Programme
\nAll times are Bucharest times (UTC/GMT +2 hours)
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\nFriday\, November 26th
\n15:00 &ndash\; Opening Remarks
\nChair: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
\n15:15 &ndash\; Sorana Corneanu\, Logic\, Imagination and the Government of Thoughts in the Early Enlightenment
\n16:00 &ndash\; Andreas Blank\, Malebranche and Mably on Pathologies of the Imagination and How to Cure Them
\n16:45 &ndash\; Break
\nChair: Stefanie Buchenau
\n17:15 &ndash\; Alexandra Bacalu\, From &ldquo\;Random Wit&rdquo\; to &ldquo\;True Ingenuity&rdquo\;: Shaftesbury on Soliloquy\, the Discipline of the Imagination\, and Poetic Skill
\n18:00 &ndash\; Endre Szé\;csé\;nyi\, Imagination - Delusion - Dream: On the Emergence of the Aesthetic
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\nSaturday\, November 27th
\nChair: Simon Grote
\n15:00 &ndash\; Guido Giglioni\, Giambattista Vico and the Cunning of the Imagination
\n15:45 &ndash\; Alessandro Nannini\, \;An Aesthetic Cure of the Soul. Bolten and the Origins of Psychotherapy
\n16:30 &ndash\; Break
\nChair: Alessandro Nannini
\n17:00 &ndash\; Andreas Rydberg\, Disinterested Observations of a Sensible Mind
\n17:45 &ndash\; Semyon Reshenin\, Friedrich Schiller on the Role of Imagination in Enabling Freedom of Choice
\n18:30 &ndash\; Break
\nChair: Sorana Corneanu
\n18:45 &ndash\; Colin McQuillan\, Self-Observation\, Self-Image\, and Self-Consciousness in Kant&rsquo\;s Anthropology \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\n19.30 &ndash\; Conclusive Remarks
\nIn the last few decades\, the idea of the &ldquo\;cure of the soul&rdquo\; or medicina mentis has enjoyed wide currency within early modern studies. While according to Hadot and Foucault the application of this notion was problematic in post-Cartesian thought\, the latest research has shown that a practical-paideic conception of philosophy is very much at home in the seventeenth century\, from Bacon to Descartes\, from Spinoza to Locke. In this conference we aim to further extend the study of this conception and investigate its significance in an age &ndash\; the age of the Enlightenment &ndash\; which is still under-researched in this respect. More specifically\, we aim to investigate the way in which the &ldquo\;therapies of the mind&rdquo\; intersect multiple discourses of the eighteenth century up to Kant\, from ethics and pedagogy to the so-called &ldquo\;rational medicine&rdquo\;\, taking up motifs from the previous century\, but also introducing new elements of reflection.
\nThe focus of our conference will be the problem of the imagination: we aim to study the conceptualisation of the specific diseases of the imagination as well as the strategies and spiritual exercises used for their possible cure. The focus on the imagination makes it possible to examine the exchanges between the different areas of Enlightenment knowledge in an original way. As is well known\, the imagination is tightly linked with the issue of the internal senses\, and represents an essential point of view both for understanding the evolution of the Aristotelian tradition in the early modern period and for emerging discourses such as those of aesthetics and psychotherapy. For this reason\, we intend to analyse how the cure of the imagination both anticipates and catalyses the rise of these new disciplines. \;
\nThe conference is organised within the research project Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to 'Thinking for Oneself&rsquo\; (funded by UEFISCDI\; code PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2579).
\nFor all those who might be interested in participating in the conference\, please request the link zoom at alessandro.nannini@icub.unibuc.ro
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