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Collective Improvisation: The Practice and Vision of Ingemar Lindh
No full textIngemar Lindh's research on the principles of collective improvisation and performance conceived as process announce an important development in the 20th-century tradition of the actor's work. After early studies with Étienne Decroux and working collaborations with Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, and Yves Lebreton, Lindh founded the first laboratory theatre in Sweden in 1971, the Institutet för Scenkonst. His practice of collective improvisation is viewed in light of postdramatic concerns such as its resistance to fixed scores, directorial montage, and choreography as an organizing principle
Étienne Gilson, Duns Scotus, and Actual Existence: Weighing the Charge of ‘Essentialism’
No full textÉtienne Gilson juxtaposes what he calls Aquinas’s “existentialism” to what he calls Scotus’s “essentialism.” For Gilson, “existentialism” is philosophical truth, the only view compatible with an authentically Christian metaphysic, while “essentialism” is a Hellenic mistake that seduces Christian philosophers by appealing to the idolatrous desire to reduce reality to what is intelligible. In this paper, the author attempts to describe the difference between “essentialism” and “existentialism” as understood by Gilson. Then, he assesses the case for attributing “essentialism” to Scotus, based on an assessment of Scotus texts and secondary scholarship
The Importance of Gilson
No full textThe author aims at answering why preserving, reading, and understanding the work of Étienne Gilson is crucial for the Western civilization if one wishes to be able to understand precisely the problems that are besetting the West and how one can best resolve them. He claims that among all the leading intellectuals of the past or present generation, no one has better diagnosed the philosophical ills of Western culture and better understood the remedy for those ills than has Étienne Gilson
Gilson and Rémi Brague on Medieval Arabic Philosophy
No full textGiven contemporary interest in Islam, compelled by the astounding violence perpetrated in its name, the author considers what two historians of philosophy, Étienne Gilson and Rémi Brague, writing a generation apart, have to say about medieval Arabic philosophy and the relevance of its study to our own day
MacIntyre’s Gilsonian Preference
No full textAlasdair MacIntyre arrived relatively ‘late’ to Thomism in his philosophical career. One of the many determining influences on his thought has been the Thomist Étienne Gilson. This article examines MacIntyre’s possible motives for embracing Gilson as someone apparently allowing him to identify as an “intellectually fulfilled” Thomist. The author claims that MacIntyre’s arrival to Thomism was a well considered one, an achievement unto itself
The Dispute between Gilson and Maritain over Thomist Realism
No full textThis paper considers the proper location and function of critique in establishing a Thomist realism. The author begins by providing a brief explanation of Étienne Gilson’s understanding of critique and why he thinks a “critical realism” is incoherent. Next, the author considers the criticisms made by John Knasas who, from a Gilsonian perspective, argues that Jacques Maritain employs a version of the transcendental method of retorsion in order to justify his realism. Finally, the author offers a Maritainian response to Knasas in which it is argued that Maritain’s account provides a via media between the Transcendental Thomists, on the one hand, and the strict Aristotelian or a posteriori Thomists, on the other
Voyage pittoresque de Scandinavie. Cahier de vingt-quatre vues, avec descriptions ... : [C. É. Bourgevin Vialart, Count de Saint-Morys].
No full textAuthor from BnF. - Year of printing from the preface.Plates are signed: "L. Bélanger pinxit" ; "J. Mérigot sculpt.".Digital reproduction, The National Library of Finland, Centre for Preservation and Digitisation, MikkeliA book with illustrations of a journey to Scandinavia and Lapland.TravelEuropeanaSaint-Morys, Étienne Bourgevin Vialart de (1772-1817), Count de Saint-MorysBélanger, Louis (1736-1816
WHY GILSON? WHY NOW?
No full textThe author identifies and discusses the most important elements of Étienne Gilson’s thought which emanate out of his articulation and defense of the Western Creed. To the question: why Gilson, why now?, the author offers a following answer: because we need to champion the Western Creed, defend philosophical realism, rightly interpret the history of philosophy, correctly comprehend Christian philosophy, and show that modernist and postmodernist systems are arbitrary. The author maintains that Gilson delivers us with the realist philosophy of the human person, shows us the undeniable advantages of philosophical realism, and formulates an original notion of Christian philosophy which appreciates that genuine philosophy is non-systematic in its nature, and that it can expose the failure of modernist philosophies that strive to be systems
La pensée de Gérard Étienne sur les peuples noirs
No full textTout en mettant en évidence des exemples de racisme auxquels les Noirs font face, cet article porte sur les raisons qui auraient pu mener à ce type de discrimination. Les oeuvres de Gérard Étienne dont émanent ces exemples de racisme peignent des comportements de Noirs qui suggèrent l’idée que ce racisme pourrait être justifiable, ce qui a suscité le passage du terme « Noir » au terme « nègre ». Les catégories de Noirs peintes par l’auteur haïtien ont servi de réponse à cette question. En conclusion, l’article rappelle l’hommage que Gérard Étienne a rendu à la diaspora haïtienne avant de mourir.While highlighting examples of racism faced by black people, this article questions the mechanisms that are used to justify it. This is because the works by Gérard Étienne from which they emanate paint Black behavior that suggests the idea that this racism might be justifiable. It is in this sense that they have raised the question of how from the term “Noir” (Black) we arrived at “Nègre” (the “N” word). The categories of Blacks painted by the Haitian author served as an answer to this question. In conclusion, the article recalls Gérard Étienne’s tribute to the Haitian diaspora before his death
La Présence de la Folie dans les Œuvres de Louise Labé
No full textAuthor posting. © Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2005. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here for
personal use, not for redistribution.First edition in: Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, XXV, 4 (1989)(see:http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/article/viewFile/12064/8939 ). Selected for inclusion in the book "Louise Labé 2005" and reprinted in 2004.Referre
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