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LECTURE
Catalin Avramescu: CANIBALUL LA JUDECATA DE APOI. TEORIA RESURECTIEI  
DIN PERIOADA PATRISTICA PANA IN ILUMINISM.



Miercuri, 13 mai 2009, 19.00

Crestinismul apare ca o religie apocaliptica, care propune ideea  
Judecatii de Apoi a trupurilor inviate. Insa scriitorii perioadei  
patristice sesizeaza ca ideea resurectiei trupurilor implica unele  
dificultati logice si practice. In acest context, tratatele asupra  
resurectiei din aceasta perioada izoleaza o dificultate cu totul  
speciala: cazul trupului devorat de antropofag. Aceasta este o  
problema importanta pentru teologii crestini, de la Athenagoras si Sf.  
Augustin pana la Sf. Toma. Teoriile stiintei moderne timpurii, cu  
insistenta lor asupra circulatiei particulelor de materie, se vor  
intersecta cu argumentele patristice in dezbaterile cu privire la  
relevanta crestinismului. In Iluminism, contestarea crestinismului de  
catre partida filozofica va recicla tezele oponentilor teoriei  
resurectiei si va determina o re-orientare catre idei precum teoria  
corpului spiritual. Personajul canibalului, asadar, scrie un episod  
important al dezbaterilor cu privire la indentitatea personala,  
mantuire si atotputernicia divina.

Catalin Avramescu (n. 1967) este doctor in filozofie, docent al  
Universitatii din Helsinki, conferentiar la Facultatea de Stiinte  
Politice (Universitatea Bucuresti), unde preda cursuri de istorie a  
ideilor si de filozofie politica. A fost cercetator la Institul de  
Istorie (Universitatea din Viena) si bursier Marie Curie la Facultatea  
de Filozofie a Universitatii din Ferrara. Ultima carte publicata: An  
Intellectual History of Cannibalism (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Parte a PAVILION magazine lecture series.

Imagine: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Invierea mortilor (detaliu din  
capela Sixtina).

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Catalin Avramescu: THE CANNIBAL AT THE JUDGEMENT DAY. THEORIES OF  
RESURRECTION FROM THE PATRISTIC AGE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Lecture
May 13, 2009, 19.00

The Christianism has the appearance of an apocalyptical religion that  
advances the concept of a final Judgment Day for the resurrected  
bodies. But some of the authors from the patristic period notice that  
the idea of the bodily resurrection poses some logical and practical  
difficulties. From this perspective, the treatises on resurrection  
from this period identify an entirely unusual difficulty: the  
situation of a body that has been devoured by an anthropophagus. It  
represents an important issue for the Christian theologians, from  
Athenagoras and St. Augustine to St. Thomas. Theories of the early  
modern science, with their emphasis on the circulation of the  
particles of matter, intersect with the patristic substantiation on  
the relevance of Christianity. During the Enlightenment, the  
contention of Christianity, lead by the partisans of the philosophy,  
recycles the concepts used by the opponents of the resurrection theory  
and determines a reorientation towards such ideas as the theory of the  
spiritual body. Consequently, the cannibal character influences an  
important episode of the debates on the personal identity, redemption  
and divine omnipotence.

Catalin Avramescu (b. 1967) is a Doctor of Philosophy and a senior  
lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences (Bucharest University),  
where he teaches classes of History of Ideas and of Political  
Philosophy. He is also a docent of the Helsinki University. He worked  
as a researcher at the History Institute from Vienna University, and  
he was granted a Marie Curie fellowship at the Faculty of Philosophy,  
Ferrara University. He has recently published An Intellectual History  
of Cannibalism (Princeton University Press, 2009).

This lecture is part of PAVILION magazine lecture series.

Image: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Resurrection (detail from the Sistine  
Chapel).

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