Faculty colloquium XI: Mogens Laerke

Date
Wednesday 19 Jun 2019, 16:00 - 17:30
Type
Lecture
Room
C1-1
Building
Theil Building
Location
Campus Woudestein
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The faculty colloquia aim to cover the broad scope of Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil), in analytic and continental philosophy as well as the history of philosophy. Speakers are free in their choice of the subject-matter of their talks, but are requested to present a talk accessible to all philosophers, students notably included.

About the speaker

Mogens Laerke is a senior researcher, CNRS, France. Member of the Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (IHRIM, UMR 5317) at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon).

About the lecture

The long seventeenth century produced scores of political texts in which physiological conceptions of the state occupied a central place, from the monarchist Edward Forset’s 1606 Comparative Discourse of the Bodies Natural and Politique to John Toland’s decidedly republican State Anatomy of 1713. The most famous, among them, however, is Thomas Hobbes’s depiction of the state as an “artificial man” in the Leviathan (1651). In this paper, I explore aspects of Hobbes materialist conception of the body politics, his pathology of the body politics, his conception of mind-body relations in the body politics, and a specific psycho-physical pathology, compared by Hobbes to a form of “epilepsy” or “falling-sickness” of the state.

More information

Prof. dr. F.A. Muller - f.a.muller@esphil.eur.nl

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