Medieval and modern Aristotelian traditions in contexts : empires and the politics of logic
In contrast to historiographical practices that focus solely on the restitution and evaluation of past logical doctrines, the "Europe of Logic" project proposes to write a history that takes into account the institutional, territorial, confessional, political, educational and anthropological dimensions of the various Aristotelian logical traditions in medieval, renaissance and modern Europe.
These multiple paths take shape at the end of the Middle Ages, only to assert themselves fully from the 16th century onwards, between Reformation, Counter-Reformation and colonial knowledge projects. By pluralizing the European space to include its missions and colonies, as well as its Byzantine, Muslim and Jewish components, and by inserting the history of logic into the orbit of the methodological revival of the history of science and philosophy in recent decades, the aim is to draw on the history of logical practices, particularly educational ones, to fully denaturalize and historicize the very notion of "logic", as have those of "science" or "philosophy".