Concerns: The endless analysis, worried bodies

Day 2

May 3, 2023

Inquiries (2) : The never-ending analysis, worried bodies

Foolishness consists in wanting to conclude, said Flaubert. Rousseau, on the other hand, says of music that it is better for it to mean anything, fallaciously, than not to carry meaning. The concern thus crosses those for whom meaning and truth are the ultimate necessity of human experience, and those who think that this quest is futile. With, in the middle ground, other postures, such as that of Nietzsche, who decides that art can assume the fact of being the invention of meaning, and that fiction can become rector. Ricoeur is a supporter of the search for meaning, Derrida goes in the opposite direction (this being said in a way that is far too schematic) : the one seeking the possibilities of a circumvolution of the meanings in the meaning, the other the exit of the circle. The day will be punctuated by this back and forth between the effects of closure and the dynamics of openness, of gain and loss, of security and anguish. The question of meaning and its hesitations will be coupled with a questioning of bodily experience, in a poetic or aesthetic state, or in other extra-aesthetic social situations: producing anxiety for others, living in anxiety because of others, playing with uncertainty with others... 

Program :

10:00 a.m. - Opening, by Vincent Vivès10:30 a.m. - " Decadence and Renewal of Meaning (Baudelaire, Nietzsche) ", by Andrea Schellino

11:15 a.m. - "The Fascination of Double Meaning in the Seventeenth ^{Century, Between the Haunting of Equivocation and the Celebration of Voluptuousness,"}by Carine Barbafieri

Antoine Hummel's talk is postponed until June 14

Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. -" The Role of Anxiety in Some Aspects of American Political and Social Life " by Mokhtar Ben Barka

2:30 p.m. - "The Art of Disturbing the Eye," by Amos Fergombé

3:15pm - " Unruly Conversations " between Enka Blanchard and Brigitte Friant-Kessler

4:15 p.m. - Discussions