Philosophie et langage. A propos de Jean Bollack et du Centre de Recherche philologique de Lille

Classical scholarship has determined our image of classical texts that it edited and explained. What can it afford to our understanding of language? Purpose of this paper is 1) to situate philology among the sciences of language 2) to present the critical hermeneutic of Jean Bollack 3) through few examples from different authors of the Centre de recherche philologique (on Heraclitus and Hesiod above all) and 4) to sketch some problems concerning the epistemology of linguistics and the relations between philology and philosophy.