1. Bruno Pinchard's father is the composer Max Pinchard who gave him a musical education himself.
16 Facts About Bruno Pinchard
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Since 2003, Bruno Pinchard has held the Chair of Philosophy of the Renaissance and the Classical Age at the Universite Jean-Moulin Lyon-III, where he is director of the, Rhone-Alpes region.
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Bruno Pinchard has presented works on Descartes at the University of Chicago and on Rabelais at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Bruno Pinchard has been invited to universities in Quebec and Romania.
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Bruno Pinchard has traveled twice to Israel to present his work on Rabelais and the Jewish tradition.
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Bruno Pinchard has regularly visited China, in particular Sun-Yat-sen University in Canton and Beijing Normal University in Beijing.
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Bruno Pinchard seeks in philosophy to break with the "deconstruction" which reigned over his intellectual generation and calls, in return, for a "Metamorphosis of the philosophia perennis ", that is to say, for the conditions of a rebirth confronting the consequences of the two world wars.
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Bruno Pinchard thus opposes the critical power of duality to the reductions to a constrained unity which, in his eyes, characterize ideologies.
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Bruno Pinchard manages to contain the destructive risk by finding in humanist myths a measure capable of imposing itself on the dividing power of intelligence.
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Bruno Pinchard finds universal expressions of these myths, in particular in Rabelais and in Dante: the giants of the origin and the cult of the Mediterranean goddesses.
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Bruno Pinchard has maintained a constant dialogue with the mathematical work of Rene Thom.
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Bruno Pinchard has sought in the geometry of catastrophes the deep form of these organizing myths.
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Bruno Pinchard found an extension of this point of view in the idea of Capital according to Marx, which could be called a "mythological occasionalism ".
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Bruno Pinchard founded the Societe Dantesque de France in January 2016 and was elected its president.
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Bruno Pinchard contributes to the ongoing research on Rene Thom's work organised, since 2018, by Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Jean Petitot, Isabel Marcos and Clement Morier: Actualites de Rene Thom.
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Bruno Pinchard was co-editor of the Masonic journal Les Cahiers Villard de Honnecourt.