Search results for "Lumières"
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La langue affrontée : voix intimes des domestiques dans The Cattle Killing de John Edgar Wideman
2017
The Cattle Killing traces the path a young Black itinerant preacher – a former slave reduced to vagrancy in plague-ridden 1793 Philadelphia. During his travels, he encounters Liam and Mrs. Stubbs, a Black man and a white woman, both former servants who have come from England where Liam was indentured to painter George Stubbs while his wife was Stubbs’ maid. They came to America in hope of a better life that would save them from ambiant racism. The preacher also meets Kathryn, a black woman serving the wife of a famous Abolitionnist, a Founding Father and enlightened humanist. Kathryn works as an amanuensis for her blind mistress and writes a diary the latter dictates. Yet the servant surrep…
Le philosophe des Lumières dans les histoires littéraires
2019
International audience; No abstract.
L’œuvre de L.-A. Caraccioli ou les anamorphoses de la littérature apologétique face aux Lumières
2004
International audience; no abstract
L’imaginaire du jeune lecteur à propos de quelques utopies du siècle des Lumières
2008
International audience; no abstract
Poétique de l’utilité. Fictions évaluatrices et expérimentations sexuelles chez Diderot
2016
International audience; L’objet de cet article est de montrer que l'appréhension à partir de la poétique des lois concernant la vie elle-même et sa production est à prendre au sérieux. Dans la perspective ouverte par Bordeu, les hybrides vivants imaginés ne sont pas tant des conjectures et encore moins un programme d’action, que les résultats d’un exercice réglé de la pensée, étalonné selon une règle poétique, dont l’enjeu est politique : il s’agit d’évaluer des lois positives. Cette hypothèse de lecture permet de relire d’autres textes de Diderot, d’identifier peut-être certaines sources de cette pratique philosophique et, d’un point de vue général, d’appuyer l’interprétation du discours p…
Peut-on être philosophe et douter des Lumières ?
2020
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La peine de mort dans l'Encyclopédie et ses Suppléments
2012
This is a study of Montesquieu's and Beccaria's views on the right to apply death punishment as stated in the great Encyclopedia and in the Supplements. Without providing any unique answer to the question whether society may claim the right of life and death, the encyclopaedists reconsidered and diffused the reformism of the major authors of the eighteenth-century legal culture, thus promoting a societal justice before the Revolution.
Le droit de punir entre philosophie politique et histoire de la justice
2012
Illuminismo e giustizia penale. Il caso della ghigliottina
2011
International audience; A mechanical daughter of the enlightenment, the guillotine remains a frightening symbol of its dialectic. Being one of the most troubling inventions of utilitarian rationalism in modern europe, it meets the expectations of equality, secularism, and humanity of the legal culture of Philosophes. Focusing on the texts and contexts of the institution of this lethal machine in the administration of justice, this article examines the anthropological sense and the political dimension of the recourse to the machine. Is the mechanization of capital punishment a step forward in the humanization of social relations or the entry in the era of technical inhumanity? In this ambigu…