Stephane Symons
Biographic Data
| ID | 7533033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephane Symons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephane |
| FAMILY NAME | Symons |
| SIGNATURE | SYMONS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Inertia to the Absolute: On Visuality and Religion in Jean Labatut
This article offers an analysis of the ideas of the French architect Jean Labatut, who was the director of graduate studies at Princeton’s Department of Architecture in the post-Second World War years (1949–67). Throughout his career at Princeton (1928–67) he developed a pedagogical system centred on a visual engagement with the built environment. As a progressive Catholic, Labatut integrated spiritual concerns within his educational programme at…
Genealogies of the Secular: The Making of Modern German Thought
Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.
So What's New about Scholasticism: How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century
At the Crossroads between Catholicism and Modernist Art
The French Dominican monk and artist, Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954) was initially trained as a painter. He went on to become a friar at Le Saulchoir in Belgium, receiving his ordination in 1930. Largely recognized as the figure at the centre of the debate on the role of apostolic art in the 1940s and 1950s in France, he was a friend of many pioneers of modernist art, such as Braque, Matisse, and Picasso. Through this, he was an interlocutor b…
A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70: Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70
Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend
The Ability to Not-Shine the Word "Unscheinbar" in the Writings of Walter Benjamin
This article renders a close reading of those passages in Walter Benjamin's work where he uses the term “unscheinbar.” Arguing that this concept cannot be reduced to its privative prefix “un-,” the article explores how moments in time, objects or images that are not meaningful in themselves can nevertheless trigger an experience that is to be called such. The article analyzes Benjamin's ideas on friendliness, commemoration, melancholy, mémoire in…
A Close Reading of Georg Simmel's Essay "How Is Society Possible?" The Thought of the Outside and Its Various Incarnations
Georg Simmel's essay “How Is Society Possible?” is built on the idea that an individual can develop himself or herself fully only by entering into society but nevertheless remains marked with an “in-addition” or “individuality-nucleus” that is never entirely socialized. In this manner, Simmel describes how a fundamental gap cannot but separate the essence of an individual from his or her expression in society, how he or she occupies the singular …
Lacan's Concept of Desire and its Vicissitudes
Deleuze and the Various Faces of the Outside
Deleuze and the Various Faces of the Outside Stephane Symons (bio) I At a certain moment Fritz Lang’s film ‘M’ shows how a whole city becomes so obsessed with finding a serial killer that the two most powerful forces of a town develop, independently from each other, their own strategy to track him down: while the police department proceeds with its investigation by focusing on his apartment, his habits or the brand of cigarettes he supposedly smo…
The Ability to Not-Shine the Word "Unscheinbar" in the Writings of Walter Benjamin
This article renders a close reading of those passages in Walter Benjamin's work where he uses the term “unscheinbar.” Arguing that this concept cannot be reduced to its privative prefix “un-,” the article explores how moments in time, objects or images that are not meaningful in themselves can nevertheless trigger an experience that is to be called such. The article analyzes Benjamin's ideas on friendliness, commemoration, melancholy, mémoire in…
Deleuze and the Various Faces of the Outside
Deleuze and the Various Faces of the Outside Stephane Symons (bio) I At a certain moment Fritz Lang’s film ‘M’ shows how a whole city becomes so obsessed with finding a serial killer that the two most powerful forces of a town develop, independently from each other, their own strategy to track him down: while the police department proceeds with its investigation by focusing on his apartment, his habits or the brand of cigarettes he supposedly smo…
Lacan's Concept of Desire and its Vicissitudes
A Close Reading of Georg Simmel's Essay "How Is Society Possible?" The Thought of the Outside and Its Various Incarnations
Georg Simmel's essay “How Is Society Possible?” is built on the idea that an individual can develop himself or herself fully only by entering into society but nevertheless remains marked with an “in-addition” or “individuality-nucleus” that is never entirely socialized. In this manner, Simmel describes how a fundamental gap cannot but separate the essence of an individual from his or her expression in society, how he or she occupies the singular …
Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend
The Ability to Not-Shine the Word "Unscheinbar" in the Writings of Walter Benjamin
This article renders a close reading of those passages in Walter Benjamin's work where he uses the term “unscheinbar.” Arguing that this concept cannot be reduced to its privative prefix “un-,” the article explores how moments in time, objects or images that are not meaningful in themselves can nevertheless trigger an experience that is to be called such. The article analyzes Benjamin's ideas on friendliness, commemoration, melancholy, mémoire in…
At the Crossroads between Catholicism and Modernist Art
The French Dominican monk and artist, Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954) was initially trained as a painter. He went on to become a friar at Le Saulchoir in Belgium, receiving his ordination in 1930. Largely recognized as the figure at the centre of the debate on the role of apostolic art in the 1940s and 1950s in France, he was a friend of many pioneers of modernist art, such as Braque, Matisse, and Picasso. Through this, he was an interlocutor b…
A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70: Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70
So What's New about Scholasticism: How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century
Genealogies of the Secular: The Making of Modern German Thought
Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theology and modernity.
From Inertia to the Absolute: On Visuality and Religion in Jean Labatut
This article offers an analysis of the ideas of the French architect Jean Labatut, who was the director of graduate studies at Princeton’s Department of Architecture in the post-Second World War years (1949–67). Throughout his career at Princeton (1928–67) he developed a pedagogical system centred on a visual engagement with the built environment. As a progressive Catholic, Labatut integrated spiritual concerns within his educational programme at…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Architecture (2 works)