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Congo in België
Koloniale cultuur in de metropool Vincent Viaene, David Van Reybrouck & Bambi Ceuppens (eds)
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€ 29,95 isbn 978 90 5867 771 6 10/2009 16 x 24 cm Paperback ca. 256 p. nur 694 Alfred Cauchie Reeks Dutch België schiep Congo, maar schiep Congo ook België? In hoeverre werd het 20ste-eeuwse België voor een stuk gevormd door zijn kolonie? Die vraag stelde de toonaangevende Congolese historicus Isidore Ndaywel enige jaren geleden. Deze interdisciplinaire bundel biedt een antwoord. Congo in België belicht de invloed van de kolonie op de Belgische cultuur en samenleving, van hoog tot laag. Want kolonialisme is geen eenrichtingsverkeer. In Tervuren, bij nationale optochten en in klaslokalen zie je hoe Congo België mee inkleurde. Maar ook in de politiek, de media en de kunsten. Het gaat evengoed om de nesteling van Congo in de massacultuur van missieverhalen en speelfims, in de samenstelling van Belgische gezinnen of in de herinneringen van gewone mensen aan de voormalige kolonie. Het boek vormt zo een kaleidoscoop van het verschil dat Congo – en de Congolezen– maakten in de Belgische geschiedenis.
vincent viaene is als senior onderzoeker verbonden aan kadoc, het Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. david van reybrouck is schrijver. Volgend jaar verschijnt zijn Congo: een geschiedenis, een boek waaraan hij al enkele jaren werkt. In 2008 won hij de Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord. bambi ceuppens heeft een PhD in sociale antropologie van de Universiteit van St Andrews in Schotland en werkt als postdoctoraal onderzoekster in de afdeling Geschiedenis van de Koloniale Tijd in het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika in Tervuren, België. contributors Geert Castryck, Bambi Ceuppens, Bram Cleys, Sabine Cornelis, Maarten Couttenier, Jan De Maeyer, Marc Depaepe, Matthijs De Ridder, Carine Dujardin, Leen Engelen, Kurt Guldentops, Frederik Herman, Godfried Kwanten, Johan Lagae, Wendy Morris, Valentin Mudimbe, Sarah Van Beurden, David Van Reybrouck, Jan Vansina, Tom Verschaffel, Vincent Viaene, Honoré Vinck, Luc Vints.
Geleerd in de tropen, Leuven, Congo & de wetenschap, 1885–1960, Ruben Mantels € 34,50, isbn 978 90 5867 628 3, Paperback, 352 p., 2007, Dutch
De beiaard
Een politieke geschiedenis Marnix Beyen, Luc Rombouts & Staf Vos (eds)
Sinds vijf eeuwen is beiaardmuziek een typisch kenmerk van de steden in de Lage Landen. De beiaard maakt zozeer deel uit van het klankbeeld dat hij nauwelijks nog wordt opgemerkt. Toch heeft precies zijn alomtegenwoordigheid ervoor gezorgd dat mensen allerhande betekenissen aan hem hebben toegekend. Die betekenissen overstijgen het domein van de ‘zuivere’ muziek. De beiaard werd beschouwd als de ‘stem’ van bevolkingsgroepen en als een symbool van de waarden die hun leden met elkaar deelden. Over de afbakening van die groepen en over de inhoud van die waarden bestonden echter uiteenlopende meningen en rezen conflicten. De beiaard werd dus onvermijdelijk een politiek instrument. In België, een land dat doortrokken was van maatschappelijke tegenstellingen, werd hij dat meer dan waar ook. Soms was de beiaard een toonbeeld van burgerlijk-liberale waarden, dan weer van een strijdbaar katholicisme. Nu eens was hij Vlaams, dan weer Belgisch. Door de manieren te onderzoeken waarop de beiaard werd verbeeld, belichten de auteurs van dit boek de geschiedenis van België dan ook vanuit een verrassende hoek.
marnix beyen doceert geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Antwerpen, waar hij ook de Onderzoeksgroep Politieke Geschiedenis leidt. Zijn onderzoek speelt zich af in het gebied waar politiek en cultuur elkaar ontmoeten. luc rombouts is universiteitsbeiaardier van Leuven en stadsbeiaardier van Tienen. Hij verricht onderzoek naar historische en sociale aspecten van de beiaard en publiceerde onder meer studies over achttiende-eeuwse Leuvense beiaardmuziek. staf vos bereidt een proefschrift voor over Belgische dansgeschiedenis tussen 1890 en 1940 en is verbonden aan de Onderzoekseenheid Cultuurgeschiedenis vanaf 1750 van de K.U.Leuven. Hij publiceerde over muziek, dans, historische cultuur en moderniteit. contributors Luc Rombouts, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Imran Uddin, Johan Verberckmoes, Tom Verschaffel, Gustaaf Janssens, Liesbet Nys, Staf Vos, Rajesh Heynickx, Greet Draye, Mark Derez, Marnix Beyen. € 29,95 isbn 978 90 5867 753 2 09/2009 16 x 24 cm Paperback 254 p. nur 694 35 illustrations Alfred Cauchie reeks Dutch

new series Jean-François Lyotard: Ecrits sur l’art contemporain et les artistes/ Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists
general editor Prof. Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
associate editors Vlad Ionescu (Institute of Philosophy, K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Peter W. Milne (Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta,usa)
A central figure of contemporary French philosophy, Jean-François Lyotard is well-known as the theoretician of the postmodern condition. The figural, the differend, the anamnesis, the affect, the inhuman and the sublime are reccurring themes in a philosophy that constitutes a restless attempt to account for feelings and thoughts that resists the boundaries of language. Lyotard’s sensibility towards language, its vicissitudes and its discontents is also materialized in various essays on contemporary visual artists. It is this segment of his work that the series Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists collects in five volumes that offer a complete collection of all of Lyotard’s writings on contemporary art and artists. Some of these essays have only been published in German, French or English. Others are published here for the very first time. Leuven’s five volumes include the complete original French texts along with English translations on facing pages. The parallel presentation of both the French text and the English translation will introduce a wide English-speaking public tothe intriguing manner in which Lyotard approached the artists and their work. Illustrations of the works discussed accompany the texts. All volumesinclude an introduction by Herman Parret and an epilogue by another Lyotard expert. This project is the fruit of a collective initiative by Herman Parret and Vlad Ionescu from the Institute of Philosophy (Leuven University) and other prominent Lyotard specialists – Dalia Judovitz, Geoffrey Bennington and Peter W. Milne – from Emory University, the institution with which Lyotard was associated for many years. Dolorès Lyotard has also been closely involved in this project. The research was carried out mainly at the Doucet Library, where the Lyotard archives are kept, and at the Kandinsky Library of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
This series is available on standing order. To sign up for a subscription to this series or for more information please contact us at info@upers.kuleuven.be. € 39,50 isbn 978 90 5867 756 3 10/2009 16 x 23 cm Hardcover
272 p. 25 colour illustrations nur 736 Jean-François Lyotard Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists – volume 1 English, French
Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur/ Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour
Jean-François Lyotard With an epilogue by Christine Buci-Glucksmann Edited by Herman Parret Translated by Vlad Ionescu & Peter Milne
The first volume in this new series Jean-François Lyotard—Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921–2006). Originally published in German, the book’s original French text, written in 1992 as the result of a correspondence with Karel Appel, is here published for the first time. In his text about Appel, Lyotard reflects on the nature and function of color as it is used by the artist. Karel Appel,A Gesture of Colour brings together, in a special colour section, twenty-five colour reproductions of paintings discussed by Lyotard.
herman parret is full Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. vlad ionescu is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. peter w. milne is researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, ga, usa. christine buci-glucksmann is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at the University of Paris viii, France.
Future publications in the series: • Volume II (Spring 2010) Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres/Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness • Volume III (Fall 2010) Les transformateursDuchamp/ Duchamp’s trans/formers • Volume IV (Spring 2011) Textes dispersés sur l’art contemporain et les artistes/
Various Texts on Contemporary Art and Artists • Volume V (Fall 2011) Que peindre?/What to Paint?
€49,50 isbn 978 90 5867 772 3 11/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover
ca. 240 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-series 1–41 English, French
Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima
Gerd Van Riel & Pierre Destrée (eds)
Aristotle’s treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle’s authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a selection of papers by distinguished scholars, exploring the ancient perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima, from Aristotle’s earliest successors through the Aristotelian Commentators at the end of Antiquity. It constitutes a twin publication with a volume entitled Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima (to be published in the Series ‘Philosophes Médiévaux’, Peeters Publ.), both volumes appearing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the De Wulf Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at K.U. Leuven and U.C. Louvain.
gerd van riel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the K.U. Leuven Institute of Philosophy. His main research areas are Plato and the Platonic tradition, especially later Neoplatonism (Proclus, Damascius), and saint Augustine. pierre destrée is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Institut de Philosophie). His main research area is Aristotelianism, with an emphasis on Aristotle’s Ethics. contributors Enrico Berti, Klaus Corcilius, Frans de Haas, Andrea Falcon, Patrick Macfarlane, Pierre-Marie Morel, Ronald Polansky, R.W. Sharples, Nathanael Stein, Annick Stevens, Joel Yurdin, Marco Zingano.
Willensschwäche in Antike und Mittelalter
Eine Problemgeschichte von Sokrates bis Johannes Duns Scotus Jörn Müller
Mit ‘Willensschwäche’ wird gemeinhin eine Situation gekennzeichnet, in der jemand wider besseres Wissen bzw. gegen seinen eigenen Vorsatz handelt. Die philosophische Relevanz dieses Alltagsproblems liegt in der damit verbundenen Infragestellung unseres Selbstverständnisses als rationale Akteure sowie in der Frage nach den involvierten handlungstheoretischen und psychologischen Erklärungsmustern für ein solches Handeln. Dieses Buch bietet die erste umfassende Geschichte dieses Problems im antiken und mittelalterlichen Denken, die in vier Teilbereichen rekonstruiert wird: (1) die akrasia-Debatte im klassischen Griechenland; (2) das spezifisch christliche Verständnis der Willenschwäche in der Spätantike; (3) die Konzeptualisierung unwilligen Handelns in der Monastik; (4) die scholastische Debatte zwischen ‘Intellektualisten’ und ‘Voluntaristen’ über die Grundlagen der menschlichen Freiheit. Die Studie zeigt sowohl die Entwicklung innerhalb dieser Kontexte an Hand zentraler Autoren als auch deren Verzahnung untereinander auf. Im Schlussteil werden die historischen Resultate für die gegenwärtige Diskussion fruchtbar gemacht.
‘Weakness of the will’ is often used as a shorthand expression to describe a situation in which a person acts against his/her better judgement.This well-known phenomenon poses a serious philosophical problem because it questions deeply our self-understanding as rational agents.This volume offers the first comprehensive investigation into the roots of the present discussion of this subject.Four principal areas constitute the basic framework of the history of this problem: (1) the debate on akrasia in classical Greece; (2) the Christian understanding of weakness of will in late Antiquity; (3) the understanding of involuntary actions in the monastic period; (4) the scholastic controversy between ‘intellectualists’ and ‘voluntarists’ about the roots of human freedom. The book reconstructs the development of the problem within these frameworks and shows how the Greek and the Christian understanding of weakness of the will are intertwined. The final part offers an outlook on the present debate in view of these historical findings.
jörn müller studied philosophy, history and education at Bonn and Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD at Bonn in 2001 with a study on the ethics of Albert the Great. In 2008 he finished his ‘habilitation’ at Bonn. He has been holding a chair for the history of philosophy at the University of Würzburg since October 2007. €135,00 isbn 978 90 5867 752 5 10/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover 816 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-series 1–40 German
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ca. 250 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy- series 1–37 English
Henricus de Gandavo Quodlibet IV
Gordon A. Wilson & Girard J. Etzkorn (eds)
€ 79,50 isbn 978 90 5867 770 9 10/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover
ca.450 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-series 2–8 English Henry of Ghent, the most influential philosopher/theologian of the last quarter of the 13th century at Paris, delivered his fourth Quodlibet during 1279. This Quodlibet was written at the beginning of what could be called the height of his career. In total there are 37 questions, which cover a wide range of topics, including theories in theology, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, ethics, and canon law. In these questions Henry presents his mature thought concerning the number of human substantial forms in which he counters the claims of the defenders of Thomas Aquinas, particularly those in Giles of Lessines’s De unitate formae, but also those found in Giles of Rome’s Contra Gradus. He is critical of Thomas Aquinas’s theories concerning human knowledge, the ‘more’ and the ‘less,’ and virtue. He also is critical of Bonaventure’s analysis of Augustine’s notion of rationes seminales. There are 33 known manuscripts which contain the text of Quodlibet IV, and the critical text is reconstructed based upon manuscripts known to have been in Henry’s school, as well as manuscripts copied from two successive university exemplars in Paris.
gordon a. wilson is Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Asheville, usa. girard j. etzkorn was, prior to his retirement in 1995 a Research Professor at St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Institute.
Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades
Story, Text and Moralism Simon Verdegem
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch’s biography of one of classical Athens’ most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Verdegem’s analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (esp. the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.
simon verdegem is an Associate Staff Member of the Research Unit ‘Literary Studies: Text and Interpretation’ of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. € 69,50 isbn 978 90 5867 760 0 10/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover
ca. 400 p. nur 635 English
Also of interest • A Commentary on Plutarch’s De latenter vivendo,
Geert Roskam € 34,50, isbn 978 90 5867 603 0, Paperback, 279 p., 2007, English
• Plutarch’s Maxime cum princibus philosopho esse disserendum,
An Interpretation with Commentary,
Geert Roskam € 49,50, isbn 978 90 5867 736 5, Hardcover, 252 p., 2009, English