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Autour de Fondane, Ionesco, Cioran et quelques autres...
An introduction to the conference day “Singular voices of the Romanian culture. On and around Fondane, Ionesco and Cioran” that took place in La Tourette on 21 octobre 2017 and a presentation of the articles.
More...Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Fondane et Eugène Ionesco
This article is to compare three Romanian authors writing in French who are associated to avant-gardism and the Absurd: Tristan Tzara, Eugène Ionesco and Benjamin Fondane. The latter critics the philosophical concepts of Spirit (Geist, Esprit) and Idea points out that the existentialist philosophy of the absurd also depends on these concepts. Therefore only the subversive avant-gardism in the tradition of Dada can define the Absurd as an almost existential experience against all ideology.
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The article evaluates the relationship between verbose nothingness and annihilation of the word by comparing Benjamin Fondane’s apologia for muteness and the criticisms of language in Eugène Ionesco - two friends of Emil Cioran’s who converge with him in the direction of silence – in order to better understand the Cioranian diagnosis of the evil of words.
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Utopias are not subsumable under a typical category, because the variety of their contents is too large. They are pointing at most to a function; but this tends to be dissolved in those of the social critic, of the irony, of the political fiction. Utopias are therefore one of the various modes of the imagination and do not allow us to discern anything very specific about them.
More...Questions de géographie et d’abstraction
The ultimate objective of Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevitch was to realise an abstract utopia in the sense of autonomous and balanced spatialisation. The development of geometrical spatiality on a large scale gave rise instead to a situation which is not connected to the empirical conditions and contradictions that make up the urban and social environment. This situation is challenged by Richard Serra and Peter Halley, who see it as a concrete abstraction.
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The utopian achievements, in order to change the foundations of sociopolitical or even human nature, are located in a static and, at the same time, revolutionary order. The historical failure of these achievements makes utopia an ambiguous and dangerous idea. Nevertheless, its critical and encouraging function is not to be given up but has to be able to serve “eutopic” projects.
More...Penser l’utopie révolutionnaire à travers « Vittoria » de Pier Paolo Pasolini
This article offers à reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem “Vittoria”, and its aim, on the one hand, is to increase the comprehension of the author’s conception of commitment and utopia, and on the other hand, is to broaden the possibility of thought about the relationships between the ideal, revolutionary violence, resistance and political action.
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This article proposes to examine in the light of The Ethnologist and the Sage by Sami Tchack the inscription of utopia as a quest and as a critical consciousness. It highlights the utopian approach of a French ethnologist haunted by the search for the universal subject. Concerned more by the banality of cultural acts than by the historical depth of beings, the scientist will learn from this experience that utopia can hardly sublimate history.
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We are exposing here a sketch of the notion of Utopia, from its invention by Thomas More to its critique by Freud, passing through Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract. Our thesis is that there is no place for individual in idealistic speculations on political community. Starting from Metropolis, we are also trying to discover ways to integrate in its projects the individual and the group.
More...Anamorphose du désenchantement
This article compares Cioran’s criticism of utopian thought with Jonathan Swift’s parody of utopian fictions. According to Cioran, Gulliver’s Travels symbolizes the vision of a “utopia without hope”. Cioran’s interpretation of Swift’s misanthropy is comparable to a philosophical anamorphosis which uses the deformations of human reason as a mirror; a mirror capable to reflect the real proportions of the “animal rationale”.
More...Entretien avec Stéphane Barsacq
This interview with publisher and journalist Stéphane Barsacq tells us, among other things, about his views on poetry, music and philosophy. It also provides details on his encounter with French and Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, and on the important impact the latter’s work had on him.
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What we name utopia goes from the literary genre to descriptive, predictive or prescriptive discourses. If we add that research distinguishes these kinds into subgenera, a synthetic approach is very problematic, especially since utopia carries in it the germs of its own negation. It would not be the mark of a profound anxiety, which it hides in the pleasure which it derives from building itself and reinventing itself, in the face of what perhaps constitutes the very substance of thought, atopia?
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A nostalgic short story on friendship, somehow in the manner of a psychological thriller, in which the narrating self recomposes delicately and discretely places and characters of the past. The author insists on the feeling he has that really important things are not to be found in our daily conversations.
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This piece of prose has been designed as a new combination of literary reviews and literature itself. It describes a specific phenomenological experimentum where the attention shifts from examining the object to reflecting on the self.
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Cynical and paradoxical aphorisms on literary creation, on Good and Evil, philosophy, history and the self.
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It is ideal to go against the common definition of utopia. What is probable is worth just as much as what is not.
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Marc Boasson is one of the ten millions killed during the great war – one of those intellectuals – erudite and refined, who was mixed up with other men, coming from other socials backgrounds. At first, he dealt with the war as a dandy, but along weeks and months, his behaviour changed, he became different, torn between his rage, his empathy and his disdain for this suffering humanity.
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Christiane Rancé, Lettre à un jeune chrétien et à ceux qui ignorent qu’ils le sont, Paris, Éditions Tallandier, 2017.
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