International audienceIn the last thirty years, the social sciences have shed new light on the concept of nature, on its history and on the cosmology that underpins it. If the concept of nature now appears as a creation of Western modernity, the beginning of its history continues to be identified with the development of the Greek notion of phusis. In this contribution, I use the theoretical apparatus developed in Philippe Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture to criticize this historiographical schema, tacking as a case study the earliest attestations of the word phusis and of the related terms phuō, phuē and euphuēs in the Homeric poems. The article shows that the history of the concept of phusis (or rather, that of the many concepts sign-po...
Human society comes in contact with the physical environment in two ways: Through economic appropria...
en collaboration avec Egidio Festa.International audienceCet article s'inscrit dans le contexte d'un...
605 p.Toute la réflexion du siècle dernier a abouti à élaborer les fondements d'une praxis de la soc...
International audienceIn the last thirty years, the social sciences have shed new light on the conce...
During the XVIIth Century, particularly with Descartes, appeared the modern concept of nature: a nat...
It is a puzzling fact that the Greek term for Nature ‘physis’ could be used to refer to (inter alia)...
International audienceThe richness of the expression ‘archives of nature’, which appeared in the dom...
International audienceTo what extent the distinction between the natural and the artificial can be c...
This work a considerable expansion of an earlier work in French by the same author, and projected ...
International audienceThe richness of the expression ‘archives of nature’, which appeared in the dom...
Everyone who investigates pre-modern concepts of nature cannot avoid a critical reflection on the an...
This thesis looks into Epicurus regardless of the Epicureans, in order to emphasize (part I) the fac...
International audienceThis introduction to the dossier “Looking at nature : Greek and Roman gaze” ex...
Few concepts in Greek philosophical thought are more multi-faceted, analyzed, and disputed than that...
National audienceLa plasticité est un concept opératoire dans la biologie contemporaine. Une enque...
Human society comes in contact with the physical environment in two ways: Through economic appropria...
en collaboration avec Egidio Festa.International audienceCet article s'inscrit dans le contexte d'un...
605 p.Toute la réflexion du siècle dernier a abouti à élaborer les fondements d'une praxis de la soc...
International audienceIn the last thirty years, the social sciences have shed new light on the conce...
During the XVIIth Century, particularly with Descartes, appeared the modern concept of nature: a nat...
It is a puzzling fact that the Greek term for Nature ‘physis’ could be used to refer to (inter alia)...
International audienceThe richness of the expression ‘archives of nature’, which appeared in the dom...
International audienceTo what extent the distinction between the natural and the artificial can be c...
This work a considerable expansion of an earlier work in French by the same author, and projected ...
International audienceThe richness of the expression ‘archives of nature’, which appeared in the dom...
Everyone who investigates pre-modern concepts of nature cannot avoid a critical reflection on the an...
This thesis looks into Epicurus regardless of the Epicureans, in order to emphasize (part I) the fac...
International audienceThis introduction to the dossier “Looking at nature : Greek and Roman gaze” ex...
Few concepts in Greek philosophical thought are more multi-faceted, analyzed, and disputed than that...
National audienceLa plasticité est un concept opératoire dans la biologie contemporaine. Une enque...
Human society comes in contact with the physical environment in two ways: Through economic appropria...
en collaboration avec Egidio Festa.International audienceCet article s'inscrit dans le contexte d'un...
605 p.Toute la réflexion du siècle dernier a abouti à élaborer les fondements d'une praxis de la soc...