Projects
Historiography, imagination and astronomy in the Renaissance (1400-1650). Ghent University
Dialectical Reasoning and Topical Argument in the Renaissance: an Inquiry into the Commentaries on Aristole's Topics (1300-1650) KU Leuven
The research project Dialectical Reasoning and Topical Argument in the Renaissance: an Inquiry into the Commentaries on Aristotle's ‘Topics’ (1300-1650) aims to provide an original contribution to a larger question concerning the modern genealogy of the concepts of “evidence”, “reliable knowledge”, and “testimony” via a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. The underlying anthropological dimension of these notions calls for further ...
U+201CA socio-literary rebirth of classical tragedy after NietzscheU+201D. A poetical receptionstudy of the social integration of a U+2018classicalU+2019 tragic condition in German literary and dramatic texts at the beginning of the 20th-c Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the reception of the material, language- and formstructures of classical tragedy in the dramatic poetical works of the German author Paul Ernst (1866-1933). As a reaction on the contemporary society and inspired by Nietzsche, he engaged his works to create an artistic and social U+2018renaissanceU+2019 of a U+2018tragic conditionU+2019.
Giordano Bruno's Imagination: Art of Memory between magic and Science Ghent University
By a study of Giordano Bruno's art of memory, influenced by his magic, the prominent position of Bruno's imagination is exposed. After the brunian imagination is discussed throughout his memotechnical, magical and philosophical work, it will be placed in a broader context of history of science, to enlarge our vision of the transition period between aristotelian physics and modern science.