La philosophie de la rencontre, cette synthèse de l’évènement et de l’éternité. (…) Le moi s’éveille par la grâce du toi. L’efficacité spirituelle de deux consciences simultanées, réunies dans la conscience de leur rencontre, échappe soudain à la causalité visqueuse et continue des choses. La rencontre nous crée : nous n’étions rien — ou rien que des choses — avant d’être réunis.
The philosophy of the encounter, this synthesis of the event and the eternity. (…)The self awakens by the grace of the other. The spiritual efficiency of two simultaneous consciousnesses, united in the consciousness of their encounter, suddenly escapes the viscous and continuous causality of things. The encounter creates us: we were nothing – or nothing but things – before being reunited.
Gaston Bachelard, Preface to ” Je et Tu”, Martin Buber, pp8-9, Aubier 1992
Our forth Focus Zaman & Makan, Time & Place, explores periods and places when and where Orient and Occident met and coexisted, enriching one another, been themselves while participating in the same oneness.
Zaman & Makan Focus has two directive lines:
Andalussiyat, is a large programme dedicated to the study of the Andalusian heritage in all its manifestations; in Art, Literature, Science and Philosophy…
Travelling Arts Programme highlights and studies forms of art that went from Orient to Occident and from Occident to Orient becoming a part of the other’s aesthetics and the other’s forms of representation and expression; Traveling poetry / Traveling music / Traveling imagery…
Illustration: Map of Venice, Kitab-i Bahriye, Ḥājji Muhyieddin Piri Ibn Ḥājjī Meḥmed (Piri Reis), 1525, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, U.S.