Diogenes articles from March 1999

Diogenes archives from March 1999

Introduction.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... In October 1998 the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences followed the tradition of colloquia accompanying the biennial meetings of the statutory General Assembly of its Member Organizations. There was all the more reason...

The Art of Beginnings.
March 22, 1999... When we speak of prehistoric art, we think almost instantly of visual art, although we know that even the least technologically developed peoples on earth also expressed themselves by means of music, dance, gesticulation, and poetry; they...

The `Greek Man' or the Weight of the Roots ...
March 22, 1999... When I was preparing a paper about the problem Greek studies have with globalization of culture on the threshold of the twenty-first century(1), I was asked who the Greek man was, considered as a separate entity, and how future decades would...

On the Shoulders of Giants: Progress and Perspectives in Latin Studies.
March 22, 1999... Cornelius Nepos tells us that when Cato talked of wars, he did not mention the generals' names, but stuck to events without ever glorifying the protagonists. He saw the military exploits themselves as important and not the pride they might...

History: From Moral Science to the Computer.
March 22, 1999... In order to understand history as it has been practised in the twentieth century, we must go back in time. Not necessarily to Herodotus and Thucydides, nor even to the great founding figures of the ages of learning and of the Enlightenment,...

`Sire, The People Are Hungry!' `Let Them Have Symbols!' Literary and Linguistic Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
March 22, 1999... This title is playful, of course. It is designed merely to attract curiosity and attention... It dates back to a childhood game of which I have forgotten both rules and stakes. An imaginary sovereign was roused from his indifference and...

Endangered Languages, Multilingualism and Linguistics.
March 22, 1999... As the last century of the present millennium is drawing to a close and the first century of the next one is looming on the horizon, linguistics and the fate of many of the 6000 languages on our planet is poised on a watershed, looking at a...

Goals and Duties of Linguistics in China at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
March 22, 1999... The twenty-first century is close at hand. This great historical turning-point demands that we contemplate the future as best we can. Confronting the third millennium, many disciplines, linguistics included, have reached a time to take stock....

The History of Art between the 20th and the 21st Century.
March 22, 1999... With the new millennium approaching, to sketch the wider canvas of the state of art historical research at the end of the 20th century is hardly a realistic objective. For those who like to delve deeper into this matter, I heartily recommend...

L'Empedocle de Strasbourg.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Alain Martin and Oliver Primavesi, L'Empedocle de Strasbourg (P. Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666). Edited with introduction and commentary, Bibliotheque Nationale et Universitaire of Strasbourg and Walter de Gruyter, Berlin -- New York, 1999. ...

On Nature, or On Being.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Parmenides, On Nature, or On Being, text, translation, and commentary by Barbara Cassin, `Points,' Paris, Ed. Seuil, 1998. The first impression left by this volume is that this is above all, a new type of philosophical thought. Through her...

The Healing of the Nations: Humanism Beyond Racism, Relativism, and Corporation.
March 22, 1999... The discipline of anthropology was established in the 19th century to answer one major question, viz., Why are we different? The first answer was provided by anthropologists educated in the biological sciences, principally doctors and...