La Renaissance des origines

In Western history, the first modernity is not only the age of "Humanism", the "geniuses" of art, the "Great Discoveries" and the "Scientific Revolution", it also marks the advent of an unprecedented reflection on origins, where individuals begin to imagine and reinvent beginnings to better think about a present that is constantly reconfiguring itself. This Renaissance of origins is nourished by various cosmogonic and anthropogonic myths and beliefs, but also by symbolic genealogies of power which, multiplying throughout Europe, testify to the political investment of the original time. For the artists - whose productions were the main agents of this reflection - the figuration of origins appears inseparable from the myths of the birth of art and the staging of artistic work. Seeing or reviewing the Renaissance in the light of its origins - of the world, of humanity, of the polis and of art - such is the ambition of this volume which brings together the contributions of specialists in the humanities - history of the 'art, history, geography, literature or philosophy' - speakers at the symposium 'The Renaissance of origins' which was held in June 2018 at the University of Tel Aviv an