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Spiral in art
Lucas, Nathalie ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (referee)
Title : The spiral in art. Aesthetic, ethical and political aspects. Abstract : In this work, we built up a collection of the different works of art in which the spiral form appears, in order to seize the symbolic meaning associated to this form particularly recurrent in Occidental art. We analysed its metamorphoses in different arts -architecture, painting, music, film, etc. - and its different roles, from its apparently ornamental role in the Ionic order, to its more immediately conceptually-loaded role in Renaissance painting or Baroque architecture: the comparison of these occurrences of the spiral in art led us to put into light a shift in the way men looked at nature, the Greek artists electing the spiral because of its sober regularity, the Renaissance painters or the Baroque architects putting emphasis on a power, characteristic of the logarithmic spiral, to evoke « nature's » prodigality in the display of forms - the spiral being only one among them - and the mysterious, to some men and artists even miraculous, character of the appearance of life and the growth of living beings. We therefore focused on the study of the motives that appeal on this symbolic in art. We were particularly interested in the motif of the shell, its many variations leading us from the cornucopia and the representations of...
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The feminine and the writing. From Nietzsche till Derrida and beyond
Jovanovic, Jasmina ; Francois, Arnaud (advisor) ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (referee)
The feminine and the writing From Nietzsche till Derrida and beyond Abstract By means of the subtitle "From Nietzsche till Derrida and beyond" we allude allusion to the subtitle of Derrida's "The Post Card: From Socrates till Freud and beyond", but at the same time to what is at stake in the numerous "beyond" stated by every approach of a philosophical work. The writing experience itself is of great importance for us in that it is possible to distinguish a "personal dimension" (which we characterise using a neologism as "voicing" (voixante)) and a "professional dimension" (conceptual). Every work is in that sense a specific illustration of an internal singing, of a melody that can be brought in contact with life and not only turned towards life. It is precisely this voicing dimension of life the one who grants the longevity of a work as well as the trait of a method that differs from the one embodied in the written text (Socrates) or issued from an already constructed theoretical corpus (Freud). It is the mystery of the feminine that which draws the line that goes between Derrida, Nietzsche and Socrates: Socrates as the bearer of the feminine voice in his refusal of writing, Derrida as the seed-sower of the masculine voice in his writing. Nietzsche in-between. The sonority of silence in the writing...
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Demise in Perception. Walter Benjamin's dialectics of the Persona
Nolz, Philipp ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Klass, Tobias Nikolaus (referee)
Title: Demise in Perception Walter Benjamin's dialectic of the Persona Abstract: The present study understands itself as a contribution to the concept of the person in the work of Walter Benjamin, accenting this term in his earlier writings until 1928. The person or persona, rarely noted in current research, thereby appears to be a key concept of a dialectic philosophy of history, which not only meets the requirements of collecting the singularities in history, but manages to mediate them with and through their transindividual totality. Such a reading takes the task seriously to read Walter Benjamin through the philosophy of Benjamin and, by doing so, creates new possible alliances with some contemporary philosophical works (e.g. Gilles Deleuze). Keywords: Walter Benjamin ; philosophy of history ; theory of the subject ; Frankfurt school ;
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The undissolvable color. On Adorno's disclosing critique.
Stoel, Hendrik Lambert ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Klass, Tobias Nikolaus (referee)
The undissolvable colour - On Adorno's disclosing critique Abstract For a long time, the hermeneutical tradition and that of Critical Theory have been considered as antithetical. In the work of Theodor W. Adorno, a key representative of Critical Theory, both traditions coincide. The central thesis of this essay is that the meaning of 'critique' for Adorno can only be fully grasped if it is at the same time understood as an interpretation of social reality. This essay attempts to demonstrate that his critique is fundamentally a disclosing critique. In the light of this thesis, several aspects of Adorno's critique are examined and several problems delineated. Key words: Adorno, critique, interpretation, Critical Theory, praxis.
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Me impersonal by young Fichte (1794-1800) - in the light of fenomenology contemporary
Tai, Yuen Hung ; Goddard, Jean-Christophe (advisor) ; Novotný, Karel (referee)
Le Moi impersonnel chez le jeune Fichte (1794-1800) - à la lumière de la phénoménologie contemporaine Yuen-Hung TAI (2009-2011 Erasmus Mundus Master) Our studies aim at interpreting the notion of I in early Fichte (1794-1800) in the light of contemporary phenomenology. It is essential to understand the Fichte's I not as a overhanging and substantial subject, but rather as the place of encounter between I and Not-I, subjects and objects. We attempt to answer the following four problems starting from Fichte's conception of I. (1) What is the practice of philosophy? (2) What does it mean by I? (3) How could I know myself? (4) Where I move myself as being alive?
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