Stoicism and French Philosophy from Sartre to Badiou

Alice is no longer able to make her way to the depths. Instead, she releases her incorporeal double. ... This is a Stoic discovery.

G. Deleuze, Logic of Sense

Date: January 4-6 2016

Venue: 11 Woodland Road, University of Bristol

Overview

This three-day conference was the first in a series on ancient Greek and Roman stoicism and modern continental philosophy. It was hosted by the University of Bristol, and was underwritten by the Bristol Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition.

The convenor was Kurt Lampe (University of Bristol). Speakers included:

Olivier D’Jeranian (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne): ‘Sartre, Stoicism, and the Problem of Moral Responsibility (from 1939 to 1948)’;
Suzanne Husson (Université de Lorraine): ‘Ontologie sartrienne et the´orie stoi¨cienne des incorporels’;
Laurent Husson (Université Paris-Sorbonne): ‘Ontologie sartrienne et the´orie stoi¨cienne des incorporels’;
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (Centre Léon Robin): ‘“L’arbre verdoie”: the influence of Emile Bréhier’s Théorie des incorporels on Deleuze’;
Janae Sholtz (Alvernia University): ‘Deleuzean Exercises and the Inversion of Stoicism’;
Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol): ‘Being-Soldier: Stoic Metaphysics according to Deleuze and Lucan’s Civil War’;
T. Bénatouïl (Université Lille 3): ‘How and why did Badiou beat Deleuze with a Stoic stick (and was he right?)’;
John Sellars (King’s College London): ‘Indifference and Affirmation: Michel Foucault on Stoic Fate and Providence’;
Valéry Laurand (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3): ‘Véridiction et parrhêsia, le cas complexe du stoïcisme et sa lecture par M. Foucault’;
Robin Weiss (The American University in Cairo): ‘Foucault on Acting in Accord with Nature’;
Nicoletta Di Vita (Università degli studi di Padova): ‘La philosophie stoïcienne du langage dans la pensée de Giorgio Agamben’;
Clifford Robinson (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia): ‘The Political Function of Agamben’s ‘Stoic Providence-Fate Apparatus’ in Seneca’s Ad Polybium de consolatione’.