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Le laboureur et ses enfants (La Fontaine, Desaint et Saillant, 1755) - Oudry
There are two Jouissance articles in the Encyclopédie, the first is grammar and morals, the second jurisprudence. The second is signed with the letter A, which...
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Articles
I. The blink test
Fragonard - The love letter
In the first volume of the Encyclopédie, the following paragraph can be read at the article AMOUR DES SEXES:
" There is only one kind of love : but there are a thousand...
Université d'Aix-Marseille, year 2020, Stéphane Lojkine and Francesca Manzari
Woman with black hat edged in red - Cranach
" What is literature for ? ", asks Deleuze in his Presentation of Sacher-Masoch. Like the clinician,...
The challenge of theory
Loving to read, to be transported into an author's world, to be fascinated by a character or characters, is one thing counting tropes, navigating between heterodiegetic, paratext and hypotext, is quite another....
" - You can see that the fear is all in your head, Anastasia. (He's silent for a moment.) Would you do it again ?I think for a moment despite my fatigue-fogged brain... Again ?- Yes.My voice is so soft " (CNG XVIII 427, FSG 3251...
Lacan was one of the first French readers of Heidegger. He may have discovered him thanks to the course given by Jean Wahl1 at the Sorbonne from January to June 1946 : Jean Wahl was condensing his notes on Heidegger's 1928 Freiburg seminar2...
Pedagogical presentation of the course
This Teaching Unit consists of two weekly classes, one taught by S. Lojkine, the other by F. Manzari. It is mutualized as a 3rd year Bachelor 3 and 1st year Master's course.
The aim of this course is to...
I. The difference in uses
An anthropology of difference
Burning of women in India (Madelslo, Voyages de Perse aux Indes)
In the first edition of the Essai sur les mœurs, the Cramer edition of 1756, we can read in chapter 120, " Du...
Cartouche for the façade of the Jesuit church in Antwerp - Rubens
We saw in previous lessons how the device of the Voltairean tale was organized in three planes, which could be summarized as the 3 F : the façade, the fadaise and the...
Preparation for Voltaire's portrait - Maurice-Quentin de La TourThe Dictionnaire philosophique from the Kehl edition of Voltaire's complete works1 constitutes something of a textual monster : the five sections of his Esprit article have...
La Trahison des images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) - René Magritte, 1929 - Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This is not a tale1...
Voltaire published Zadig in 1746 in its first version, Candide in 1759, L'Ingénu in 1767....
Candide kills the Jew in love with Cunegonde (Voltaire, Kehl t44, 1785)PresentationIt was through theater that Voltaire conquered fame. The Essai sur les mœurs was his life's work. And it was his fight for tolerance, against fanaticism, that...
One might think it agreed that in classical aesthetics representation always represents something. There would be a detail of representation, which would identify each element with a sign, whose articulation, the whole of which would constitute the...
This is not the scholastic Voltaire of the Contes, nor even the media Voltaire of business, but the heart of the work, those thousands of pages written, expanded, retold over forty years and devoted to world history. Looking at the content of his...
As others will one day pick the violet
On a star I
I descended alive into the horror of man
(Aragon,Le Fou d'Elsa)
I. The relationship with reality
Contradictions of the genre, between essay and treatise
There is a...
Voltaire's Essai sur les mœurs can be read as an immense compilation of the catastrophes that have befallen mankind : invasions, crusades, wars of religion, all the episodes of universal history seem to boil down to a common mechanism, to which...
E tenebris autem quae sunt in luce tuemur.
(De rerum natura, IV, 337)
" It's not enough to hear me speak, I told her, you must also see me. - I believe," she replied, "that neither is necessary."(I, 15, 123.)
This banter between...
Aside from the three Ferrarese editions that mark the constitution of the text of Roland furieux (1516, 1521, 1532) other editions appeared in the intervening years, in Milan (1524) and, above all, Venice (1526, 1527, 1531). The abundance of these...
To designate what we mean today by mawkish and mawkishness, we used to speak in classical language of mignard and mignardise. It's the word Diderot used to castigate Boucher and the rococo style:
" What colors ! what variety !...
Rubens, Silenus, Aegle and other figures, 1612-1615, private collection of Elizabeth II of EnglandThe pictorial representation of bacchanalian scenes in the Classical period knows two opposing models1. The first is Italian. Inherited from the...
Gelijn Cornelis tortured in Breda, 1572. Luyken, Théâtre des Martyrs, Leiden, Pierre Van der Aa, 1685
From the time of its splendor, the educational institution of the humanities considered and presented Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique...