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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 16, 2015** 

 01:00PM - 04:00PM EDT 

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 **Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room**  



 

 



 

Read more on the [Center for European Studies Website](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/#/events/2718).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](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/www.amazon.com/...Vincent-Descombes/) L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris[ Webb Keane](http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/webbkeane) Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor[ Charles Larmore](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/vivo.brown.edu/display/clarmore) Department of Philosophy, Brown University[ Richard Moran](http://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/people/richard-moran) Department of Philosophy, Harvard University[ Frederick Neuhouser](http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/frederick-neuhouser)  Department of Philosophy, Barnard College/ColumbiaSponsors: [Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/studygroups/intellectual_history/); [Harvard Philosophy ](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/)

 

 



 

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