Keywords:
Poiesis, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Peter of John Olivi, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Aesthetics, History of Medieval Philosophy
Synopsis
The figure of the maker (artifex) in the Franciscan thought is indicative of a reflection around poietic making often developed through the analogy between divine creation and human production.
The monograph, after an initial part dedicated to the genesis of the idea of the artifex in scriptural, philosophical and rhetorical sources, explores the philosophical constitution of the idea of the maker in the thought of four Friars Minor: Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Peter of John Olivi, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. In the articulation of the poietic process into project, work and fruition, the lines of tendency and invariant aspects are thus outlined, which, despite the significant variation between the different authors, lead one to question, in conclusion, the possibility of a “Franciscan Aesthetics”.
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Author Biography
Amalia Salvestrini
(Milan 1991), after having trained at the University of Milan and obtained a PhD in joint supervision at the FINO Consortium and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), is currently holding a research fellowship at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples with a project entitled From the maker (artifex) to the artist. Philosophy and Art between Giottesque, Friars Minor and Humanists.
Her research mainly concerns the pre-modern origins of aesthetics, the history of rhetoric, medieval theories of knowledge, phenomenological and aesthetic themes, topics on which she has published both a monograph (Bellezza retorica. Un percorso tematico in Nicola di Autrecourt, Prefazione di C. Grellard, Mimesis 2021), as well as a number of scientific articles, and on which she has given university lectures and national and international conferences.
She is a member of a number of research centres (CISS, CIM), societies (SIE, SISPM) and philosophical journals, such as “Doctor Virtualis” (Unimi), “Itinera” (Unimi) and “Filosofia e Teologia” (Milan editorial board). She is membre associé of the Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (Paris, CNRS-EPHE).
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