All are invited to join the upcoming meeting of the *Styles and Method in the Early-Modern and the Modern Period Seminar*
*Carlotta Santini *(CNRS) *'Reading well, writing well, living well. Friedrich Nietzsche and the question of style'* Date: *Monday 11 April 2022* Time: *17.30-19.30 (CEST/Rome Time)* Place: *Online* (Zoom) *No registration needed. Please click *here <http://unive.zoom.us/j/6569494316>* to attend the meeting* ***Please note that the meeting will be recorded to be later uploaded on the website <https://pric.unive.it/projects/epistyle/home>of the project. By participating, you give your consent*** *Abstract* The reflection on style in Nietzsche's philosophical work cannot be circumscribed to a specific period. It is in fact one of the most important leitmotifs of his œuvre, whose treatment, almost never systematic, is entrusted to anecdotes, mottos and quick remarks. Starting with his first study of the complex artificiality and conventionality of ancient literatures, Nietzsche lays the foundations for his future reflections on philosophical language and the great style. This "dispersed" form, however, in no way diminishes the theoretical weight of the considerations on style and modes of writing in Nietzsche's work. The aesthetic paradigm of the Greek literary work, its rigid formalism and exaggerated normativity to which the entire expressive potential of the artwork was entrusted, increasingly takes the form of an ethical paradigm in Nietzsche's reflection. The "unnatural naturalness" of the great style, the creative freedom within the closed realm of convention, which Nietzsche borrows from the experience of ancient rhetoric, drives him to conceive, through words and writings, an ethics of self-determination, a character-shaping action of stylistic choices. In contrast to the popular view according to which Nietzsche is the philosopher of irrationality, he concentrates all his efforts on the codification of a theory of education and self-control, self-determination, which affects not only writing, but also thinking and character, and thus aspires to achieve radical transformations in the human form of life. *Speaker* Carlotta Santini <http://www.umr8547.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique263&lang=fr> is Chargée de Recherche de Classe Normale at CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure (UMR 8547 – Pays Germaniques, Transferts Culturels). Editor of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, she specializes in 19th century German culture and the role played by Greek and Latin classical culture in the development of modern Western culture. *More information* This seminar is organized by Matteo Vagelli and is part of the activities of EPISTYLE <https://pric.unive.it/projects/epistyle/home>. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 101030646. Please visit the website of the project <https://pric.unive.it/projects/epistyle/home> for more information and the complete program. -- Matteo Vagelli, PhD Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Ca' Foscari University of Venice/Harvard University) *Style Matters: Scientific Pluralism and its Early-Modern Sources * https://unive.academia.edu/MatteoVagelli -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
