Title: Crossing Views on Hermeneutics to Day
Lecturer: Claude Imbert (A French philosopher, logician and anthropologist and Director of Jean Cavailles Research Center)
Chairperson: NIU Wenjun (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 3 pm, October 14th, 2019 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Hermeneutics, as interpretation, has been a linguistic concern in the 19th century when Occident collected different languages all over the world. It also had in charge to edit and comment documents from its own legacy, such as ancient poetry, oral texts, archaic writings, Scandinavian or archaic Russian myths. Simultaneously the evidence of fundamental texts outside the Greek heritage settled a philosophical challenge to the occidental philosophy, which had to admit its own specificity. It could no more either pretend or assume to be the expression of universal rationality. A third element complexified the situation: philosophical conceptuality was challenged by unusual concepts either coming from the industrial society or from the uprising of new sciences, as biology or sociology. Altogether, those matters of fact modified the human relation to nature, threw a doubt on the Greek legacy and impaired the Enlightenment optimistic program. I mean a going on and smooth integration of new knowledge into the philosophical frame as it was circumscribed in the first modern times, from Descartes to Kant. Moreover, two world wars deeply threatened the pertinence of philosophy as such, and its Greek inherited determinations. This heritage, either archaic, classical (Aristotelian) or late (Alexandrian and Roman) was discussed all over Europe.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Claude Imbert, a French philosopher, logician and anthropologist, director of Jean Cavailles Research Center, former director of the Department of Philosophy, École normale supérieure (Paris), member of the Humanities and Social Sciences committee in the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC). She graduated from École normale supérieure de paris and won her Doctorate degree in 1974 with “very outstanding” comments.
Professor Imbert’s thoughts and writings are known for profound and extensive knowledge. She is good at following research fields: logic, phenomenology and hermeneutics, anthropology, contemporary French Philosophy, ancient Greek logic, modern and contemporary art theory, literary theory etc. Her publications include: Histoire et structure, Phénoménologies et langues formulaires, Pour une histoire de la logique: un héritage platonicien, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Awarded by the French Academy), Lévi-Strauss, le passage du nord-ouest. In addition, she has written more than 20 books and has published more than 100 academic papers in international and domestic journals.
