The Use of Knowledge: elements of Stoicism in Modern Thought


3rd-5th of july 2009, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.


Organized by

Matthias Rothe
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für linguistische Medien
und Kommunikationsforschung
Europa-Universität Viadrina

Thomas Bénatouïl
Maître de Conférences en philosophie antique
Laboratoire d'Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie, Archives Henri
Poincaré, Université Nancy 2 et Institut Universitaire de France.


See ARGUMENT and ABSTRACTS at

http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/Presentation/?contentId=5726



PROGRAM


Room 104, main University building



Friday, 03.07. 2009



15.00 - 15.15 Matthias Rothe : introduction


I. Stoic order and nature in the XVIIIth century


15.15 - 16.15 Jeffrey Barnouw (University of Texas at Austin)

Intelligent Design in Shaftesbury

16.15 - 17.15 Stefanie Buchenau (Université Paris 8)

„Die Moralpropädeutik des berühmten Wolffs“ and its Stoic Basis

17.45 - 18.45 Thierry Hoquet (Université Paris 10-Nanterre)

Anti-Lucrèce and Anti-Polignac : Order, Chance and Nature in France in 1749


Saturday, 04.07.09

9.00 - 10.00 Gabrielle Radica (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne)

Stoic Elements in Rousseau’s Emile: Living Beings, Nature and Order

10.00 - 11.00 Bastian Ronge (FU Berlin)

“Sensitive Stoicism” – A New Perspective on Adam Smith’s Stoicism


II Stoicism between metaphysics and aesthetics in the XIXth and XXth
centuries


11.30 - 12.30 Christopher J. Delogu (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III)

Emerson, Stoicism, and the Question of Responsibility

14.00 - 15.00 Simon Swift (University of Leeds)

‘Take courage, and withdraw yourself from ways/ That run not parallel to
Nature’s course’: William Wordsworth and the courage of (neo)-Stoicism


15.00 - 16.00 Cornelia Wild (LMU München)

Exercising Modernity: Stoic Practice in the Works of Baudelaire and Foucault

16.30 - 17.30 Thomas Bénatouïl (Université Nancy 2 et IUF)

A new ontology or an aesthetics of existence ? Stoicism between the
first Deleuze and the last Foucault


Sunday, 05.07.2009

III The Role of Stoicism and Neostoicism in modern history and
XIXth-XXth century historiography


9.30 - 10.30 Angus Nichols (Queen Mary University, London)

Stoicism and the Development of the Human Sciences: Wilhelm Dilthey’s
Reception of Stoicism

10.30 – 11.30 Tracie Matysik (University of Texas at Austin)

"The Hidden Influence of Stoicism in Nineteenth-Century German
Philosophical Critique of Modern Natural Sciences (Tönnies, Friedländer,
Berendt)"

11.30 – 12.15 General discussion