French-language version

HARTUNG-BERGMAN FOUNDATION SEMINAR
JUNE 2011

Hartung-Bergman Foundation

Stéphane Van Damme
Passion for Philosophy and Passion for Equality in the Age of the Enlightenment

PREVIOUS LETTERS THE INFLUENCE OF THE SAINT-SIMONIANS AND THE IDEA OF ART IN THE VANGUARD OF THE SOCIAL REFORM BODY MORALITY DANDIES The Model Child THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE USEFUL Photographs by amateurs The market, at the start art in the republic the voyage of the avant-gardes Major exhibitions WHAT IS SOCIAL ART ? PRIMITIVISMS realisms JOSEPH BEUYS : A SHAMAN's FACTORY ? the Artist and the philosopher appropriations THE OPACITIES OF THE TECHNOLOGY Alternatives to the art market in new york genius PREHISTORIES POSTWAR MONEY Icons THE POWER OF ARTISTS values in formation nominalism ANCIENT ROME ON EVALUATION NEW SOVIET FASHIONS KLEINIAN ECONOMICS POLICIES OF THE REAL TOCQUEVILLE AND THE ARTS IN DEMOCRACY an elitist aesthetic for everyone The artist as teacher The equal of history

 
   

    Stéphane Van Damme, whom we admire for his works on the Age of Enlightenment, has reread for us the work of Tocqueville, a man who, in his love for individual freedom, mistrusted equality.  Van Damme helps us to understand how, between the scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, positions on equality were readied within the scientific world before being activated in the political field.  He resituates equality within a network of norms and practices and sees it manifested even within the very way nature was represented.