Philippe Artières

Philippe Artières
Period: 2011-2012
Profession: Writer Title of project at Villa Médicis The assassination by a soldier of a Jesuit philosopher, Paul Geny, in a street in Rome in October 1925, the Holy Year. The proposal is to work with the various layers of archives relating to this event (family, judicial, religious, medical). Paul Gény, S. J. (1871-1925) Born on November 12, 1871 near Raon-l’Etape (Lorraine), he studied at the private collège la Malgrange in Nancy, then at the Grand Séminaire in the same town. From 1894 onwards, P. Gény was trained in various houses of the Society of Jesus to which he belonged (Champagne province), and at the same time studied mathematics and philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris and the Sorbonne. Ordained a priest in 1904, his first post was in Holland in 1906 at the Gemert Scholasticate, before being appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Gregorian University in 1910. In 1913, he published his first major work, Questions d’enseignement de la philosophie scolastique. During the Great War, he served as a chaplain at the front in 1915, before being recalled by Rome to continue his teaching. There, he worked actively within the university, helping to found the journal Gregorianum, where he wrote regular columns, re-edited P. Remer’s teaching, taught logic and metaphysics, directed the Institut Supérieur de Culture Religieuse from 1924 onwards, and worked actively on the preparation of a history of philosophy. Member of the Academia San Thomae, author of numerous articles in the journals Etudes, Revue de Philosophie, Scuola Cattolica, etc., he was one of the main architects of the success of the Thomist Week in Rome (1923) and above all of the Thomist Congress (1925). The Pope appointed him consultor to the Sacred Congregation for Studies and Seminaries. He was also involved in youth work and took on a direct apostolate (conversations, retreats, leadership). He is the brother of jurist François Gény (1861-1959). www.portail-michel-foucault.org Philippe Artières and his project for
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