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The Reason of Imagination. The Blazing Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Siri Hustvedt
2020
One of the peculiarities of 17th and 18th centuries literature is the link between knowledge and imagination, a relationship in which narration sometimes accompanies science, sometimes goes beyond it. The idea of imagination as a true means of knowledge is the subject of Margaret Cavendish’s best known work, The Blazing World (1666), where her alter ego is free to built a whole social and philosophical system based on corporality and subjectivity. From the same conception of imagination starts Siri Hustvedt when in 2014 rewrites The Blazing World: the story of an artist who still in the twentieth century tries to face the overwhelming misogyny with the performance of the body and the theory…
Søren Kierkegaard et les masques de l’autobiographie
2010
Si Søren Kierkegaard, contrairement à Jean – Paul Sartre, n’a pas expressément sacrifié à l’autobiographie, il est cependant indéniable que l’on découvre, à travers son œuvre, des autobiographies déguisées qui prennent diverses formes. Ce phénomène n’est sans doute pas étranger au fait que Kierkegaard accorde non seulement une importance capitale à la notion d’existence mais qu’il considère aussi que sa propre existence est à l’origine de sa réflexion philosophique, voire que seule l’existenc...