Seventeen scholars in search of an author - or how to bring together perspectives from different disciplines to get a better grasp of a key concept in the human and social sciences. Read More
What happens when different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences consider the author from every angle? Around Alain Deremetz - an author himself because of the interpretative paths he has opened up and because of his clearly recognisable style - several scholars shed light from their varied points of view on a name and a function that history, material conditions and cultural contexts have constantly led to redefine, and thus reveal, beyond the differences of time, constants or striking returns.
The complementary approaches of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary literature, history, anthropology, philosophy and hermeneutics, information and communication studies and educational studies all come together in an investigation that extends from Egyptian and Greco-Latin Antiquity to the twenty-first century.