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Albert Eckhout, Indian Tarairiu cannibal from Brazil, 272x165 cm, 1641, Copenhagen, National Museum, ethnographic collection
It may seem strange to speak of a negative dialectic in relation to a work as actively combative as the Dictionnaire...
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Articles
Chardin, Les Attributs des arts et les récompenses qui leur sont accordées, oil on canvas, 102x140.5 cm, 1766, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
The problem of defining words and its encyclopedic model
Words and things
In the article...
Carmontelle, Voltaire and Mme du Châtelet, 1747-1750, former Lady Mendl collection
Voltairean dialogue is not a genre of discourse
Circulation of the dialogic form, upstream and downstream of the Dictionnaire
Wondering about dialogue in...
Voltaire (in pink) dining at Sans-Souci with Frédéric II (center)
Nothing defines Voltaire's style better than irony. But what exactly is irony, and is it only a matter of style ? To define what characterizes both the writing and the...
Instability of the notion
Tolerance : an origin and an end
" What is tolerance ? It's the prerogative of humanity. We're all full of weaknesses and mistakes let's forgive each other our foolishness, it's the first law of...
In a dossier in the Monde devoted to Voltaire and Rousseau, Roland Barthes writes: " Voltaire starts from the futile, maintains it by the simple thrust of the anecdote, but along the way takes in slingshot all the seriousness of the world...
The Sadian discourse seems to have lost its relevance today. The libertine's philosophy would be heard. Do we read Sade to learn that Heaven is empty, that the law of men, iniquitous or hypocritical, is only a decoy covering the natural law of the...
A Voltairean fascinationAt the end of the Salomon article in the Dictionnaire philosophique, we can read :" We abhor the Jews, and we want everything written by them and collected by us to bear the stamp of Divinity. There has never been a...
The Dictionnaire philosophique is not a literary work like any other. Its very literarity poses a problem, not only because it presents itself as a dictionary, and not as a followed text, but also and above all because it is part of an action, a...
Sokal : from hoax to malaiseIn the spring of 1996, the deconstructionist journal Social text published an article by New York University physicist Alan Sokal entitled " Transgressing boundaries : towards a transformative hermeneutics...
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Diderot wasn't a writer who was also an art critic...
The emergence of technology (1761-1763)
Coussins
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I. Structuralism and deconstructionYou can find powdered sachets packaged in cardboard packets in the pastry preparation section of supermarkets, enabling you to prepare milk and egg flan in just a few minutes. The principle is simple: heat the milk...
Michel Foucault published Surveiller et punir in 1975, almost fifteen years after his first major book, the Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (1961). Although the link is not explicitly made, these two investigations respond to each other, and...
The torn portraitIn Hong Kong, an international press and media magnate has established his quarters in a gigantic tower on which is displayed, as a symbol of his power over the world, a portrait of himself printed on an immense canvas. James Bond...
Polemics are everywhere in our democracies. We are fed with scandals, controversies, from the most unbearable to the most futile or the ridiculous ones, occupying the whole landscape of the medias, far from the deep and necessarily slow meditation...
How should Molière be taught? Traditionally, we choose one play, for which we explain the text. But Molière's world is not one play; and this theater, perhaps more than any other, cannot be reduced to a text, without its representation. The...
A purported arbitrariness of narrative
One of the distinctive features of a certain Enlightenment novel is the interplay the narrator introduces between the conduct of the narrative and the narrative itself. He takes a malicious pleasure in...
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Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Vue du Salon de 1767
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After the rout of the encyclopedic adventure and his failure at the theater, Diderot, at the suggestion of his friend Grimm, threw himself into writing reviews of the Salons...
https://utpictura18.univ-amu.fr/notice/4504-mariage-pamela-joseph-highmoreWriting Pamela in 1740, Richardson made his fortune with the story of a marriage. Pamela's marriage to her seducer and master, Mr. B., is the novel's central episode,...