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distraction · Distraction as a Philosophical Concept and a Stylistic Device in France and Italy. 17th-19th Centuries

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-09-07 → 2017-09-06
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Разсейването се разглежда като философско понятие и литературен похват във Франция и Италия между XVII и XIX век. Анализът помага да се разбере как преходът от строго логическо мислене към творческа свобода е оформил съвременната литература.

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Distraction as a Philosophical Concept and a Stylistic Device in France and Italy.17th-19th Centuries

The project proposed to challenge and reassess the historical development of ‘distraction’ in its philosophical and literary implications. The dominant Augustinian-Pascalian strain of Western thought has traditionally viewed distraction as an expression of human imperfection, which must be corrected in favor of concentration and logical thinking. This project reconstructed how the 17th and 18th centuries witnessed a different understanding of distraction in both the ethical and the aesthetic-cognitive spheres, paving the way to its revaluation as a productive resource, in literary and stylistic terms, between the 18th and 19th centuries. By focusing on the French and Italian linguistic and cultural domains, the project showed how distraction intersected and mirrored the cultural tensions from the Old Regime to the post-revolutionary decades, thereby providing a different viewpoint for reassessing long-established critical, philosophical, and historiographic concepts. In particular, the research addressed the ways in which distraction tackles such binary oppositions as truth/falsehood, objectivity/subjectivity, fact/fiction, thereby blurring the borders between philosophical-theoretical and literary-fictional forms of writing. The project reconstructed a fluid moment in Western cultural history, witnessing a profound reconfiguration of philosophical and rhetorical praxes, whose outcome may be identified in literature in its modern (i.e. post-Romantic) understanding. The project also challenged the dominating Anglo- and German-centric narratives about pre-Romanticism and Romanticism, by rooting the difference of specific, hybrid intellectual experiences occurring in the French- and Italian-speaking domains of the 18th and 19th centuries in this alternative strain of thought. The project had two main objectives: a) investigating the historical-genealogical roots of the re-evaluation of distraction in the ethical and the aesthetic-cognitive spheres. b) analyzing the implications of this shift in artistic, literary, and stylistic terms.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The proposed research challenges and reassesses the historical development of ‘distraction’ in its philosophical and literary implications. The dominant Augustinian-Pascalian strain of Western thought has traditionally viewed distraction as an expression of human imperfection, which has therefore to be corrected in favour of concentration and logical thinking. My project reconstructs how the 17th and 18th cs. witness a different understanding of distraction in both the ethical and the aesthetic-cognitive spheres, paving the way to its revaluation as a productive resource, in literary and stylistic terms, between the 18th and 19th cs. By focusing on the French and Italian linguistic and cultural domains, characterised by a lively circulation of texts and by a relatively homogeneous cultural background, the Fellow will show how the genealogy of distraction intersects and mirrors the intellectual and cultural tensions between the Old Regime and the post-revolutionary decades. In particular, the proposed research will address the ways distraction tackles and reassesses the conflictual relationship between truth and falsehood, objectivity and subjectivity, theory and fiction, thereby blurring the borders between philosophical-theoretical and literary-fictional forms of writing. The project possesses both historical and theoretical implications. On the one hand, it reconstructs a fluid moment in Western cultural history, witnessing a profound reconfiguration of philosophical and rhetorical praxes, whose outcome may even be identified in literature as an attempt to recompose the original fracture between poetry and philosophy in which Western culture – according to Agamben – is rooted. On the other, it firmly relies on a strong philosophical framework that, through a constant dialogue with thinkers such as Bergson, Benjamin, and Rancière, understands distraction as a peculiar and intrinsic feature of intellectual modernity.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK · COVENTRYКоординаторОбединеното кралство