Between truth and freedom: Enlightenment answers to ‘thinking for oneself’

Project Description

Financed by UEFISCDI (project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE2020-2579; 105/2021)

Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to ‘Thinking for Oneself’:

Our research project focuses on one of the central driving ideas of the German Enlightenment, “thinking for oneself” or autonomous thinking (Selbstdenken). We propose to analyze the evolving definition of thinking for oneself and the conditions of its acquisition and practice within three main strands: 1) the pedagogical texts and compendia of the time; 2) the medical writings of the ‘rational physicians’; 3) the political reflection on the freedom of thought and on autonomous reasoning, as well as on the conditions that political powers must ensure in order to promote and safeguard Selbstdenken. We will focus on the practices and strategies elaborated by the enlightened thinkers in order to ensure the attainment of an autonomous use of reason, while taking into account the philosophical assumptions underpinning the idea of thinking for oneself and its transformations in the long eighteenth century. The project will offer the first comprehensive account of the idea of thinking for oneself in the German Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on the novel contexts of its elaboration and its envisaged applicability. We hope to open new perspectives on the Enlightenment and its nuanced approach to reason, autonomy and progress, thereby providing a more accurate picture of the period.

Între adevăr şi libertate: răspunsuri iluministe la problema autonomiei gândirii

Acest proiect de cercetare este consacrat unei idei centrale a iluminismului german, gândirea autonomă (Selbstdenken). El îşi propune să analizeze evoluţia concepţiei despre ceea ce înseamnă a gândi autonom şi a condiţiilor care prezidează la obţinerea şi punerea în practică a gândirii autonome în cadrul a trei domenii principale : 1) tratatele si manualele pedagogice ale vremii ; 2) scrierile medicale ale ‘medicilor filozofi’ ; 3) scrierile politice consacrate libertăţii şi autonomiei gândirii şi condiţiilor pe care puterea politică trebuie să le asigure pentru a încuraja şi proteja Selbstdenken. Proiectul nostru va examina practicile şi strategiile elaborate de gânditorii iluminişti pentru a asigura dobândirea şi exerciţiul autonomiei gândirii ţinând totodată cont de convingerile lor filozofice şi de transformările prin care trece idea de gândire autonomă. Dorim să propunem o analiză cuprinzătoare a evoluţiei acestei idei în secolul al XVIII-lea în spaţiul german, investigând noi contexte în care ea este abordată şi redefinită, cum este, de pildă, perspectiva antropologică despre ‘omul întreg’ (ganze Mensch) îmbrăţişată de ‘medicii filozofi’ ai vremii. Scopul nostru este să oferim o nouă perspectivă asupra epocii prin punerea în lumină a concepţiei nuanţate despre raţiune, progres şi autonomie a gânditorilor vremii, care sunt departe de-a exprima încrederea neţărmurită în raţiune şi în progresul ei care li s-a atribuit ulterior.

Team

Dr. Tinca Prunea (PI) is Researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. Her work focuses on Kant and the German Enlightenment (Crusius, Wolff, Reimarus, the Berlin Academy), as well as on Émilie du Châtelet and the reception of Kant’s philosophy in the 20th century. Her edited books include The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (with Karin de Boer, Routledge 2021) and The Berlin Academy in the Reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and Science (with Peter Anstey, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2022). Her monograph L’avènement de la métaphysique kantienne. Prémisses et enjeux d’une réception au XXe siècle is forthcoming with Garnier, Paris.

Dr. Alessandro Nannini earned his master’s degrees in Philosophy (2009) and in Cultural Anthropology (2010) at the University of Bologna; he received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Palermo (2015) and has since been a research fellow and member of research groups at several universities and research centres in Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria and Romania. His research focuses on intellectual history and aesthetics in the Early Modern Age, with particular regard to the German Enlightenment. He edited the first Italian anthological edition of Sulzer’s Allgemeine Theorie der Schönen Künste and co-edited the Italian edition of Baumgarten’s Aesthetica and a monograph on Christian Garve. His studies have appeared in international journals such as The Journal of the History of Ideas; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte

Dr. Sorana Corneanu is Associate Professor of English in the English Department, University of Bucharest. She was the recipient of two doctoral research scholarships at Oxford (2005-6) and New Europe College, Bucharest (2006-7), and was post-doctoral research fellow of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (Oct. 2011) and of CHED, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (July-Oct. 2012). Her research interests include the intersections of literature, science and ethics in the early modern period, the history of the imagination, and the changing fortunes of logic from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries. She is the author of Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Knowledge, Selves, Virtues: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Early Modern Literature, Science and Philosophy (EUB, 2014) and co-editor of Francis Bacon on Motion and Power (with Guido Giglioni and Dana Jalobeanu, Springer, 2016).

Dr. Alexandra Bacalu is an assistant lecturer at the English Department of the University of Bucharest where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature. Her research interests include early modern and Enlightenment intellectual history, with a focus on ideas pertaining to human nature in literary, philosophical and medical contexts. In 2020 she successfully defended her PhD thesis, Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination, which traces a neglected conjunction of poetic and moral discourses in the poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside and argues that Stoic exercises for disciplining the imagination played a significant role in the emergence of eighteenth-century poetic notions of imaginative freedom and creativity.

Cristian Vulpe is an M.A. student and teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds an M.A. in analytic philosophy (2018-2020) and a B.A. in philosophy (2015-2018) from the University of Bucharest. From 2016-2018 he was the principal investigator of the UEFISCDI grant Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. His research interests span a wide range of disciplines, from the history of philosophy (especially Kant) to philosophy of mind and action theory. His work mainly focuses on questions about self-consciousness, the relationship between our sensible and intellectual capacities and the nature of free rational agency (both epistemic and practical).

Events

The Cure of the Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Enlightenment

International conference, 26-27 November 2021, Online

 

Freedom, Action and Control: Conceptions of Rational Agency in Kant and the German Enlightenment

International conference, June 9-10, 2022, Online

 

The Driving Ideas of the German Enlightenment

Call for Papers  / Conference program

International conference, 10-11 November 2022, British Studies (7-13 Pitar Mos, Sala de Consiliu, 1st floor)

 

The Autonomy of Reason in the Cosmological Debates of the Enlightenment

Masterclass, 02 November 2023, ICUB Humanities (Conference Room; 1 Dimitrie Brandza Str.)

 

Frederick the Great and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Conference Programme

International Conference, 3-4 November 2023, University of Bucharest (7-13 Pitar Moș St. and online)

 

Project Development

2021

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Karin de Boer and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (eds.), The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy, London/NY: Routledge, 2021.
  2. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “On the Mitigated Phenomenalism of J.B. Merian”, in K. de Boer, T. Prunea-Bretonnet (eds.), The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy, London/NY: Routledge, 2021, 206-223.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Crusius and Kant on Evidence, Certainty and the Philosophical Method”, in A. Hahmann, G. Stiening (eds.), Christian August Crusius (1715-1775). Between Philosophy and Reveleation, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021, 1-17.
  4. Alessandro Nannini, “The Co-Founding of Aesthetics: Baumgarten and Meier”, in Colin McQuillan (ed.), Baumgarten’s Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 171-192.
  5. Alessandro Nannini, “Aesthetica experimentalis. Baumgarten and the Aesthetic Dimension of Experience”, in K. de Boer and T. Prunea-Bretonnet (eds.), The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy, London/NY: Routledge, 2021, 55-78.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, “Critical Aesthetics. Baumgarten and the Logic of Taste”, in E. Szécsényi and R. van Gerwen (eds.), The Birth of the Discipline, Aesthetic investigations, 4/2, 2021, 201-218.
  7. Alessandro Nannini, Review of: Victoria Niehle, Die Poetik der Fülle. Bewältigungsstrategien ästhetischer Überschüsse 1750-1810, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018, 257 pp., Studi di estetica, IV serie, 20/1, 2021, 223-227.
  8. Sorana Corneanu, “Logic and the Movement of Reasoning: Pierre Gassendi on the Three Acts of the Mind”, Perspectives on Science 29/3, 2021, 292-326.

 

TALKS

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Teleology and Laws of Nature in Lambert’s Cosmological Letters”, Conference “Rational Cosmology from the German and French Enlightenment to Kant” (online), KU Leuven, 25-26 February 2021.
  2. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Book Launch The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (edited by Karin de Boer and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Routledge, 2021), Leuven Seminar on Classical German Philosophy, Leuven (online), 16 September 2021.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “‘La connaissance des causes nous élève jusqu’au créateur’: science naturelle et théologie dans les Institutions de physique”, Conference “L’épistémologie d’Émilie du Châtelet”, Université Paris-Nanterre, 24-25 September 2021.
  4. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Kant et l’ontologie selon N. Hartmann”, XVe Congrès de la SKELF “Kant: Ontologie et Métaphysique”, Milan, Italy, 28-30 September 2021.
  5. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Selbstdenken et redéfinition de la pensée libre à la fin du XVIIIe siècle”, workshop Sapere aude, Université Paris 8, 20 November 2021.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, “An Aesthetic Cure of the Soul. Bolten and the Origins of Psychotherapy”, Conference “The Cure of Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Enlightenment”, ICUB Humanities, University of Bucharest, 26- 27 November 2021.
  7. Alessandro Nannini, “Plumbing the Depths of the Mind. Leibniz and the Invention of the Unconscious”, Philosophy Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 13 October 2021.
  8. Alessandro Nannini, “Baumgarten l’estetista. L’origine della cosmetica come discorso estetico”, Congress of the Italian Society of Aesthetics, University of Palermo, 30 September 2021.
  9. Sorana Corneanu, “Lived Logic: The Discipline of Assent and the Cure of Error”, Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 20 April 2021.
  10. Sorana Corneanu, “Gassendi’s Logic and the Movement of Reasoning”, Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 23 November 2021.
  11. Sorana Corneanu, “Logic, Imagination, and the Government of Thoughts in the Early Enlightenment”, Conference “The Cure of Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Enlightenment”, ICUB Humanities, University of Bucharest (online), 26- 27 November 2021.
  12. Alexandra Bacalu, “From ‘Random Wit’ to ‘True Ingenuity’: Shaftesbury on Soliloquy, the Discipline of the Imagination, and Poetic Skill”, Conference “The Cure of Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Enlightenment”, ICUB Humanities, University of Bucharest (online), 26- 27 November 2021.
  13. Cristian Vulpe, “Kant’s Transcendental Transformation of Ontology”, XVe Congrès de la SKELF “Kant: Ontologie et Métaphysique”, Milan, Italy, 28-30 September 2021.

 

2022

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Peter R. Anstey (eds.), The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and science, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, 288p.
  2. Alessandro Nannini, Al di qua del logos, Milano: Mimesis, 2022, 210p.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Eclectic philosophy and ‘academic spirit’: the Berlin Academy and the Thomasian legacy”, in T. Prunea-Bretonnet and P. R. Anstey (eds.), The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and Science, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, p. 71-101.
  4. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Perfectibilité et ‘destination de l’homme’- Introduction, in Ch. Morel, E. Hourcade, A. Yuva (eds.), La perfectibilité de l’homme: les Lumières allemandes contre Rousseau?, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022, vol. 1, p. 221-229.
  5. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Selbstdenken and Eclectic Philosophy: Galen in the Late German Enlightenment”, in E. Scribano, M. Favaretti Camposampiero (eds.), Galen and the Early Moderns, Zürich: Springer, 2022, p. 193-207.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, “Somaesthetics in Baumgarten? The Founding of Aesthetics and the Body”, European Journal of Aesthetics, 59, no. 2 (2022), p. 103-18.
  7. Alessandro Nannini, “Baumgarten the Beautician. The Origins of Cosmetics as an Aesthetic Discourse”, Aesthetica Preprint, 120 (accepted, forthcoming).
  8. Alessandro Nannini, “Origins of the Arts, Origins of Man in Sulzer’s Academic Essays”, in T. Prunea-Bretonnet and P. Anstey (eds.), The Berlin Academy in the Reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and Science, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, p. 205-231.
  9. Alessandro Nannini, “Baumgarten e o problema da beleza: Aisthesis, educação estética, inspiração”, Rapsódia. Almanaque de filosofia e arte, 16 (2022), p. 34-57.
  10. Alessandro Nannini, “La dieta di Baumgarten. Esercizio fisico, salute e bellezza”, Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico (accepted).
  11. Johann Georg Sulzer, Schriften zu Philosophie und Ästhetik, kritische Ausgabe, hrsg. von E. Décultot und Alessandro Nannini, Basel: Schwabe (forthcoming, 2023).
  12. Alessandro Nannini, Charlotte Morel, Sébastien Neveu, “Perficibilitas. Quelques jalons de l’histoire latine du concept”, in Ch. Morel, E. Hourcade, A. Yuva (eds.), La perfectibilité de l’homme: les Lumières allemandes contre Rousseau?, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022, vol. 1, 105-116.
  13. Alessandro Nannini, Nicolas Class, “Se perfectionner. Le poids du sensible”, in Ch. Morel, E. Hourcade, A. Yuva (eds.), La perfectibilité de l’homme: les Lumières allemandes contre Rousseau?, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022, vol. 2, p. 1001-1012.
  14. Sorana Corneanu, Benjamin Goldberg, Diego Lucci, „Introduction”, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11.1 (2022), p. 9-16.
  15. Sorana Corneanu, Review of Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730, The Seventeenth Century, 37.5 (2022), p. 859-862.
  16. Alexandra Bacalu, Review of Barbara C. Morden, The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity (Carmarthen: McNidder & Grace, 2022), Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti: Limbi şi Literaturi Străine.

 

TALKS

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, ‘Testimony and Historical Probability in Crusius’, International workshop Assent, Belief, and Testimony in Kant and his Predecessors, online (Univ Frankfurt), 28-30 April 2022.
  2. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Méthode philosophique et pensée par soi-même: Lectures de Kant à l’Académie de Berlin”, Journée d’étude internationale Kant et l’Académie de Berlin, Univ. Montréal, Canada, 11 May 2022.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, ‘“Neither a sceptic, nor a dogmatic, rather both at the same time” – The Critical Kant and the Berlin Academy’, Leuven Kant Conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgia, 26-28 May 2022.
  4. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Réflexions sur l’utilité de l’Académie de Berlin”, Colloque international Philosophie, histoire et sciences à l’Académie de Berlin, Institut Historique Allemand, Paris şi online, 16-17 November 2022.
  5. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “Eclectic Philosophy and Selbstdenken from Thomasius to the Berlin Academy”, International Conference The Driving Ideas of the German Enlightenment, Univ. of Bucharest, 10-11 November 2022.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, “Self-Perfecting as Self-Healing. Philosophical Therapies at the Origins of the German Enlightenment”, International Conference The Driving Ideas of the German Enlightenment, University of Bucharest, 11 November 2022.
  7. Alessandro Nannini, “A Pilgrimage to Truth. Aesthetics as “methodos” in Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten”, “Reisen und Religion im (langen) 18. Jahrhundert”. VI. Internationaler Kongress für Pietismusforschung, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 30 August 2022.
  8. Alessandro Nannini, “La philosophie du corps chez Baumgarten”, Research Group Sapere aude. Philosophie allemande au 18ème siècle, Université Paris VIII, Paris, 11 JUne 2022.
  9. Alessandro Nannini, “Somaestetica in Baumgarten? La fondazione dell’estetica e il corpo”, 20th Congress of the Italian Society of Aesthetics, University of Padua, 7 June 2022.
  10. Alessandro Nannini, “Emancipazione della sensibilità? Cassirer, Baumgarten e la fondazione dell’estetica”, Seminar Emancipazione della sensibilità?, Università dell’Aquila, 14 May 2022.
  11. Alessandro Nannini, “A Estética de Baumgarten. Da aisthesis à beleza, da beleza à aisthesis”, Seminarul de cercetare A estética de Baumgarten al echipei de cercetare “Iluminismo à Contraluz”, University of São Paulo, (and online), 28 April 2022.
  12. Alessandro Nannini, “Baumgarten the Beautician. The Origins of Cosmetics as an Aesthetic Discourse”, Panel English, French, and German Origins in Aesthetics, Bucharest-Princeton Virtual Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, online, 12 April 2022.
  13. Sorana Corneanu, “Logic as a Therapeutic Art in the Early Eighteenth Century”, Philosophie et Médecine: santé, maladie, salut à l’époque cartésienne, Lecce University and online, 31 March 2022.
  14. Sorana Corneanu, “Locke, the Art of Reasoning and the Freedom of the Understanding”, Annual John Locke Conference, American University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, 21-23 June 2022.
  15. Sorana Corneanu, “Writing the History of Early Modern Logic”, BCS Research Seminar, Bucharest, 26 October 2022.
  16. Alexandra Bacalu, “Inward Exercise, Ingenuity, and Enthusiasm in Shaftesbury’s Characteristics”, Princeton-Bucharest Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, online, 12 April 2022.
  17. Alexandra Bacalu, “A Pocket-Mirror for the Fancies: Shaftesbury on Self-Division, Self-Reflection, and the Freedom of Thought”, The 21st International Conference Language, Literature, and Cultural Policies: Mirari, Mirabilia, Mirror: Reflections of Reality in Literature and Linguistics, Craiova, 21-22 October 2022.
  18. Cristian Vulpe, “A Dispositional Theory of Practical Basing”, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPHIA 2022), Salzburg, 7-9 September 2022.

 

2023

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Christian Leduc (eds.), Debates, Controversies and Prizes. Philosophy in the German Enlightenment, London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024 (ISBN 9781350348646).
  2. Alessandro Nannini, Il segno e l’immagine. Estetica e semiotica delle arti da Du Bos a Lessing, Milano, Mimesis, 2023 (ISBN 9788857595061).
  3. Sorana Corneanu, R. Somerset and J.-J. Chardin (eds.), Ordering Knowledge: Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity, Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023 (ISBN 9791034401338).
  4. Alexandra Bacalu, Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023 (ISBN: 978-90-04-51730-1/ ISBN: 978-90-04-20283-2.)

Special Issues

  1. ‘Emancipation from Metaphysics? Natural History, Natural Philosophy and the Study of Nature from the late Renaissance to the Enlightenment’, special issue of Perspectives on Science, edited by Oana Matei and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet,  early print 2023; print 2024.
  2. ‘The Cure of the Imagination. Intersections between Pedagogy, Medicine, and Aesthetics in the Enlightenment’, special issue of Intellectual History Review, edited by A. Nannini, T. Prunea-Bretonnet and S. Corneanu, forthcoming 2024.

Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Wolff and Crusius on the Duty to Love”, in S. Schierbaum, M. Walshots, J. Walsh (eds.), Christian Wolff’s German Ethics. New Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024.
  2. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Crusius and Kant on distinctness, certainty and method in philosophy”, in A. Hahmann and S. Klingner (eds.), Kant and Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 145-163.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Drives, Inclinations, and Perfectibility: Leonhard Cochius’ Response to the 1768 Prize Question”, in T. Prunea-Bretonnet, Ch. Leduc (eds.), Debates, Controversies and Prizes. Philosophy in the German Enlightenment, London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
  4. Alessandro Nannini, „Baumgarten the Beautician. The Origins of Cosmetics as an Aesthetic Discourse”, Aesthetica Preprint, 120 (2022) [2023], pp. 159-172.
  5. Alessandro Nannini, „Impetus aestheticus. Baumgarten on Physics and Aesthetics”, in Oana Matei şi Tinca Prunea (eds.), ‘Emancipation from Metaphysics? Natural History, Natural Philosophy and the Study of Nature from the late Renaissance to the Enlightenment’, special issue of Perspectives on Science, early print 2023, pp. 1-71; https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00617.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, „Clinical Aesthetics. Johann Christian Bolten and the Aesthetic Origins of Psychotherapy”, Intellectual History Review, special issue The Cure of the Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Age of the Enlightenment (accepted, forthcoming, 2024).
  7. Alessandro Nannini, “Aesthetics as Apolaustic. Baumgarten and the Controversy over Sensitive Pleasures”, in T. Prunea-Bretonnet and C. Leduc (eds.), Debates, Controversies, and Prizes: Philosophy in the German Enlightenment, London: Bloomsbury, 2024 (accepted, forthcoming).
  8. Alessandro Nannini, “A Pilgrimage to Truth. Aesthetics as “ars apodemica” in Alexander G. Baumgarten“, in T. Ruhland, C. Soboth, (eds.), Reisen und Religion im (langen) 18. VI. Internationaler Kongress für Pietismusforschung, Halle, Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen [under review].
  9. Alessandro Nannini, „La dieta di Baumgarten. Esercizio fisico, salute e bellezza”, Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, 15/2, 2022 [2023], pp. 137-146.
  10. Alessandro Nannini, “Habits of Beauty. Towards a “hexiologia aesthetica” in the Early Modern Period”, Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico [under review].
  11. Alessandro Nannini,  “Eclectic Aesthetics. The Construction of Disciplinary Aesthetics in Late-Enlightenment Manuals”, in Tinca Prunea and Sophie Roux (eds.), Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Leiden, Brill, (accepted).
  12. Alessandro Nannini [with Elisabeth Décultot], „Sulzers Physik der Seele“, in Johann Georg Sulzer, Schriften zu Psychologie und Ästhetik, vol. 2 di Johann Georg Sulzer, Gesammelte Schriften. Kommentierte Ausgabe, 2014-, Basel, Schwabe, 2023.
  13. Alessandro Nannini, “Unspoken Syllogisms and Latent Figures. The Art of Innuendo at the Origins of Modern Aesthetics”, in F. Saggini, D. Poston, A. Schoene (eds.), Silence in Eighteenth-Century Arts, History and Philosophy, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2024 (forthcoming).
  14. Alessandro Nannini, Johann Georg Sulzer, Schriften zu Psychologie und Ästhetik. Kommentierte Ausgabe hrsg. von E. Décultot und Alessandro Nannini, Basel: Schwabe, 2023 (forthcoming, December 2023, XXXVIII + 650 pp.).
  15. Alessandro Nannini, “Transfiguration, Art, Pathicity. Somaesthetics Reconsidered”, ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics (forthcoming, December 2023).
  16. Alessandro Nannini, [Review] Olga Katharina Schwarz, Rationalistische Sinnlichkeit: Zur philosophischen Grundlegung der Kunsttheorie 1700 bis 1760 Leibniz – Wolff – Gottsched – Baumgarten, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, “Studi di estetica”, 22/3 (forthcoming).
  17. Alessandro Nannini, [Review] Gil Morejón, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 216 pp., “Acta Comeniana. International Review of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History”, 36, 2022 (2023, forthcoming).
  18. Sorana Corneanu, “Science, Poetry and Imagination: Disciplinary Negotiations in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writings on Genius”, in S. Corneanu, R. Somerset and J.-J. Chardin (eds.), Ordering Knowledge: Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity, Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023, p. 65-90.
  19. Sorana Corneanu, “Locke on Education”, in Oxford Handbook of Locke, ed. Patrick Connolly, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  20. Sorana Corneanu, ‘Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Logic and the “Moral Discipline of the Mind” in the Early Enlightenment’, Intellectual History Review, special issue The Cure of the Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Age of the Enlightenment, 2024.
  21. Alexandra Bacalu, „Not a Single Syllogism from Beginning to End”: On Fragmentariness and the Critique of the Novel in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling”, Studia Universitatis. Philologia, Special Issue: Rethinking the Sentimental Eighteenth-Century no. 3 (2023), p. 99-118.
  22. Alexandra Bacalu, „Shaftesbury on Imagination and Enthusiasm in the Practice of Stoic Inward Exercise”, Intellectual History Review, Special Issue The Cure of the Imagination. Intersections of Pedagogy, Medicine and Aesthetics in the Age of the Enlightenment, forthcoming 2024.
  23. Cristian Vulpe, Review of “Tamar Schapiro – Feeling Like It: A Theory of Inclination and Will”, Society and Politics, forthcoming 2024.

TALKS

  1. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Libertas philosophandi, liberté de penser et Selbstdenken de Thomasius à Wolff”, Workshop Sapere aude, Univ. Paris 8 – St. Denis, 18 February 2023.
  2. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „The Freedom of Thought from Wolff to the Berlin Academy”, All Souls Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History, Univ. of Oxford, 9 March 2023.
  3. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, „Locke at the Berlin Academy”, Conference Rethinking Enlightenment: The Reception of John Locke in Germany, Univ. Gutenberg, Mainz, 30 August-3 September 2023.
  4. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, “’En le faisant raisonner lui-même’: Frederick on the autonomy of reason and the philosophical spirit”, Conference Frederick the Great and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Univ. of Bucharest, 3-4 November 2023.
  5. Alessandro Nannini, ‘“Viel Glück zum neuen collegio”! Frederick the Great, Wolffianism and Meier’s course on Locke’, Conference Frederick the Great and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Univ. of Bucharest, 3-4 November 2023.
  6. Alessandro Nannini, L’élan esthétique comme jeu: Kant entre Baumgarten et Garve, XVIe Congrès de la Société internationale d’Études Kantiennes de Langue Française (SiEKLF), Univ. of Vienna, 28 September 2023.
  7. Alessandro Nannini, 1 – Ars pulchre cogitandi. On an Early Definition of Aesthetics, International Workshop “Logic and Human Nature. Early Modern and Enlightenment Confluences”, Univ. of Bucharest, 6 Septembre 2023.
  8. Alessandro Nannini, Dialectic of the Aufklärung. Enlightenment and Obscuration in the German 18th Century, International Congress “Scientiae. Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World”, Univ. of  Prague, 9 June 2023.
  9. Sorana Corneanu, “’To be in error is our lot in life’: Frederick and the controversy over prejudices”, Conference Frederick the Great and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Univ. of Bucharest, 3-4 November 2023.
  10. Sorana Corneanu, “Thinking for oneself and with or against others: Approaches to the history of ‘prejudice’”, BCS Research Seminar, Univ. of Bucharest, 6 December 2023.
  11. Alexandra Bacalu, „The Imagination as ‘Arch-Faculty’: Popular Psychology and Circulating Devotional Exercises in Seventeenth-Century Treatises on the Government of Thoughts”, Constructions of Identity XI: Transmission, Univ. Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, 19 May 2023.
  12. „From Imaginative Depravity to Imaginative Regeneration: Self-Transformation and the Crisis of Rationality in Devotional Writings on the Government of Thoughts”, ISIH 2023: Crisis and Change in Intellectual History since c. 1450, Univ. of Edinburgh, 5 September 2023.
  13. Alexandra Bacalu, „The Treatise on the Government of Thoughts in the Seventeenth Century: Rearticulating the Imagination and its Remedies”, ICUB Lunchtime Seminar, ICUB – Humanities Division, 23 November 2023.
  14. Cristian Vulpe, “Self-Consciousness, Inference, and Rational Agency,” The 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 11), Univ. of Vienna, 21 – 25 August 2023.

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