Colloquium for Intellectual History: "The Institution of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism"

Read more on the Center for European Studies Website.This event will be a panel discussion with one of France’s most innovative philosophers Vincent Descombes about his most recent book The Institutions of Meaning (Harvard 2014). Descombes is also author of The Mind's Provisions (Princeton, 2001), Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge, 1980), and Proust: Philosophy of the Novel (Stanford, 1992).Vincent Descombes L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Webb Keane Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Charles Larmore Department of Philosophy, Brown University Richard Moran Department of Philosophy, Harvard University Frederick Neuhouser Department of Philosophy, Barnard College/ColumbiaSponsors: Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History; Harvard Philosophy