Unit:
Department of Italian Language and LiteratureLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Μαρία Σγουρίδου, Καθηγήτρια του τμήματος Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ. (επιβλέπουσα)
Θεοδόσης Πελεγρίνης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας του τμήματος Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ. (μέλος της τριμελούς συμβουλευτικής επιτροπής)
Γεράσιμος Ζώρας, Καθηγητής του τμήματος Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ. (μέλος της τριμελούς συμβουλευτικής επιτροπής)
Γεράσιμος Παγκράτης, Καθηγητής του τμήματος Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Καλογεράκος, Καθηγητής του τμήματος Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Άννα Λάζου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια του τμήματος Φιλοσοφίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Μιχαήλ Μαντζανάς, Καθηγητής Ανωτάτης Εκκλησιαστικής Σχολής Αθηνών
Original Title:
Διαφωτισμός: Έμπνευση, μελέτη, φιλοσοφική αναζήτηση και απομαγικοποίηση με τη γραφίδα του Ugo Foscolo
Translated title:
Enlightenment: Inspiration, study, philosophical quest, and disenchantment with the stylus of Ugo Foscolo
Summary:
Is our language a disease we have to deal with, or is it the only conceivable cure? When "Logos" should be considered as medicine and when as poison? How do Plato, Gorgias, Foscolo and Derrida answer these questions? What does literature show us in this regard and why do we define it as the preeminent therapeutic space through the sanctification of the encounter?
What do we mean when we speak of literature and encounter? Between whom is the encounter taking place and why are we rushing to redefine its meaning and significance, resorting to every possible science, so as to save, as we think, our science and our dignity?
Is science connected to dignity and if so how? And consequently, what answer do we give to the question how we live? What does Heraclitus, Epicurus, Seneca, Foscolo,Wittgenstein and Camus suggest to us?
But can we talk about life without talking about the idea of our death? And if we attempt to talk about death, will we not be confronted with the riddle of time? So what is time and how can we interpret this ancient distinction between the Greek words "Chronos" and "Kairos"?What do contemporary philosophical and literary scenes, from Céline and Houellebecq to Bergson and Jankélévitch, tell us about all these questions, how do we interpret these scenes, and what do we create at the threshold of the meta-universe and the meta-human?
These are only some of the main questions of the present thesis project, which raises the work of Ugo Foscolo again in modernity, through a dialogue with the history of philosophy and Western civilization, inviting the reader-creator to an encounter with philological and philosophical approaches that seem to aim to the rescue of science, poetry and dignity.
Main subject category:
Philosophy - Psychology
Keywords:
Enlightenment, Romance, Literature, Philosophy, Death, Time, Suicide, Foscolo, Camus, Gorgias, Sophists, Wittgenstein, Bergson, Neuroscience, Italian literature, Reason, Pleasure, Pain, Animals
Number of references:
593
