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Séminaire Virtuel Interdisciplinaire | Virtual Interdisciplinary Seminar | 2021-23
9e séance | 9th session
L’Humanisme en question
Humanism in question
Jeudi 25 mai 2023 | Thursday, May 25, 2023
à 11h-14h (New York) / 17h-20h (Paris)
at 11am-2pm (NY) / 5-8pm (Paris)
JAN MIERNOWSKI
(University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of Warsaw)
Is Posthumanism a Humanism?
Contrary to Sartre’s L’Existentialisme est un humanisme, my talk is not a position paper but a question I am submitting to a mixed panel of Renaissance humanists and contemporary posthumanists. This chronological grand écart intentionally bypasses neo-Kantian humanism. The discussion I am moderating revolves around three contentious issues: the place of humans in the hierarchy of beings vs. their dissolution in vibrant matter; humanity conceived as the object of an open-ended inquiry vs. being understood as posthuman subjectivity; and the hermeneutics of meaning vs. the processing of information. These contrasted views of Renaissance humanism and posthumanism suggest a negative answer to the initial question of my paper. However, posthumanism is still a humanism to the extent that it asks, with Rosi Braidotti, what kind of humans we are becoming in this posthuman predicament.
ANTOINE COMPAGNON
(Collège de France; Columbia University)
Les humanistes croyaient-ils à l’humanisme ?
L’humanisme a été souvent mis en cause durant la période récente : trop européen, occidental, patriarcal. Mais de quand date exactement l’humanisme ? Si Michel Foucault avait raison de soutenir que l’homme est une invention du XIXe siècle, les hommes du XVIe siècle (et les femmes) ne doivent-ils pas être absous de leur prétendu humanisme ?
Répondant(e)s || Respondents
PAULINE GOUL (University of Chicago)
FREDERIC TINGUELY (Université de Genève)
Organisé par || Organised by
Association Humanisme & Renaissance
Center for Early Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FISIER @ RSA 2023 San Juan
Rethinking Textual Transmission across Media:
Orality, Manuscript Culture, Print, and Performance
Caribe Hilton – Flamboyán Suite – Wave Wing 2nd Floor
PUBLICATIONS
Représentations de soi à la Renaissance – Representing the Self in the Renaissance
sous la direction de Véronique Ferrer, Eugenio Refini et Luc Vaillancourt (Paris: Hermann, 2023)
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