2012 Programme
Event #30
Sergio Givone
Invention and discovery. About creation
The notion of creation stands between the notion of invention and that of discovery. A discovery is said of something that was un-covered, something we did not know but was present and is brought to light. Invention is said of something that was not and stands, so to speak, in a relationship to nothingness. Traditionally, therefore, discovery is attributed to science and invention to art. Yet are we sure that we can be content with this simple conceptual opposition? In actual fact science is no less connected to invention than art, and art with discovery. Still, art and science entail two different ontologies: science has reality for its object, art has the sense of reality.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Florence since 1991. Prior to that, he has taught at the Universities of Perugia and Turin. He was Humboldt- Stipendiat at the University of Heidelberg. He has lectured and held seminars at Stanford, Columbia, Sorbonne Paris VIII, Lille, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Madrid (Autonoma and Complutense), Barcelona. He contributes to a number of journals and newspapers, and in 2002 he has founded the journal “Estetica” of which he is the current editor in chief. His books, translated into many languages, include: Storia del nulla (Laterza, 1995); Eros/ethos (Einaudi, 2000); Prima lezione di estetica (Laterza, 2003); Il bibliotecario di Leibniz (Einaudi, 2005); Metafisica della peste (Einaudi, 2012). He ha salso written a few novels: Favola delle cose ultime (Einaudi, 1998); Nel nome di un dio barbaro (Einaudi, 2002) and Non c’è più tempo (Einaudi, 2008).
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
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Event #4
Andrea Moro
I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries
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Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
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