The Owl's Legacy S01E13 · Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph

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Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existence and public action - sometimes with and sometimes against the Greek legacy.

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1. 1 1. Symposium, or the Received Ideas1989-06-12 · 26mIn Paris, Tbilisi, Athens and Berkeley historians have played with reconstitutions of the "symposium" - the Greek banquet - around tables laden with food and wine.
2. 2 2. Olympics, or the Imaginary Greece1989-06-13 · 26mGreece's inheritance was recomposed in contemporary mythology. This sometimes led to terrible misappropriations for the benefit of totalitarian ideologies - of which Nazism was bor
3. 3 3. Democracy, or the City of Dreams1989-06-14 · 26mWhat exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems? What are the analogies or, on the contrary, the r
4. 4 4. Nostalgia, or the Impossible Return1989-06-15 · 26mIthaca is the iconic distant home that no one should forget: such would be the universal lesson of Homer's Odyssey.
5. 5 5. Amnesia, or the Sense of History1989-06-16 · 26mBuilt on the testimony or "autopsy" - which literally means "seeing oneself" - our conception of History has deeply shifted since Herodotus.
6. 6 6. Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs1989-06-19 · 26mThe geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. How do we articulate its perfect logic to the complexity of co
7. 7 7. Logomachy, or the Root of Words1989-06-20 · 26mAll the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the human animal fights with a specific weapon: speech... Logos' de
8. 8 8. Music, or the Inner Space1989-06-21 · 26mA cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal quests - including with cutting-edge technology - as well as it s
9. 9 9. Cosmogony, or the Use of the World1989-06-22 · 26mThis reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acropolis' Korai on show in Tokyo. This takes us on towards the
10. 10 10. Mythology, or the Truth of Lies1989-06-23 · 26mThere are a set of myths to which we constantly refer ourselves. We will question their genesis, their place in psyche, their transmission, their nature.
11. 11 11. Misogyny, or Desire's Traps1989-06-26 · 26mThe Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where heterosexuality and homosexuality - far from being opposites - w
12. 12 12. Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death1989-06-27 · 26mThe great figures borne out of Greek tragedies help us fathom the founding mechanisms of human practices - all the way to a society like Japan, that is so apparently far from ours.
13. 13 13. Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph1989-06-28 · 26mAround the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existence and public action - sometimes with and sometimes