La figure de la sophia chez Henry Corbin

La figure de la sophia chez Henry Corbin

by Daniel Proulx

now available on Academia.edu

Abstract

Henry Corbin's loving devotion to wisdom, to sophia, englobes the three terms of this conference. Without dealing directly with the notion of women and erös, this text explores the notion of sophia — philosophically feminine par excellence — in Henry Corbin's opus. This text is a first attempt to understand the Sophianic world as conceived by Henry Corbin. The axis chosen in undertaking this exploration is to rearticulate the influences on Corbin's thought in showing that the emphasis on Heidegger dissimulates the importance of sophia. This axis will also highlight an influence that has remained veiled, the Russian sophiologist Sergei Bulgakov's. In the course of this rearticulation, we will also encounter the sophiologies of Carl Gustav Jung and Nicolai Berdyaev - completing the picture of Western sophiologies present in Corbin's thought.

Book Review via Taylor & Francis online

Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology, edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar, and Bilal Bas, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, xniv + 445 pp., E54.99/$92.99 (cloth)

Chapter Twenty Two: Henry Corbin’s Hermeneutics of Scripture by Hadi Fakhoury

Book Review:

On Methodology and Metaphysics, or What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Religion?

Brayton Polka

Department of Humanities, York University, 

226 Vanier College, 4700 Keele St., 

Toronto M3J 1 PS, Canada

The European Legacy - Towards New Paradigms

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10848770.2016.1161274

An interesting citation...

Phenomenological and contemplative approaches to vigiling with persons who are nearing death.

R Gates - Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 2016

... There is a sense of perceiving the interiority of self and others. According to philosopher and
theologian Henry Corbin (1969), the perceived dualities of inner and outer become one through
“sympathetic union” and something of the soul of others becomes visible. ...

Norman Fischer on the Imagination

Saved From Freezing: Spiritual Practice, Art Practice

from

Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

This essay is just so excellent. He's a hero of mine. Anything he writes is worth reading.

Assemblée générale 2016

Assemblée générale

Association des Amis de Henry et Stella Corbin

le vendredi 20 mai 2016

à l’EPHE

Salle 121, 1e étage, 190 av. de France, 75013 Paris

Ordre du jour : 

Rapport moral : activités de l’année écoulée.

Rapport financier

Activités : site web, publications en cours, 12e Journée Henry Corbin

Questions diverses

Daniel Gastambide, président

Marc Gastambide, trésorier

Pierre Lory, secrétaire

Bienvenue aux membres!

Being & Time & Corbin

You don't see this very often - at least I've not run across it, but here's a course on Heidegger in which Corbin's approach is taken seriously.

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY 

Fall 2015 

Heidegger’s Being and Time 

PHIL 770 TH 3:35-6:20 HUM 384 

Instructor: Dr. Mohammad Azadpur

Full PDF HERE

Nov. 19: Being-Towards-Death Being and Time: “Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-Whole and Being-Towards-Death,” pp. 274- 311. “From Heidegger to Suhrawardi: An Interview with Phillipe Nemo,” Henry Corbin, the first translator of Heidegger into French and the prominent historian of Islamic philosophy, is interviewed,” on iLearn.

Symbolic Cities at the Sackler Gallery

Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater

March 19–September 18, 2016

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Born in 1979 in southern Saudi Arabia and trained as a medical doctor, Ahmed Mater has been a practicing artist since the early 1990s, creating works that offer an unparalleled perspective on contemporary Saudi Arabia. Now based in Jeddah, Mater has focused primarily on photography and video since 2010. From abandoned desert cities to the extraordinary transformation of Mecca, Symbolic Cities presents his visual and aural journeys observing economic and urban change in Saudi Arabia. The exhibition, the first in the United States solely dedicated to Mater, also debuts new works based on his extensive research on Riyadh's development.

An Acoustic Museum of Byzantine Sound

An Acoustic Museum of Byzantine Sound

by Allison Meier in Hyperallergic

The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of that design through sound mapping.

On an episode released last month of the podcast Escape Velocity, created by the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), explained why she became involved in this acoustic archaeology:

"For me as an art historian, I was interested in the perception of sound and how that perception was informed by the setting. When you walk into these buildings, they’re cooler than the outside temperature, they smell different on the inside because they’ve had incense in them burned for centuries, so there’s the palpable change in the atmosphere. They’re dark on the inside and you see the painted figures looming from all sides of the building, looking at you." go to the article with audio files linked.

Our Divine Double

Our Divine Double

Charles Stang

Harvard University Press

March 2016

Henry Corbin figures prominently in the Introduction.

From the Publisher:

What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms throughout the centuries, down to the present. Our Divine Double traces the rise of this ancient idea that each person has a divine counterpart, twin, or alter-ego, and the eventual eclipse of this idea with the rise of Christian conciliar orthodoxy.

Charles Stang marshals an array of ancient sources: from early Christianity, especially texts associated with the apostle Thomas “the twin”; from Manichaeism, a missionary religion based on the teachings of the “apostle of light” that had spread from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean; and from Neoplatonism, a name given to the renaissance of Platonism associated with the third-century philosopher Plotinus. Each of these traditions offers an understanding of the self as an irreducible unity-in-duality. To encounter one’s divine double is to embark on a path of deification that closes the gap between image and archetype, human and divine.

While the figure of the divine double receded from the history of Christianity with the rise of conciliar orthodoxy, it survives in two important discourses from late antiquity: theodicy, or the problem of evil; and Christology, the exploration of how the Incarnate Christ is both human and divine.

Charles M. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School.

Contents:

Introduction: Narcissus and His Double

1. Reading Plato’s Many Doubles

2. Thomas, Who Is Called “Twin”

3. Syzygies, Twins, and Mirrors

4. Mani and His Twin-Companion

5. Plotinus and the Doubled Intellect

6. Whither the Divine Double?

Conclusion