https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1152 Numéros fr mer., 24 janv. 2024 14:11:24 +0100 lun., 20 juil. 2026 16:23:49 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1152 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1153 mer., 24 janv. 2024 14:13:15 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1153 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1159 mer., 24 janv. 2024 14:33:20 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1159 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1160 mer., 24 janv. 2024 14:42:30 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1160 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1161 In De Rerum Natura, the great associations between atoms are unstable and cannot last.  As things move, meaninglessly and in an infinite vacuum, they violently collide with each other, causing everything to unravel. In this article, we ask whether Lucretius also offers us ways of 'practising' catastrophe.  The hypothesis we formulate here is that the choice of poetry constitutes a 'practice' of this worldview. jeu., 25 janv. 2024 16:28:11 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1161 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1166 The opposite and complementary concepts of infinity and limit are essential in Epicurean philosophical speculation and in particular in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Through the analysis of some passages of the I, II, V and VI books, which deal with the question of the infinity of the universe and foreshadow the end of our world, the article will try to show the ethical implications of this teaching about the limit, also in relation to the discussion on death contained in the third book. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 13:46:55 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1166 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1171 In De Rerum Natura, nature is embodied by events happening. Caused by the unpredictable, incalculable deviation (clinamen) of the atoms’ movement, events happen without reason, meaning and scope. Nature is chance. There is no archè from where things come from and which governs those things. Absolutely contingent, abandoned to the consequences of their encounters, those things go adrift. The sage seeks to develop the theoretical and practical implications of Lucrezio’s doctrine of things. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 14:35:08 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1171 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1178 Our study aims at illustrating with a few examples of a still not fully explored tradition how this  outstanding  ancient text, which had almost disappeared from the intellectual scene out of theological considerations, survived as a parched-up spring to eventually become an impetuous river and then, for the same dogmatic reasons, was forced again to follow  a temporarily subterraneous course to soon re-emerge in roughly the same geographical and cultural area where it had once barely survived. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 15:49:49 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1178 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1184 Lucretius’s poem let us perceive the world as a large fabric made of atomic threads and void. Things are woven, the same goes for simulacra, which are very thin fabrics. The events of the world are fabrics that meet or tear, this applies as much to the process that constructs reality as to the way in which we know things. The art of weaving and the mythical-poetic diction which is a consequence of the divine Verwobenheit are the two poles that allow us to understand the meaning of De rerum natura as a simulacral fabric which explains the way of functioning of matter and its processes of organization. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 16:16:50 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1184 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1187 This article essentially consists in deploying the stakes of the following idea of Lucretius: the void is an intangible and vacant place. By closely following these issues, we realize that they are inseparable from the place of emptiness for Nature and that the meet the issues of the relationship between spirit and matter (and the body). Furthermore, they open up avenues that will be taken by philosophies which are more contemporary to us (those of Badiou and Deleuze). Lucretius, by supporting a materialism including the intangible void has contributed more to make possible a materialism of the intangible Time and the event. Since the spirit arises from a series of events, shouldn't it be turned back to what it comes from and on the Place of the void in which we stand (body-and-soul)? It is this twist that this article also attempts to make. jeu., 01 févr. 2024 16:36:30 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1187 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1191 This paper argues that Lucretius ended his epic poem De Rerum Natura with the death of the world and the plague at Athens because he was not merely a philosopher of life and creativity as many scholars believe. For Lucretius, the entropic processes of death and dissolution are the origins of creativity and life. I also argue, against the Epicurean interpretation of Lucretius, that the conclusion of De Rerum Natura shows how different the two thinkers were. In particular, the article looks closely at lines 91-234 of book five and offers an alternative interpretation of Lucretius’ philosophy of history and death in which the ending of the book fits perfectly not despite its darkness but because of it. ven., 02 févr. 2024 11:21:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1191 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1196 In this text the Lucretian concept of “clinamen” is read through the psychoanalytic notion of “clinic” in a Lacanian perspective. The basic idea is that the “clinamen” defines a materialism of the encounter that overturns the posture of critical theory in order to open up a new philosophical gesture that we define as “clinical”. lun., 05 févr. 2024 12:24:18 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1196 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1200 This article focuses on the famous passage of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things where the poet reenacts in a blazing style Thucydides' description of the plague in Athens. The article lays the emphasis on the change of regime of narration of the disaster from the Greek historian to the Roman poet. The author also attempts to read Lucretius' purple passage in the light of the present pandemic – Covid 19. mar., 06 févr. 2024 09:00:02 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1207 mar., 06 févr. 2024 10:02:53 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1207 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1211 mar., 06 févr. 2024 10:56:45 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1211 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1298 mar., 13 févr. 2024 14:03:51 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1298 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1300 mar., 13 févr. 2024 14:19:37 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1300 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1212 mer., 07 févr. 2024 09:50:40 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1212 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1216 mer., 07 févr. 2024 11:05:56 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1216 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1217 mer., 07 févr. 2024 11:39:53 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1217 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1219 mer., 07 févr. 2024 12:02:26 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1219 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1221 mer., 07 févr. 2024 14:23:08 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1221 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1223 mer., 07 févr. 2024 15:45:53 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1223 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1226 mer., 07 févr. 2024 16:00:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1226 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1228 jeu., 08 févr. 2024 09:20:12 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1228 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1230 jeu., 08 févr. 2024 09:41:51 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1230 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1231 This paper aims to show how Clément Rosset's thought of anti-nature has renewed the interpretation of De rerum natura. For Rosset meaning of the word natura as used by Lucretius is as far as possible from the Aristotelian meaning of nature that so deeply informs the occidental concept of nature. Natura means by Lucretius absolute rejection of any form of finalism. Everything that is born is the result of chance. This observation has the consequence of abolishing the border between natural production and artistic production. Such an abolition must be compared to the analogy between the combination of letters and that of atoms as developed by Lucretius in his poem. Target of the anti-Epicurean controversy which tries, in vain to turn it over into a finalist perspective, this analogy allows us to think of the production of matter and that of the text as a production under the sign of chance and insignificance. Rosset and Francis Ponge, another great reader of Lucretius, deploy the ethical consequences of this nsignificance to achieve an aesthetic of happiness. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 10:06:06 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1231 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1238 In Hans Blumenberg's investigation of the Lucretian metaphor of the shipwreck with a spectator, a reflection on the sublime is absent. Through a rereading of Leopardi's The Infinite in the light of this metaphor, we want to show that the feeling of the sublime necessarily enters into the consideration of life as a shipwreck. This perspective brings us back to the anthropological turning point of the late Blumenberg in the passage from the notion of "absolute metaphor" to that of "metaphor of existence". jeu., 08 févr. 2024 11:04:50 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1238 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1244 The essay attempts to investigate the echoes of the form that the sublime takes in Lucretius' poetry in Schiller's aesthetic theory, hypothesising a removed presence of the materialistic tradition in the modern elaboration of the sublime, whose reflections reach as far as Nietzsche. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 11:39:14 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1244 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1249 The naturalism of Lucretius, to which Deleuze in the sixties dedicates an essay later collected in Logic of sense, plays a significant role in the entire thought of the French philosopher, for at least two aspects. First of all, atomism and pluralism return with evidence in the construction of a philosophy of difference, especially in Difference and Repetition but also in other texts. Second, the description of the encounter with simulacra in perception resonates with the idea of the violent encounter with the signs of sensibility, the only mode of emergence of true thought according to Deleuze. In the article I would like to develop this idea by linking it to another book of those years, namely the volume on Proust. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 14:49:56 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1249 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1255 Since the 70’s Deleuze and Althusser have been reflecting and have elaborating their philosophy in the reinterpretation of the Latin poet, De rerum natura’s work. Their methods, both contrasting and linear, remain a deeply contemporary approach to building an alternative to idealism and materialism dialectic. This will de done through the use of the concept of assembly which is the point of convergence between Deleuze and Althusser from which a power of dismissal can be unfolded with numerous adjuncts and implementations. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 16:03:48 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1255 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1260 This paper investigates Lucretius and Spinoza’s materialism like a perspective oriented on the problem of the event. The first part, in particular, is dedicated to the discussion of the physical and ethical aspects of the Lucretian concept of clinamen, intended as the expression of an event that breaks the continuity of the uniform rectilinear motion of matter. The last part attempts to trace, within the Lucretian theory of simulacra, a path of emancipation of our ability to imagine, on the model of the theory of knowledge formulated by Spinoza in Ethics. The aim is to outline an idea of vision as an event in which the viewer takes shape together with what he sees. jeu., 08 févr. 2024 16:29:40 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1260 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1262 The real according to Lucretius refuses the theater, it defies the powers of the theater and its apparatus: how can one give a theatrical account of the invisible vortex of atoms? How can one be a spectator of this vortex without being a god? How can one experience the shocks of the atoms, the unfounding Nature collectively? This article proposes to consider, through the analysis of Maguy Marin's performance Turba, the ways in which the theater can help us perceive the unfounding Nature and what political experiences can emerge from this sensory and philosophical experience. ven., 09 févr. 2024 09:32:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1262 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1266 In this article, we’ll suggest some general ideas about nature and culture concepts. Those concepts will be to link with the music of Luciano Berio (1925-2003). This initiation hopes to bring out a Lucrecian approach in the Laborintus II (1965) of Berio. And also we’ll hope to bring out an implied social ecology dimension in this work. ven., 09 févr. 2024 10:35:14 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1266 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1271 Calvinian writing resembles that of Lucretius in that it is a cosmic writing, which intends not only to describe the universe but also to take up certain founding principles in its very form. A cosmogonic writing, “metaphor for the particulate substance of the world” (Six Memos for the Next Millennium), that conceives of the void as the place where everything can happen and where things like letters can unfold, combine, build and deconstruct. ven., 09 févr. 2024 11:15:03 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1271 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274 Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub (1704) was, he claimed, a satire on corruptions in religion and learning written in defense of the Church of England. The atomistic materialism of De Rerum Natura, with its rejection of an incorporeal spirit or soul and its critique of providence, was accordingly one of the principal targets of the Tale; Swift’s contemporaries, however, feared that his parody was an application and extension of, rather than an attack on, Lucretius’ philosophy. Swift’s text shows their fears were well founded. ven., 09 févr. 2024 14:10:40 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1274 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1279 The essay want to find in the poetic work of Pier Paolo Pasolini the vestigia of the lucretian materialism. In Rome, Pasolini find in suburbs a new dimension that enables him to think a non naturalistic nature: the creatures, what power and history removes. Poetry can find their traces and invent a memory of what has no memory, the clinamen, the un-ground, imprevedible borning of something (res) for which it's possible to resist the catastrophe of Neocapitalism. ven., 09 févr. 2024 14:40:35 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1279 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 In Lucretius' poem, the knowledge of natural phenomena offers an understanding of things capable of freeing human beings from ignorance and fears. This prescriptive dimension of nature seems foreign to modernity. In the present work, we start from this presumed difference between the two forms of investigation to show that science, despite the communis opinio, actually possesses a normative charge. In the last section, we will consider the prescriptive dimension of contemporary science to tackle the issues emerging from the current ecological crisis. ven., 09 févr. 2024 15:13:24 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1282 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1323 lun., 08 avril 2024 14:40:28 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1323