Search results for "Naturalism"
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Portrait de Zola en chroniqueur
2013
International audience; Il peut paraître difficile de concilier la figure du romancier naturaliste, soucieux de vérité, épris de science, désireux de réformer le champ littéraire par une œuvre dont les fondements auront par ailleurs été minutieusement théorisés, avec celle de l’improvisateur quotidien, soumis d’une part à l’actualité et de l’autre au public, contraint à une fantaisie permanente à l’aune de laquelle sera jugé son talent. Pourtant Zola a écrit de nombreuses chroniques, avant même de produire ses premiers romans naturalistes, puis au cours des premières années de la rédaction des Rougon-Macquart. Il a dû, pour ce faire, s’accommoder de deux traits constitutifs de la chronique …
De Cratyle à la TME : une longue tradition dans le débat sur la motivation ou l’arbitraire des mots
2016
In the specialized literature, the concepts of motivation and arbitrariness refer to very different realities. Using some essential readings, we endeavour to clarify these points in the "motivated vs arbitrary nature of lexical forms" debate inaugurated in Plato's Cratylus. Amongst other things, these reveal that the lexical motivation phenomenon is more complex than the supporters of the Saussurian doxa of arbitrariness would have us believe. Even if a considerable amount of time separates the first forms of language from the most ancient linguistic forms available to us and any attempt to reconstruct these original forms is based upon an illusion, it is, nevertheless, possible to decipher…
Zoosémiotique 2.0
2019
To semiotise the animal - to narrate it, to say it, to represent it, to think it, to make it an object of science - means to manage the politics of an unsecured threshold: that which separates it, more or less obstinately, from man. To define the animal is to define man, of course. However, it is more interesting to note that, often surreptitiously, giving the animal a place among the "kingdoms" of nature means, in parallel, adding it between the articulation of the social, between cultural institutions (kinship, affection and kinship, affection and affiliations, strategies and conflicts...). In In other words, to make the animal the object of knowledge is to propose a certain political vis…
Capuana lettore di Taine. Ambivalenze di una fonte del verismo
2011
Le radici del naturalismo. W.V. Quine tra eredità empirista e pragmatismo
2007
¿Naturalismo «blando»? En torno al estatuto epistemológico de la teoría moral de Jürgen Habermas
2018
The aim of this paper is to discuss whether the concept “soft naturalism” used by Habermas to define his explanation of freedom and moral consciousness is compatible with his earlier thought. To do so, it will be showed a chronological view of Habermas’s arguments against scientism, secondly Habermas’s traditional explanation of moral consciousness will be outlined, and finally it will be argued that this explanation is incompatible with the position of “soft naturalism”. El presente artículo persigue discutir si la expresión “naturalismo blando”, utilizada por Habermas para defi nir su explicación de la libertad y la conciencia moral, es o no consistente con su pensamiento anterior. Para e…
Practical applications of naturalistic inquiry in intercultural education
2021
In recent years, the field of intercultural communication has seen a remarkable shift characterized by a growth in publications that distance themselves from the traditional, essentialist understanding of culture. In research, this shift is reflected in approaches that appreciate culture-in-action instead of taking culture for granted as a stable entity that pre-exists social interaction and predicts as well as explains human behavior. However, despite attempts to introduce differentiated views on culture and interculturality in education, concrete options for critical intercultural training are scarce and often remain abstract, which makes their application challenging. This article argues…
Symptomatic bodies: reading and writing the odor of sanctity in French culture (1868-1901)
2021
Using examples from novels by the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Zola and Lemonnier, this paper explores the literary representation of the odor of sanctity in regard to the main epistemological discourses of the second half of the 19th century. In this deeply anticlerical intellectual context, the Christian myth of the odor of sanctity is analyzed by medical professionals and scientists as a pathological phenomenon. Although taking into account the divergent aesthetics of the selected authors, the study focuses mostly on the ambiguity literary texts maintain between the unspeakable experience of religious ecstasy and a symptomatic vision of the body.