MAGALI ANNÉE

Deeply grounded in a perspective of inter-disciplinary dialogue and willing to open up the limits of traditional philology, Magali Année’s track record, as well as almost all her publications – namely, her book thesis on Tyrtaeus and Kallinos – are mainly interested in the mechanisms underlying the expression and the communication of Greek knowledge, during the archaic and classical periods, as part of their oral performances in front of a given audience.

 

She is the author of several articles in Peer-Reviewed International Journals,  several chapters Peer-Reviewed Collective Volumes (Les Belles Lettres, Academia Verlag, Armand Colin/Recherches) and 4 monographs on her own name, the first in 2012 (Parménide, Fragments, Poème, précédé de Énoncer le verbe être, Paris, Vrin) ;  the second in 2017 (Tyrtée et Kallinos. La diction des anciens chants parénétiques - édition, traduction et interprétation, Paris, Classiques Garnier-Kainon) ; the two others in 2018 :

• Alcméon de Crotone. « Traité scientifique » en prose ou λόγος poético-médical ? (Nouvelle édition traduite des fragments, accompagnée du texte et de la traduction des témoignages de l’édition Diels-Kranz), Paris, Vrin ;

• La musique linguistique de la réminiscence : le Ménon de Platon entre réinvention cratyléenne de la langue commune et réappropriation de l’ancienne langue parénétique (with an English preface by Egbert Bakker, Yale University), Grenoble, Jérôme Millon-Horos.

 

These publications, as well as his research activity, describe a major scientific line that links their research interests to each other:

• Philosophy (« presocratic ») and poetry (elegy) of archaic Greece;

• The anamnetic mechanism of ancient exhortatory elegies: Tyrtaeus and Kallinos;

• The central importance of Plato's Cratylus to understand the typical state of language of the archaic and classical era;

• The legacy of the exhortatory diction of Tyrteus in Plato (Laws, Meno, etc.);

• The linguistic “underpinnings” (phonic and pragmatic) of knowledge-discourses by the so-called “Presocratics”: Parmenides’ Poem, Heraclitus’ fragments;

• The inter-communication process of meaning in Greek dictions of the archaic period and its heritage in the classical era;

• Greek Linguistics and Historical Grammar;

• Contemporaneous Linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste) ;

• Limits of language (Wittgenstein);

• Hermeneutical Philology.

 

At the crossroads of philosophy, historical and pragmatic linguistics, philology and literary studies, the keystone of these different themes is indeed a simple and fundamental idea: all the Greek texts of the archaic and classical periods are the result of a work on the language which is the very condition of their comprehension. As such, this “result” corresponding to the text is therefore philologically “interesting” only to the extent that it can give us the key to the “procedures that have made it possible”, so as it can allow us to grasp the learned craftsman (σοφός) – whether poet, sage polymathès, or genuine philosopher – on the working of his thought.

 

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