1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164340503321

Autore

Fleury Jean-Matthias

Titolo

Forces et dispositions : L'ontologie dynamiste de Leibniz à l’épreuve des débats contemporains / / Jean-Matthias Fleury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Collège de France, 2017

ISBN

2-7226-0459-0

Soggetti

Philosophy

Leibniz

dispositions

causalité

puissance

mécanique

mécanique quantique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Il peut sembler à première vue surprenant de rechercher chez un auteur disparu il y a trois siècles des précisions ou des distinctions pertinentes pour clarifier les enjeux et les formulations des discussions contemporaines portant sur la notion de disposition. Qu’il s’agisse des concepts, des méthodes ou de l'état des connaissances, nous sommes en effet plutôt enclins à voir dans l’univers que décrit la philosophie leibnizienne un ensemble de conceptions relativement étrangères aux questions...



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996360036403316

Autore

Eriksen Stefka G

Titolo

Approaches to the Medieval Self : Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 / / Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, Bjørn Bandlien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-065558-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 339 p.)

Classificazione

GW 5790

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Approaches to the Self - From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia -- The Networked Historical Self, Traveling Version -- Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature -- The Precarious Self -- Multiple Spaces, Multiple Selves? The Case of King Sverrir of Norway -- The Medieval Subject and the Saga Hero -- The Selfish Skald: The Problematic Case of the Self of the Poet of Sonatorrek -- Medieval Page-turners: Interpreting Revenge in Njáls saga in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to) and Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.) -- The Self in Legal Procedure: Oath-Taking as Individualism in Norwegian Medieval Law -- The Agency of Children in Nordic Medieval Hagiography -- Food, Everyday Practice, and the Self in Medieval Oslo: A Study of Identities Based on Dietary Reconstructions from Human Remains -- Identifying "Occasions" of the Self in Viking-Age Scandinavia: Textile Production as Gendered Performance in Its Social and Spatial Settings -- Self-expression through Eponymous Tenement Plots in Medieval Oslo -- Searching for the Self in Danish Twelfth-Century Churches: A Praxeological Experiment -- The Creation of Selves as a Social Practice and Cognitive Process: A Study of the Construction of Selves in Medieval Graffiti -- The Self in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, and Beyond: Between the Material, the Social, and



the Cognitive -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with major theoretical discussions within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural theory, practice theory, and cognitive theory. The authors investigate how the various approaches to the self influence our own scholarly mindsets and horizons, and how they condition what aspects of the medieval self are 'visible' to us. Utilizing this insight, we aim to propose a more syncretic approach towards the medieval self, not in order to substitute excellent models already in existence, but in order to foreground the flexibility and the complementarity of the current theories, when these are seen in relationship to each other. The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the theoretical and methodological flexibility when approaching the medieval self has the potential to raise our awareness of our own position and agency in various social spaces today.