les relations sexuelles et amoureuses qui caractérisent une société « d’avant la sexualité », celle de la Grèce archaïque (viiie-ve siècle avant notre ère), le critère de l’âge joue un rôle différent de celui qu’il joue dans les sociétés occidentales contemporaines : cela vaut à la fois pour le mariage mais aussi pour les relations homoérotiques – dites pédérastiques – chantées dans la poésie archaïque, lors du banquet aristocratique (Théognis, Anacréon) ou lors d’autres contextes communautaires (Alcman, Sappho). Le mariage (...) grec est asymétrique en terme d’âge et les relations homoérotiques entre femmes, contrairement à certaines idées préconçues, ne sont pas plus égalitaires que les relations entre hommes. Pour analyser le lien entre âge et sexualité en Grèce archaïque, il convient de comprendre l’éros grec en distinguant l’asymétrie de l’âge de la réciprocité amoureuse (philótēs). (shrink)

Dans le dialogue V des Dialogues des courtisanes de Lucien (IIe siècle ap. J.-C.), apparaissent trois femmes impliquées dans une relation érotique et qui accomplissent des pratiques sexuelles variées. Il ne s’agit pas d’interpréter ces différents actes érotiques comme les traces de catégories sexuelles pertinentes dans le monde antique pour définir une “identité”. L’analyse des voix énonciatives permet au contraire de voir dans ce dialogue une mise en scène et une mise en abyme du travail de l’auteur face à un (...) public demandeur de clichés et d’idées toutes faites (et souvent contradictoires). Le dialogue ne fait apparaître ni butch, ni fem, ni identité liée à une orientation sexuelle ; il est un discours sur les techniques de création artistique et érotique. (shrink)

This volume, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studies of Ancient Greece and Rome. Of interest to students and scholars in classical studies, philosophy, gender studies, and ancient history.

L'ouvrage rassemble les contributions de trois célèbres antiquisants : Paul Veyne, dont les contributions à la pensée contemporaine excèdent largement ses travaux sur l'histoire et la littérature latine, accompagné de François Lissarague, spécialiste en iconographie grecque, et de Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, iconographe et actuellement sous-directrice au Collège de France. La différence de leurs approches et la variété de leurs champs de recherche présentent ces trois études comme comp..

L'ouvrage rassemble les contributions de trois célèbres antiquisants : Paul Veyne, dont les contributions à la pensée contemporaine excèdent largement ses travaux sur l'histoire et la littérature latine, accompagné de François Lissarague, spécialiste en iconographie grecque, et de Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, iconographe et actuellement sous-directrice au Collège de France. La différence de leurs approches et la variété de leurs champs de recherche présentent ces trois études comme comp...

L'ouvrage rassemble les contributions de trois célèbres antiquisants : Paul Veyne, dont les contributions à la pensée contemporaine excèdent largement ses travaux sur l'histoire et la littérature latine, accompagné de François Lissarague, spécialiste en iconographie grecque, et de Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, iconographe et actuellement sous-directrice au Collège de France. La différence de leurs approches et la variété de leurs champs de recherche présentent ces trois études comme comp...

Cet ouvrage, à forte vocation pédagogique, a été réalisé sous la direction de Sandra Boehringer et de Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, deux antiquisantes de renom sur le plan international, qui regardent dans une perspective renouvelée les gender studies. Le volume rassemble les contributions d’une vingtaine d’excellents chercheurs et chercheuses dans le domaine de l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, l’équipe d’accueil « Phéacie », le centre ANHIMA et l’atelier EFiGiES ayant été les viviers où ont été...

Cet ouvrage est le premier hors-série de la revue Métis. Le numéro réunit douze contributions issues d’un séminaire de recherche qui s’est tenu à l’automne 2011 à Épineuil. L’introduction de Sandra Boehringer avec la collaboration de Violaine Sebillotte-Cuchet retrace deux décennies (1992-2012) de réflexions menées autour et par la revue Métis sur les rapports sociaux de sexes, la question de la différence des sexes, l’histoire des femmes jusqu’au questionnement actuel sur le genre. Ce regard...

Sandra Boehringer a une jolie plume. Elle sait bien s’en servir – peut-être excessivement. Elle nous conte l’histoire de Dika, qui fut élève de Sappho vers 600 av. J.C., tout au long d’une journée et des activités qui en décomposent le temps (sur Sappho, voir Annalisa Paradiso, « Sappho », in Nicole Loraux, La femme grecque aux bords de la Méditerranée, Paris, Les Belles‑Lettres, 2002). Peut-être aurait‑il fallu que Sandra Boehringer précise qu’elle avait imaginé l’emploi du (...) temps de Dika? A... (shrink)

Ce petit livre engagé propose une anthologie de textes grecs et latins relatifs au désir et à la sexualité, à l’érotisme et, plus particulièrement, à l’homosexualité, un concept né au xixe siècle et sans équivalent direct grec ou latin. Alors que se multiplient, ces dernières années (au moins depuis la fin du xxe siècle), les travaux de recherche sur ces thématiques, le plus souvent dans le cadre d’analyses consacrées à la construction des rapports de genre, l’objet dudit recueil est de (...) « fai... (shrink)

Ce volume, à auteur.es multiples, examine l’histoire des sexualités depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Chaque section est rédigée par un spécialiste selon un plan thématique commun qui réfléchit aux changements dans les croyances, les pratiques et le droit. Parmi ces thèmes figurent l’histoire des plaisirs, des pratiques et des normes sexuels, celle des relations conjugales et extraconjugales, de la violence sexuelle, de la prostitution, ainsi que des homosexualités (réglementation juridiq...

Somme sans faille et synthèse brillante, cet ouvrage fera date. L'étude, une première, porte très exactement sur les relations sexuelles entre personnes de sexe féminin (p. 27). Le champ de recherche exploré est impressionnant par son ampleur. Il s'étend presque sur un millénaire (viie s. av. JC et iiie s. ap. JC) et embrasse donc des contextes géographiques, sociaux et culturels très différents : la cité grecque archaïque et classique, les royaumes hellénistiques et la Rome impériale. Il a p...

Ce dossier de huit contributions est le résultat d’une journée d’étude organisée à Toulouse en avril 2014 par des membres des laboratoires TRACES (UMR 5608), ANHIMA (UMR 8210) et PLH-ERASME (EA 4601), mais il est également l’émanation d’un groupe de travail réuni autour d’un projet plus vaste, Eurykléia, de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne incluant en plus des équipes déjà mentionnées le laboratoire ARCHIMEDE (UMR 7044). Sandra Boehringer, Adeline Grand-Clément, Sandra Péré-Noguès et Vi...

Cognitive Stylistics or Poetics has emerged as a powerful framework for the analysis of literary works due to the fact that it provides us with tools stemming from bodily experience which aim at universality. This proposal attempts to shed additional light on the analysis of the characters and settings carried out by Freeman (1995) by making use of some recent developments within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, especially in connection with metonymy and image-schemas. It lends further support to the thesis (...) that Cognitive Poetics is endowed with explanatory power since it accounts both for the processes of generation and understanding of literary texts. (shrink)

The scope and method of logic as we know it today eminently reflect the ground-breaking developments of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century. Unfortunately, little effort has been made to understand the idiosyncrasies of the philosophical context that led to these tremendous innovations in the 19thcentury beyond what is found in the works of mathematicians such as Frege, Hilbert, and Russell. This constitutes a monumental gap in our understanding of the central (...) influences that shaped 19th-century thought, from Kant to Russell, and that helped to create the conditions in which analytic philosophy could emerge. -/- The aim of Logic from Kant to Russell is to document the development of logic in the works of 19th-century philosophers. It contains thirteen original essays written by authors from a broad range of backgrounds—intellectual historians, historians of idealism, philosophers of science, and historians of logic and analytic philosophy. These essays question the standard narratives of analytic philosophy’s past and address concerns that are relevant to the contemporary philosophical study of language, mind, and cognition. The book covers a broad range of influential thinkers in 19th-century philosophy and analytic philosophy, including Kant, Bolzano, Hegel, Herbart, Lotze, the British Algebraists and Idealists, Moore, Russell, the Neo-Kantians, and Frege. (shrink)

Where the old objectivity question asked, Objectivity or relativism: which side are you on?, the new one refuses this choice, seeking instead to bypass widely recognized problems with the conceptual framework that restricts the choices to these two. It asks, How can the notion of objectivity be updated and made useful for contemporary knowledge-seeking projects? One response to this question is the strong objectivity program that draws on feminist standpoint epistemology to provide a kind of logic of discovery for maximizing (...) our ability to block might makes right in the sciences. It does so by delinking the neutrality ideal from standards for maximizing objectivity, since neutrality is now widely recognized as not only not necessary, not only not helpful, but, worst of all, an obstacle to maximizing objectivity when knowledge-distorting interests and values have constituted a research project. Strong objectivity provides a method for correcting this kind of situation. However, standpoint approaches have their own limitations which are quite different from the misreadings of them upon which most critics have tended to focus. Unfortunately, historically limited epistemologies and philosophies of science are all we get to choose from at this moment in history. (shrink)

Environmental crises, which are consequences of resource-intensive lifestyles and are characterized to a large extent by both a changing climate and a loss of biodiversity, stress the urgent need for a global social-ecological transformation of the agro-food system. In this regard, the bioeconomy and bioeconomic innovations have frequently been seen as instrumental in addressing these grand challenges and contributing to more sustainable land use. To date, the question of how much bioeconomic innovations contribute to sustainability objectives remains unanswered. Against this (...) background, we study four bioeconomic innovations using the case study of animal production and manure utilization in relation to their potential contributions to a social-ecological transformation. The analysis is based on the application of analytical categories derived from the literature that assess the normativity of these innovations and their implicit cultural changes. The results show that the innovations examined manifest existing thought styles and the incumbent socio-technical regime rather than contribute to a more fundamental transition. In this respect, we stress the importance of evolving alterative ideas in innovation design, applying more integrative approaches, such as embedding innovation processes into transdisciplinary processes, and developing adaptive and reflective governance approaches. In return, bioeconomic innovations should adjust towards the design mission of a social-ecological transformation and include a multitude of actors to discuss and harmonize contesting imaginaries and ethical concerns. (shrink)

This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. Unfortunately, in spite of the brilliant body of research and scholarship in these fields in subsequent decades, the insights of these essays remain as timely now as they were then: philosophy and the sciences still presume kinds of social innocence to which they are not entitled. The essays focus on Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Marx; on (...) the 'adversary method' model of philosophic reasoning; on principles of individuation on philosophical ontology and philosophy of language; on individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; and conceptions of objective inquiry in the sciences. In taking insights of both Liberal and Marxian women's movements into the purportedly most abstract and value-free areas of Western thought, these essays chart sexist and androcentric assumptions, claims and practices in the cognitive, technical cores of Western sciences and their philosophies. They begin to identify the distinctive aspects of women's experiences and locations in male-supremacist social structures which can provide resources needed for the creation of post-androcentric thinking in research, scholarship, and public policy. Such uses of feminist insights remain controversial today, and even among some feminists. These authors were all junior researchers and scholars two decades ago; today many are among the most distinguished senior scholars in their fields. Their work here provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to explore some of the most intriguing and controversial challenges to disciplinary projects and to public policy today. (shrink)

Thomas Hobbes has been hailed as the philosopher of power par excellence; however, I demonstrate that Hobbes’s conceptualization of political power is not stable across his texts. Once the distinction is made between the authorized and the effective power of the sovereign, it is no longer sufficient simply to defend a doctrine of the authorized power of the sovereign; such a doctrine must be robustly complemented by an account of how the effective power commensurate to this authority might be achieved. (...) Nor is this straightforward: for effective political power can fluctuate, sometimes severely. In this light, the prevalent juridical reading of Hobbes’s political philosophy is inadequate. (shrink)

: Feminist standpoint theory remains highly controversial: it is widely advocated, used to guide research and justify its results, and yet is also vigorously denounced. This essay argues that three such sites of controversy reveal the value of engaging with standpoint theory as a way of reflecting on and debating some of the most anxiety-producing issues in contemporary Western intellectual and political life. Engaging with standpoint theory enables a socially relevant philosophy of science.

Spanish translation of Field, S. L. (2014). 'Hobbes and the question of power'. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 52(1), 61-86. Thomas Hobbes has been hailed as the philosopher of power par excellence; however, I demonstrate that Hobbes’s conceptualization of political power is not stable across his texts. Once the distinction is made between the authorized and the effective power of the sovereign, it is no longer sufficient simply to defend a doctrine of the authorized power of the sovereign; such (...) a doctrine must be robustly complemented by an account of how the effective power commensurate to this authority might be achieved. Nor is this straightforward: for effective political power can fluctuate, sometimes severely. In this light, the prevalent juridical reading of Hobbes’s political philosophy is inadequate. (shrink)

Ethical issues are very relevant in the field of women’s, gender and/or feminist studies. The aim of this article is to highlight the ethical challenges faced by the authors in their research process, with specific reference to two projects on gender and disasters in which they have been involved. In general, we try to avoid sexist bias throughout the complete research process, from the definition of the objectives themselves to the methodology design, where we ensure diversity in the selection of (...) participants in order to take into consideration the variety of voices present in society, especially those of women. Also, when developing our research, we take into account the power relationships involved, both between those who participate in the fieldwork and with the researchers themselves. To counteract the effects of such relations, we have considered people’s wellbeing and the humanization of the whole process. Finally, when it comes to the dissemination of the results and their transfer to society at large, we follow the same principles and actively integrate the people involved. Considering these issues benefits the research process and makes the resultant knowledge more ethical and socially useful, in addition to promoting more egalitarian gender relations. (shrink)

What is the fruit of a searching dialogue between faith and reason? This book collects theological and philosophical perspectives on the richness of the faith-reason dialogue, including examples from literature, continental and analytic philosophy, worship and liturgy, and radical approaches to issues of racism and prejudice. The authors strongly resist the temptations to either disregard the faith-reason dialogue or take it for granted. Through their explorations and reflections they open up new vistas and horizons on a topic more necessary than (...) ever. (shrink)

This volume portrays the Polish or Lvov-Warsaw School, one of the most influential schools in analytic philosophy, which, as discussed in the thorough introduction, presented an alternative working picture of the unity of science.

Resumen El mundo globalizado actualmente ofrece innumerables beneficios para la humanidad, debido al desarrollo tecnológico, la comunicación, el intercambio entre economías, culturas y credos, la reducción de distancias, entre otros factores. Pero no existe un acceso real de todas las personas a los recursos de este mundo, ni un reconocimiento del valor de la otredad. Tensiones, conflictos y guerras marcan la actual era de globalización, excluyendo a gran parte de la humanidad del derecho de vivir en libertad, igualdad y dignidad. (...) Este artículo analiza cómo la encíclica Fratelli tutti propone la hospitalidad, la ciudadanía y la fraternidad como fundamentales para superar ambigüedades y contradicciones en un mundo globalizado. A partir del método de análisis cualitativo, exploramos los conceptos de hospitalidad, ciudadanía y fraternidad en la encíclica social, en conversación con otra literatura. La conclusión es que sólo en el horizonte de la fraternidad se superan aquellas ambigüedades y contradicciones para lo cual urge la práctica de la hospitalidad y la ciudadanía, proveiendo a todas las personas del derecho a habitar este mundo. Hospitalidad y ciudadanía, entonces, son esenciales para la globalización de la solidaridad y para la construcción de un mundo de fratelli tutti. Abstract The current globalized world enables countless benefits for humanity, through technological development, communication, exchange between economies, cultures and creeds, the reduction of distances, among other factors. But there is no real access by all people to the resources of this world, or recognition of the value of otherness. Tensions, conflicts and wars mark the current era of globalization, excluding a large portion of humanity from the right to live with freedom, equality and dignity. This article analyzes how the encyclical Fratelli tutti proposes hospitality, citizenship and fraternity as fundamental to overcoming ambiguities and contradictions in a globalized world. The method is a qualitative analysis of the concepts of hospitality, citizenship and fraternity in Fratelli tutti, in relation to similar studies. The conclusion is that it is only on the horizon of fraternity that the existing contradictions in today's humanity can be overcome. For this, the practice of hospitality and citizenship is urgent, giving all people the right to inhabit this world. Thus, hospitality and citizenship are essential for the globalization of solidarity and the construction of a world of fratelli tutti. (shrink)

This argument has emphasized the professional character of Darwin's early activities, largely in order to balance the usual portrayal of the amateurishness of his early training and field of study. Arguing this way has revealed the interplay between Darwin's personal interests and his professional obligations, the latter being particularly important for the period from October 1836 to July 1837. In several instances, notably the treatment of his collections, the progress of his thought followed the professional lead directly. In the absence (...) of such a lead Darwin did not pursue certain issues, if only for lack of time. Thus the subject of man did not figure in his initial formulation of a transmutationist position. Only after the commitment to the new point of view had been made did the issues emerge which will be treated in Part II of this article. However, we may close by noting Darwin's inherited disposition on the subject: in the summer of 1837 Darwin responded to Lyell's claim that the change from irrational animal to rational man represented “a phenomenon of a distinct kind from the passage from the more simple to the more perfect forms of animal organization and instinct” with a fanciful doodle in the margin.121 The thoughts behind the bemused scribbling were to occupy a good portion of Darwin's time for the next two years. (shrink)

Comprehensive regulatory changes brought on by recent corporate governance reforms have broadly redefined and re-emphasized the roles and responsibilities of all the participants in a public company’s financial reporting process. Most notably, these reforms have intensified scrutiny of corporate audit committees, whose role as protectors of investors’ interests now attracts substantially higher visibility and expectations. As a result, audit committees face the formidable challenge of effectively overseeing the company’s financial reporting process in a dramatically changed – and highly charged – (...) corporate governance environment. This paper discusses the new expectations of audit committee responsibilities and effectiveness in the wake of corporate governance reforms, key challenges, “whistleblower” provisions and shortcomings, and provides some directions for future research. (shrink)

Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated from the confines of a quasi-religious stereotype and judged on its own merits. Hence this work will approach Chinese Buddhism as a (...) philosophical tradition in its own right, not as an historical after-thought nor as an occasion for comparative discussions that assume the west alone sets the standards for or is the origin of philosophy and its methodologies. Viewed within their own context, Chinese Buddhist philosophers have much to contribute to a wide range of philosophical concerns, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion, even though Western divisions of philosophy may not exhaust the rich contents of Chinese Buddhist Philosophy. (shrink)

Negri celebrates a conception of democracy in which the concrete powers of individual humans are not alienated away, but rather are added together: this is a democracy of the multitude. But how can the multitude act without alienating anyone’s power? To answer this difficulty, Negri explicitly appeals to Spinoza. Nonetheless, in this paper, I argue that Spinoza’s philosophy does not support Negri’s project. I argue that the Spinozist multitude avoids internal hierarchy through the mediation of political institutions and not in (...) spite of them; nor do these institutions merely emanate from the multitude as it is, but rather they structure, restrain and channel its passions. In particular, the required institutions are not those of a simple direct democracy. There may be other non-Spinozist arguments on which Negri can ground his theory, but he cannot legitimately defend his conception of the democratic multitude by appeal to Spinoza. (shrink)

Biblical spirituality must strike a delicate balance between historical-critical engagement with scripture and opening oneself to the Word's life-transforming potential.