Code
01D31008
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
René Girard
symptomatology
Nietzche
Project description
A confrontation of the symptomatologies (psychophysiological explanations of behaviour and discourse) in Nietzche and Girard concerning the phenomena reactivity, dematerialization, theatrality and genius a study of the implictions of their symptomatologies in terms of cultural criticism (in the light of the concepts beauty, love and truth) and of the methodological problems tied with their symptomatologies (circularity, the role of language, …)