Course by Visiting Professor: Rémi Brague

This week, we welcome Rémi Brague, renowned philosopher and Ratzinger Prize laureate, as Visiting Professor at the Angelicum. Professor Brague will teach an intensive course titled “Europe’s Philosophical Identity” as part of the 2nd Cycle in Philosophy and of the JP2 Studies program run by the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture. The course will begin on March 23 and continue until March 31. Angelicum students are invited to audit the lectures. 

 

Course description:
Europe is clumsily groping for her political identity. Her far older cultural identity looks easier to assess. Yet, the question of what European culture might be deserves asking. I suggest to look for the sources (not “roots”) of said identity in the basic experiences of the world which are summarized in the names “Athens” and “Jerusalem”, and in the way both were mediated by the Roman experience. Europe’s cultural identity proves to be eccentric: the points of reference are neither inside of the European space nor already given. They have to be acquired by learning. Hence an uninterrupted series of “Renaissances”.

 

Class schedule:
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 10.30-12.15 (Aula 15)
Friday, 24 March 2023, 14.30-16.15 (Aula 5)
Monday, 27 March 2023, 8.30-10.15 (Aula 15)
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 8.30-10.15 (Aula 15)
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 10.30-12.15 (Aula 15)
Friday, 31 March 2023, 14.30-16.15 (Aula 5)

 

Rémi Brague – professor emeritus of philosophy at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and former Romano Guardini Chair of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; renowned scholar of classical and medieval philosophy, culture, and philosophy of religion. In 2012 he received the Ratzinger Prize. His publications include: Europe, la voie romaine (1992); La Sagesse du monde. Histoire de l’expérience humaine de l’univers (1999); La Loi de Dieu. Histoire philosophique d’une alliance (2005); Le Règne de l’ homme: Genèse et échec du projet moderne (2015).

 

If you wish to participate in the course please contact: [email protected]

 

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