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Marchal-Ninosque, France. "La culture de Denis Diderot." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040249.
Full textThis thesis would like to be an inquiry upon the sources -as well orals than written - that have built Diderot's culture and given him the will to become an humanist of enlightenment. His studies with Jesuits, then, at the Sorbonne, his works for the Encyclopedie, his contacts in salons, his readings for Grimm's correspondence literary, his travel in Holland, his intense interest for Europe and every civilization have formed him as well as his attachment to the antiquity. His work is as the end of ancients and moderns ‘quarrel, as well as it is a reconciliation between materialism and humanism
Kim, Tai-Hyung. "La technique romanesque de Diderot." Toulouse 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994TOU20064.
Full textCrouzet, Mary-Emilie. "Suzanne Simonin, figurine de l'individuel étude sémiotique de la "Religieuse" de Denis Diderot." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37596897x.
Full textLangbour, Nadège. "Diderot écrivain critique d'art." Rouen, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007ROUEL577.
Full textThis thesis entitled, « Diderot seen as an art critic », highlights the interactions of Diderot's writings on art and his literary works. Firstly, Diderot's artistic formation is presented, with an exhaustive repertoire of readings made by this noted « Salon » art critic and emphasizes the major role of the Encyclopaedia in the shaping of his artistic opinions and judgments. The following sequence examines in depth Diderot's nine « Salons » as well as his two « essays on painting ». At the outset, Diderot's status (position) is perceived in relationship with the artistic way of thinking (reasoning) of his time. The thesis then emphasizes the originality of the Salons, both on a thematic and theoretical level as well as on the formal level. The last section is an analysis of the influence of Diderot's pictorial judgements on his novels and plays (Romanesque and dramatic works)
Queudot, Marie-Florence. "La théâtralité des dialogues chez Diderot." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040132.
Full textDiderot's dialogues (Le neveu de Rameau, Jacques le fataliste, mystification, ceci n'est pas un conte, madame de la Carliere, le supplement au voyage de Bougainville, l'entretien entre d'Alembert et Diderot, le role de d'Alembert, la suite de l'entretien, l'entretien d'un père avec ses enfants, l'entretien d'un philosophe avec la marechale de…) were not written to be produced as plays, and their present success makes us wonder about the nature of their dramatic qualities. An analysis of their structural elements (action, time, place), reveals a multi-layered dramatic effect, in a world in which the protagonists are the producer, the listener and the actor. The temporal and physical space permits a movement within these three dramatic functions, within a "no-time" very similar to these in contemporary twentieth century theatre. Gesture and its relationship with the speech, the sort lines and the tirades of diderot, are the proof of the stylization of his writing, go achieve a dynamic linking of the dialogue , in fact the style is not only dynamic but at the same time dramatic : the dramatic characters experience emotions and clash with each other verbally. Even laugther emphasizes the inner conflict of each individual ; in his different roles and multiple masquerades, he witnesses the playing out of his own existence. The dramatic qualities of diderot's texts form an essential element of the dialogues, because these qualities are part of his philosiphy. Dialogue is an element in his philosophical quest and not a mere literary artifice
Fiaschi, Pascal. "Enfer et Damnation dans l'oeuvre de Diderot." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040238.
Full textUsing as a starting-point Blake T. Hanna's research on Diderot's theological training, we proceed to examine both the recurring motifs of Diderot's anti-christianity and the religious sources of this polemic. Eschatology, our field of study, informs dogmatic reflections on original sin, Providence and grace. Referentially, we draw on Augustinianism, which pervades the works of Jansenists. Since it is based on a collation of fragments or entries in l'Encyclopédie, our analysis is doubtless atypical and somewhat narrow in scope. However, it enables us to address some of the lesser-known output of our philosopher and to revisit his most famous works from a new perspective
Déan, Philippe. "Diderot devant l'image." Paris 7, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA070154.
Full textDiderot's project of a critical knowledge of pictures has developped through a contradiction between its theoretical framework and the interpretative praxis of paintings in les salons. The iconologic thought of diderot identifies the image with an iconic sign and favours figurative realism. It establishes the interdependance of notions such imitation and signification, legibility and visibility and its conceptual basis originates in a fable of the visual origin of language which produces a specific sign pattern called "hieroglyph". However these theories associate their negative counterpart because diderot's creative writing reveals a tension between legibility and visuality, knowing and seeing. Facing the image in an imaginary and fantasmatic relation, the subject of writing is caught up in a dialectic of desire and the image's signification is constantly deferred
Kim, Eun-Sook. "La forme épistolaire et le dialogique chez Diderot : étude sur destinateur-destinataire dans Le Salon de 1765." Paris 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA030026.
Full textOur thesis laies interest on the "conversation" that is so called as done in the letter of the writer. How any "conversation" can be made in a piece of letter writter by one person? to answer this question, we choose salon de 1765, a work of letter style of diderot, as the subject of study. Though salon de 1765 is written by 'i' -addresser, from start to end, the figure of 'you' - addressee is pressed on the letter. 'i', already, at the moment, come to feel appearance, response of 'you', and hear the 'voice' of his partner. This inner 'voice' of 'you', sounding in the letter, has influence on the letter-writing of 'i'. 'you', the addressee, cannot be a passive destination where the letter is to be arrived. He comes under a participation into letter-writing by reading the letter. Like this, the meaning of salon de 1765 depends, at the same time, on two 'signify' of 'i' and 'you'. Salon de 1765 is made upon the hidden dialogue between 'i' and 'you'. In this point of view, the letter-salon de 1765 is the "conversation" between the writter-addresser and the potential readers-addressee, the "con- versation" made by writing and reading
Cammagre, Geneviève. "La notion de sujet dans la correspondance de Diderot." Toulouse 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993TOU20032.
Full textDiderot developed the notion of subject in his correspondence even as the concept of Cartesian subject was being questioned. A new discipline - psychology - was emerging, together with original modes of personal writing. That turning point in philosophical and literary history provides four main fields for investigation. First, in private letters meant for posterity Diderot claims to be morally exemplary. That emphasis on moral exemplarity underlies his quest for reconciliation with the father figure. Then, in his correspondence, Diderot comes up with original elements of answers to the philosophical question of identity, which runs throughout his works as a whole. Delimitating his singularity and achieving permanence of the self through discontinuous states of consciousness are among the solutions he puts forward, besides, as witness his letters to Sophie Volland, Diderot does not approach the problem of self-knowledge through introspective analysis. Instead, he carries out experimental investigations into desire, faithfulness, sincerity. . . Involving the recipient of his letters in the process. Finally the question of intersubjectivity will be examined as the letter-writer is led to turn himself into a fictional character after his untiring attempts to annex the other have come to a deadlock
Cabane, Franck. "L'écriture en marge dans l'œuvre de Diderot." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070051.
Full textIt is widely known that Diderot wrote extended comments in the margin of the pages of philosophical works, notably those by Helvetius and Hemsterhuis. He also appears to have done the same with his own writings, his translation of Shaftesbury's "lnquiry" being one example. Although occasional studies of these marginal notes exist, no comprehensive overview has been overtaken until now. The present work addresses the detail and the essence of Diderot's marginal note-writing. Based on a corpus encompassing the major pan of his written work, in domains ranging from the literary and the philosophical to the Encyclopaedic, it covers the period from 1745 when the "Essai sur le mérite el la vertu" was published, to 1782 which saw the publication of the "Essai sur les règnes de Claude et Néron", until 1784 when he completed the corrections he was making to his own work. Emphasis is placed on the accessibility of Diderot's work, most particularly on development and rupture. The characteristics of the marginalia in manuscripts identified as being in the author's own hand have been analysed particularly his commentaries on the works of contemporary philosophers, the co-authored writing for the “Encyclopédie" and the "supplement", and finally his own miscellaneous variations. The aim of the study is to assess the construction of Diderot's work from its beginnings. Borrowings, transformations of the works of other: authors are recognised and studied. The relentless interplay between old and new work, his own and that of others, is highlighted. Diderot wrote in the margin of both his own work and that of others. He sought to find their limits and his own. The conclusions he drew led him towards a singular form of atheism characterised by Emmanuel Levinas as the "transparent violence of the sacred"
Martin-Haag, Éliane. "Diderot philosophe : Lumières, nature, raison." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010609.
Full textDiderot theorizes the notion of philosophical style. Thinking always comes down to imagining, and finding fault with dogmatic metaphysics can be equated with criticizing discursive reason or analytic imaginary, for which a new dialectic must be substituted, inspired by sceptic, neoplatonic and aristotelian tradition. The works of his mature years build up an atomism which abolishes the distinction between nature and matter, using the postulate of continuity upheld by the Cambridge philosophers such as Cudworth : Bayle and Voltaire reaffirm that atheistic atomism has its sources in the neoplatonic notion of order. This idea crops up in eighteenth century vitalism. Maupertuis and the supporters of the Montpellier school keep the concept of plastic nature both as unconscious thought and seminal reason. Diderot rethinks this concept so as to conceive an order without finality, and to rationalize hylozoism. Finally materialism appears as undogmatic metaphysic because the caracteristic of rational hypothese is that it can be criticized or disproved. Diderot identifies historicity with rationality : materialism accounts for the progress of experimental philosophy, of the history of moral reason, and the history of art
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel. "Diderot et la métaphysique." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040220.
Full textPellerin, Pascale. "Lectures et images de Diderot de l'Encyclopédie à la fin de la Révolution." Tours, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOUR2009.
Full textThis work shows first of all in what way the public's response to the Encyclopedic around the years 1760 was revived in the years 1770-1780 by the publication of materialistic texts such as d'Holbach's systeme de la nature and abbot Raynal's Histoire philosophique des deux Indes. Diderot was accused of overthrowing both the church and the crown. During the collapse of the Ancien Régime, Diderot's name was almost absent from parliamentary debates. But in 1791, just when the french revolution sees a major political turning point with the flight of Louis The 16th to Varennes, Raynal's letter to the national assembly, a sentence of Meslier attributed to Diderot who wished to see the last of kings strangeld with the last priest, and the publication of me last tome of Naigeon's Philosophic ancienne et moderne for the Encyclopedic methodique gave to Diderot his place among the prophets of the french revolution but in an indirect and difficult way to determine. Only after the termidorian reaction, philosopher's texts began to appear such as the Eleutheromanes. The Supplement au voyage de Bougainville, The Religieuse and Jacques le Fataliste. The publication of these texts combined with the monarchists'offensive after the chock of me terror put Diderot in the foreground. The counter-revolutionary leaning on Meslier and Diderot's wish to see kings and priests disappear, accused the philosopher of having been the leader of the most extremist revolutionaries such as Chaumette, Carrier and Robespierre. Diderot, responsible of the closing of convents, of the killing of the priests, of Louis the 16th's execution and of the terror, is accused at the Babeuf's trial. (Babeuf was supporting Morelly's Code de la nature which he attributed, as so many others, to Diderot. ). What a fascinating collusion between literary deceptions, the publications of texts and the political context. But Diderot's defense was now more difficult
Lojkine, Stéphane. "Le dialogue et l'image : essai sur la poétique de Diderot dans les années 1760." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070006.
Full textThe efficiency of rhetorics has proved doubtful to define the structure of diderot's texts ; the starting point and object of this dissertation will therefore be the "images" used by diderot in the 1760's salons and dialogues. Part i deals with diderot's progression from actual images to the act of seeing, part 2 from the act of seeing to the practise of dialogue and part 3 from the use of dialogue to the structure itself. The first images to be examined - the overturned carriage and the child-colossus - result from networks of phantasms which often appear in the form of blurred snapshots (chap. 1) likewise the stageing of plato's cave (fragonard's coresus et callirhoe) associates the phantasms of the hermaphrodite and the double with images that are surimposed upon the canvas of diderot's dream (chap. 2). The act of seeing that turned out to be impossible in the fantasmatic schemes is ritualised in the pictoral images of the salons : lacan's distinction between the field of representation, the scopic field and the symbolic field helps us understand the ritual organised by the point of view of the critic, the painter and the spectator; but this ritual also includes an ideological dimension which prefigures the practise of dialogue (chap. 3). Therefore it becomes necessary to account for the coexistence of a poetics of images and a poetics of dialogue at the end of the period concerned. The characters in d'alembert's dream use elliptic dialogues : what cannot be expressed through a
Gaha, Kamel. "L'énonciation romanesque chez Diderot." Lyon 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LYO20020.
Full textDiderot's work carries the thought and discourse of enligthenment ot the epistemological and aesthetic threshold of modernity. Instead of being lived and practised as mer archetypes, description, narration and meditation become in this work the very subject matter of representation. Turning bach on the work that performs itself in it, conscience becomes the scene where the quest of the true, the beautiful and the good unwinds. Diderot's fiction calls upon the philosophical and literary tradition as discourse and problematic "posture". This dialogue at the treshold of potential new forms of discourse and understanding institutes a fiction of a new tuype, in which dialogic conscience tries to define the conditions of the possibility of a new meaning. The self-enunciation of the subject of discourse assigns to representation general, and thewriting of fiction in particular, the status of an ethical, philosophical and aesthetic inauguration. The adventure of subject begins with les bijoux indiscrets where it takes the form of general critique of the traditional forms of discourse and thought. In the "essais" (lettre sur les aveugles, lettre sur les sourds et muets, entretiens sur le fils naturel, discours de la poesie dramatique, le reve de d'alembert and the paradoxe sur le comedien), Diderot elaborates thescenography of the the creator's dialogic "i". Finally in le Neveu de Rameau, this perfect poetics of fictional enunciation, the novel, from the marginal genre it was, turns into an emblematic enunciation of the "aesthetic subject"
Stenger, Gerhardt. "Nature et liberté chez Diderot après l'Encyclopédie." Montpellier 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990MON30009.
Full textAs well as making a distinction, in the salon de 1767, between phenomenal and ideal nature, diderot, in the reve d'alembert, contrasts the "ordre subsistant" with the one of the "tout". Rejecting the mechanistic model of science, he puts forward a fluid and relational model of nature. The universe seems ordered and predetermined only because man projects onto the external realm of nature the preconceptions inherent in his rationalist system. Diderot introduced into nature the idea of a complex causality, which renders its evolution undetermined. Man does not act like a puppet, he is a "tout" who is self-determining. Man does gives also up the morale universelle based on the equation virtue=beneficence=happiness. The only virtue he recognizes is justice, based on property. Diderot pleads in favour of a society which protects property and in which the individual is free to increase his wealth according to natural equity. If a nation is not free, revolution becomes inevitable. Diderot proposes that the wise man can transgress the law to do good, but in public his faultless behaviour has to serve as a model for his fellow-citizens. Free of any attachment, the exercise of justice confers supreme happiness
Tonneau, Olivier. "Diderot : la philosophie sans fondement." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040049.
Full textDiderot, a materialist? We suggest he is first and foremost a moralist. Aware that “atheism is very close to a kind of superstition as puerile as the other” (to Mme de Maux, October 1769), he opposes religious fanatism but also the emergent scientism which turns sciences such history, sociology, biology and economy, into new dogmas. Book one: Diderot’s materialism is seen as the foundation of his thought because we expect him to legitimize his critique of the established order and to prevent the threat of immorality in a world without God. But many texts, especially the dialogues, show that criticism need not be founded on facts, and that the threat of immorality – largely illusory – could not be answered by a demonstration. The foundations of morals must be sought in practices and the will; their means is an educated reason; their finality is not given but constructed. Book two: “Strictly speaking, there is only one sort of causes: physical causes”. It follow that “freedom is a word empty of meaning” (to Landois, 29 June 1756). These axioms seem to destroy notions of responsibility and shared values: moral discourse refers to nothing real. But these consequences rest upon an impoverished conception of language, which Diderot always combated. The fondationaliste materialist refers language to the physical, but language ads to the physical and constitutes a form of life in which we see ourselves as free and responsible. This form of life must be protected; this demands that we renounce our craving for a factual foundation of values
Gauthier, Gérald. "La phrase sans verbe chez Diderot : de l'autographe à l'imprimé." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040052.
Full textDurand, Béatrice. "Diderot et la musique." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040175.
Full textMusic is present in all the works of diderot. His writings about music are a testimony about the musical life of the 18th century. They are a document about the hows and wheres of musical life, and about musical pedagogy. These writings are also an echo of all the theoretical and esthetical discussions, which have been agitating the musical life of the century. At first, diderot was diderot an adept of rameau's theory, and also of a physico-mathematical approach to the musical phenomen. He contributed to the popularization of rameau's theory, but later he diverges from it. His most important contribution was freeing the musical esthetics from the schemas inheritated from the classical times and based on the a linguistic conception of music. Music is a language, it "speaks", it signifies. Getting rid of thes theoretical assumptions, diderot proposes an esthetics which describes music from the point of view of its sensitive perception, without imparting the model of linguistic description
Daengklom, Sayan. "Érotique et réception de la peinture dans les salons de Diderot." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0118.
Full textKingsbury, Fanny. "La critique de l'idéalisme dans les romans et les contes de Diderot /." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26739.
Full textBoilleau, Anne-Marie. "Liaison et liaisons dans les lettres de Diderot à Sophie Volland (1759-1774)." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040260.
Full textThis study of the correspondence between Diderot and Sophie Holland considers both the historical and literary perspectives of the eighteenth century and the clarification given by modern text analysis. The first part of the study deals with an appreciation of the art of conversation. It is based upon the stylistic and epistolary usages of the times as well as elements of cohesion. The conclusions force a re-appraisal of the long standing reputation for "disjointedness" attributed to the style of Diderot, and underline the mechanism by which these historical beings are metamorphosed into characters. The second part concerns the crystallization of Sophie into a metaphor of the "new woman", solidly epitomizing the myth of virtuous love. The neo-platonic dimension within this literary passion opens up the questions about the "indiscernable materialism" of Diderot. The third and final part establishes the taxonomy of the letters. These range from love letters to narrations. The "letters to Sophie Volland" reveal therefore a certain polymorphism which might be characterized as a "self re-producing style”
Hervieu, Éric. "Encyclopédisme et poétique." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA081459.
Full textThe principal object of this thesis is the diderot's philosophy. From an examen of the antagonism fatalism/liberty, we take in a permanent preoccupation in our author, the action. The analysis of this notion we show reveal ourself than poetic is both an element without contents of the truth and an intensity "sym-encyclopaedic", that is to say, the poetic is always with the encyclopaedism. Consequently, there are not two philosophy, but two aspect of the philosophy, where the rational and the experimental of the thought on the interpretation of the nature, are identical with the encyclopaedism and poetic. The first is mystification, the second, objectivation. The conjugation of this two aspect is the exteriorisation, that is to say, the concept, which is neither in the text, nor apart from the text, but the text himself. The sense of this concept is a reality that come in the truth
Carbonelli, Junior Ricardo Rui Lento. "A questão do ator na estetica de Diderot." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281450.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: A dissertação trata da análise da obra "Paradoxo sobre o comediante" no contexto da estética de Diderot. Sua tese fundamental diz que um grande ator é insensível e não deve sentir as emoções que representa. O enunciado é analisado tomando-se o significado dos seus termos no sistema do Filósofo. As idéias de sensibilidade, representação, gênio, imaginação e o conceito de Belo são discutidos a partir de seus textos e de comentários clássicos sobre o tema. Na primeira parte, tratamos da articulação dos conceitos fundamentais da estética de Diderot e como isso se dá de forma problemática, suscitando alguns paradoxos. Também tratamos do lugar que o espetáculo ocupa nessa estética, do objetivo de efeito teatral orientando o desenvolvimento da arte como forma de comunicação e das particularidades próprias de sua tradução visual. Na segunda parte procuramos discutir os conceitos fundamentais para o "Paradoxo" e pensar a estética e a filosofia de Diderot a partir de seus postulados. Na última parte fazemos uma apresentação da obra que orienta nossa pesquisa, tratando das questões historiográficas e abordando seus temas a partir do próprio texto.
Abstract: The dissertação deals with the analysis of the book "Actor's Paradox" in the context of Diderot's aesthetic. Its basic thesis says that a great actor is insensitive and should not feel the emotions that represent. The statement is analyzed by taking the meaning of the terms in the system of the Philosopher. The ideas of sensitivity, representation, genius, imagination and the concept of Beautiful are discussed from his texts and classic commentaries on the subject. In the first part, we deal with the articulation of the basic concepts of the aesthetic of Diderot and how it occurs in a problematic form, exciting some paradoxes. Also we deal with the place that the spectacle occupies in that aesthetic and the objective of theatrical effect guiding the development of the art as communication form and of the proper particularitities of its visual translation. In the second part we look for to discuss the basic concepts for the "Paradox" and to think the aesthetic and the philosophy of Diderot from its postulates. In the last part we make a presentation of the book that guides our research, treating to the historiographical questions and approaching its themes from the text itself.
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Bohn, Marie-Anne. "Le travail du négatif chez Denis Diderot. Une étude de fictions choisies." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL066.
Full textThe work of the negative, a concept that initiated in philosophy, allowed the researcher to tackle the core of this study, as this action appears to shake profoundly the corpus of fictional texts chosen. If the work of the negative is a movement, which is shaped within a context of polarisation where the other is always implied, if there is an ambiguous turmoil and inconstancy, how does it actualize in Diderot’s work? To this extent, the study of the context of writing is essential as censorship and networks impact the arts. Additionally, the density of the texts requires unpacking the rhetorical effect of the convoluted prose. From genres to the connection to reality, from fictionalization of thoughts to narrative mode, tracks are covered repeatedly, thicken the plot, and eventually grant the central places to speech. In light of this information, the reader’s task is intricate. Is this “negative” stir connected to Diderot’s unfolding his thoughts through multiplicity? Lastly, we will probe further the feeling of movement which emanates from the texts at hand. It is as if it converged towards preserving the strength and power of thinking, as if in the meantime at a cross section between philosophy and literature, the style of Diderot was shaping up. A dialogic form structures the writing. Irony and its features mold sentences and situations in order to place the reader in an active discomfort, it reverberates the questioning inherent to the writing, and overflows. The work of the negative, which can be found more or less profusely in Diderot’s work, puts the notion of literarity into perspective
Kawamura, Fumie. "Diderot et la chimie : répercussions de la notion de fermentation dans la pensée et dans l'écriture de Diderot." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10127.
Full textDucol, Jacques. "Diderot critique d'Helvetius ou le matérialisme en chantier." Tours, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986TOUR2003.
Full textWithin the philosophy of enlightenment, materialism, which is linked to the development of science, appears as the most coherent philosophical position as well as the most qualified to define and solve new problems. Though the bases of their materialism are identical, diderot and helvetius are often opposed to each other about either a theoretic question such as the relation thought sensation, or a political one such as luxury. However that dialogue remains one of those, privileged moments standing out as landmarks to the onward elaboration of a true science of man. Indeed, the dispute between diderot and helvetius, focussing on the relation organization education, appears to be a nodal point where the questions of the century take form because it contributes in a decisive way to express that major problem : how can man be changed? that is the reason why a refutation of helvetius is an essential text; diderot does not repudiate his principales but, being stimulated by helvetius's reflection, he wonders about, the most adequate means to turn the most daring ideas of his time into a political programme. Nevertheless, those divergences do not call in question again the thorough unity of 18th century materialism, the internal coherence of which - achieved in the political struggle and owing to the new science and techniques - contributes to make it theoretically et politically revolutionary. That is why, from the 19th century up to nowadays, that materialism has been misrepresented, witheld from the public and distorted, but never really understood as a height in the history of thought, the real contents of which can be apprehended only by marxism as a philosophy of praxis
ALCOLUMBRE, Alberto Oliveira. "Platão e Diderot: a crítica ao artista." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/7245.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é, como o próprio título indica, apresentar a crítica ao artista empreendida por Platão e Diderot. A despeito de Platão desferir sua crítica à poesia em A República dentro de um contexto ético-político; e Diderot, por sua vez, em O Paradoxo sobre o Comediante, dentro de um registro estético, observa-se um posicionamento análogo dos dois filósofos no tocante ao tema. Dentre muitos pontos análogos observados entre eles, concentramos nosso olhar em dois deles que nos pareceu fundamentais às referidas críticas: as noções de páthose de ideal. Tanto em Platão quanto em Diderot observa-se que a figura do artista é sempre pensada em relação com essas noções. Embora, à primeira vista, sejamos tentados a concluir que, nessa relação, o ideal apresenta-se como um antípoda das paixões, percebe-se mais atentamente, que estas oscilam: ora figuram como um empecilho, ora, como uma referência positiva dentro das respectivas críticas; a chave para apaziguar esse conflito será a temperança (sophrosýne). Diante disso, nos propomos, com esse trabalho, investigar e explicitar essa relação cambiante que se encontra de forma análoga nos referidos filósofos.
The aim of this work is, as the text indicates, to present the critique of the artist undertaken by Plato and Diderot. Despite Plato launch his criticism of poetry in The Republic within an ethical-political context; and Diderot, in his turn, in The Paradox of the Comedian, within an aesthetic register, there is an analogous position of the two philosophers regarding the subject. Among many similar points observed between them, we focus our vision into two of them that seemed to us fundamental to such criticism: the notions of pathos and ideal. In both Plato and Diderot one observes that the figure of the artist is always thought of in relation with these notions. Although at first glance, we could be tempted to conclude that, in this relationship, the ideal is presented as an antipode of the passions, we can see more closely that these oscillate: sometimes they show up as a hindrance, sometimes, as a positive reference within the respective critiques; the key to appease this conflict will be temperance (sophrosýne). In view of this, we propose, with this work, to investigate and explain this unstable relationship that one finds in an analogously form in those philosophers.
Kovács, Eszter. "Le voyage dans la pensée de Diderot : sa fonction et sa critique dans la fiction, dans le récit de voyage et dans le discours philosophique et politique." Lyon, Ecole normale supérieure, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007ENSF0044.
Full textDiderot is the most sedentary among the French Philosophes: he refuses travelling except his only trip to Holland and to the Russian capital of Catherine II in 1773-1774. His views about travels and travel literature are the opposite of the enthousiasm of the eighteenth century. He does not trust travel accounts about faraway societies and recently discovered areas and claims that travelling is rarely useful in a young man’s education. Travel accounts should be severely supervised and compared to each other to fight prejudice, errors and deliberate lies. Diderot does not believe in the educational use of travelling without special conditions and an appropriate preparation. Despite this critical position and refusal, an attentive reading of his writings from early fiction to mature political thought shows a great interest in the role of travel in modern history and philosophy. Diderot accepts that travel accounts are indispensible sources of political, social, religious and anthropological information
Sperotto, Valentina. "Le scepticisme comme méthode dans l’œuvre de Denis Diderot." Thesis, Amiens, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AMIE0040/document.
Full textThe aim of this research is to point out the characteristics of the reception of Skepticism in Diderot’s work, through an analysis of the Skeptic arguments and rhetorical devices that can be identified in Diderot’s writings. Our investigation reveals the presence of recurring Skeptic elements both in the early works and in the maturity, including the contributions to the Encyclopédie. Another essential topic is the use of Skepticism as a method that does not consist only in the preliminary application of skeptic’s arguments to the subject discussed by the philosopher. We also show that Diderot’s Skeptic method entails not only the use of some typical arguments, but also the adoption of peculiar stylistic choices. We claim that this Skeptic streak explains some singularities of Diderot’s philosophy and of his materialism. A deeper understanding of the central role played by the Skeptic themes in Diderot’s thinking makes a significant contribution to the studies on Skepticism in the Enlightenment, which emerges like a plurality of positions and forms of philosophical heritages. For these reasons we do not only present a comparison between Diderot and his skeptic sources, but also with others Enlightenment philosophers like Montesquieu, Voltaire, D’Alembert and David Hume
Belleguic, Thierry. "Météores : Diderot ou l'écriture de la passion." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081305.
Full textPathos speaks the turbulent episteme of the world, as well as the turbulence of the body. A structure emerges, mathematical, that is, arbitrary and complex, a structure which contemporary science sees as problematizing the simple passage from local to global phenomena. Outside of the ordered space of classical geometry; outside of the legal determinism of newtonian physics which ignores singularity; outside, as well, of the restrictive rules of a former poetics, diderot's works demonstrate a genuine passion for complexity -- for a universe invested of relations, in which the classical metaphysics of substance is abolished. Recent works, such as diderot. Le labyrinthe de la relation by pierre saint-amand (1984) and nature et liberte chez diderot apres l'encyclopedie by gerhardt stenger (1994), applying a heuristic method inspired by the works of michel serres to the works of diderot, insist on the importance of epistemological reflexion in diderot's writings in areas as diverse as music, painting, history, politics and, of course, literature. But if epistemocriticism -- for this is also the subject of this thesis -- succeeds in revealing relational networks and models, it often does so to the detriment of the integrity of its object, by which we mean its textuality, its literality, its literarity. By keeping in the forefront of our own reflexion serres' insistance on the literarity of the text, where knowledge and subjectivity coincide, we have attempted to expose, on the one hand, the knowledge which informs particular representations, and on the other hand, to pose the question of the effect of subjectivity in writing, without reducing the importance of one or the other. Serres' model, which we have adopted, being tabular in nature, is also topological, permitting the organization of series of isomorphic figures (interferences, clouds, fever, vapors, noise). This model inspires our hypothesis: underwritten by pathos, diderot's understanding of the world, and of the subject, is materialist in nature, allowing him to conceive simultaneously of the aleatory and the predictable, of order and chaos. We explore how this understanding evolves through a discursive practice which manifests, in its own economy, the rule of pathos which informs it
Ndagano, Jean-Marie. "Narration et intertextualité dans "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" de Denis Diderot." Bordeaux 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991BOR30046.
Full textJacques le fataliste is a puzzle created by diderot, based on his own experience as a man, as a writer and a reader. This thesis analyzes how different utterances, real or imagined, taken from his life, his time and his readings, has been integrated, organised and recalled, blended into a single meaning in order to get the new with the old. But what could one imagine as the common thread that would give unity to this work? one possibility: transmodalization. Diderot replaces as much as possible, narration by dramatic dialogue, thus transforming the novel into the realm of dialogue as creation and renewal, thus offering the tales and opening on to new paths and voices, and possibility to shed to carcass in wich which the novel was emprisonned. However, intertextual technique and dramatic dialogue are nothing more than a pretext for a vaster project: writing and reading as objects and subjects of novel. Therefore, the themes of travel, sexuality and fatalism are only metaphors for oscripturel adventure. Jacques le fatali liste is a mise en abyme of its own production and its reception, its reader and its reading. From this point of view, diderot is not only a precursor of the modern novel, he is also our contemporary
Araujo, Carolina Ribeiro Paraíso. "A natureza artificial do teatro: Diderot e os paradoxos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19437.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to present the importance of the theatre according to Denis Diderot point of view. Thus, based on his thoughts, try to understand the purposes of which, the philosopher will demonstrate from the representative act, in France during the 18th century. Diderot suggests an improvement in the way of making theatre, as well as in its own theatrical representations. The philosopher will determine a theory for the actors to improve their performances. The performances should be based on nature observation, aiming to be studied and represented with pure rationality. In this regard, he gives emphasis to artificiality in disadvantage of nature to create perfection in a scene. In Diderot’s point of view, the theatre should be and do the job of remove society’s addictions and make people work on their virtue. In addition, theater plays should approach people’s busy lives and through that he suggests and introduces a new genre called drama and it is a genre that can be classified as intermediate, being in between tragedy and comedy
A presente dissertação tem como intuito analisar a importância do teatro no pensamento de Denis Diderot. Portanto, buscamos como isso entender os propósitos, aos quais o filósofo evidenciará a partir do ato representativo na França do século XVIII. Diderot, não só propõe uma reforma no modo de fazer teatro como também nas próprias representações teatrais. O filósofo irá formalizar uma teoria para que os atores pudessem aprimorar suas atuações. Estas devem ser pautadas na observação da natureza, com a finalidade de serem estudadas e representadas com a mais pura racionalidade. Neste sentido, o enciclopedista enfatiza a artificialidade em detrimento da natureza para existir a primazia em cena. O teatro para Diderot deveria ser e fazer o papel de expurgar os vícios da sociedade, fazendo com que os indivíduos aprimorassem a virtude. Além do mais as peças teatrais deveriam retratar a vida corriqueira das pessoas e com isso propõe e inaugura um novo gênero, este seria o gênero sério ou drama, o qual é intermediário, está entre a tragédia e a comédia
Habib, Raid Jabbar. "Les conceptions de l'aventure dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Diderot." Thesis, Tours, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOUR2002/document.
Full textAfter a lexicographical research into the terms “adventure” and “adventurer” used in the Eighteenth century dictionaries, we were interested in the elements adventure that manifest in the fiction writing of Diderot. The focus is on accidental instances, but stress is also laid on the imaginary characters and their determinations led by dream, daydream, and reading, allowing to confer a philosophical dimension from the beginning of the novel.The development of these adventures amply consolidates this philosophical dimension. In these developments, the stress is always laid on the adventurers’ passions and on their non-conformist dimension. It is seems that the adventurers in Diderot’s novels lead the life of a wanderer and display madness. They, in particular, display non-conformism: This is evident when you compare them with the adventurers produced by the Lumière novelists (especially by Lesage and Voltaire). The third and the final stage of the Diderotian adventure study seeks to understand how the narrated adventures contribute to defending individual freedom and how they carry heavy moral and political connotations. It is for the true originality of Diderot’s adventurers (their bond with art, painting, and music) that his novels are still thriving in the art critique forums
Khadhar, Hédia. "Diderot et l'actualité politique sous les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040297.
Full textDiderot's study of relations and the political events of his era is connected with the study of his political thoughts. The critical analysis out of theoretical texts has not always defined any coherent political doctrine. In studying Diderot’s reactions and the commentaries on politics in the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, comes out a behavior that does not obey an already established political system but which becomes distinct when compared with experience. The studied text cover a period going from 1742 to 1784 and deals essentially with the home and foreign policy of the kingdom. Obviously, it is impossible to find all aspects in the works of Diderot. The interests that he shows towards certain question and not the others is significant. We must point out the signs in the polemic or journalistic literature to which is convenient to add the numerous digression of the general correspondence. In the reign of Louis XV, Diderot’s commentaries are connected with the home policy under its religious, parliamentary, economic, social and cultural aspects, and with the foreign policy of France: 7 years’ war, colonial policy, European foreign policy. In the reign of Louis XVI, his friendship with Turgot and with Necker makes him prudent. Henceforth, it's under the pen of Raynal that Diderot inserts in l'Histoire des deux Indes a real chronical of his era where the home policy is wingled with the numerous problems of the colonies, slavery, and the role of France in the political conflict that shakes Europe, Asia and America. This tortuous research in putting together biography and history has enabled us to retrace a permanent interest of Diderot with the policy of his era and to determine, according to the questions tackled, constant values or values connected with conjunctures having an implication and a meaning that reveal him as a great politician
Kim-Ko, Kye-young. "La figure de l'opposition dans l'œuvre de Diderot." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040068.
Full textThe general plan of this study consists in combining the mechanism of the literary “transformism” of the thought and the idea of a distinctive style in order to extricate “the particular grammar” of Diderot. The notion of opposition is introduced in this frame work as a decisive factor which orientates the dynamic process by which the form and the sense generate each other. The first part is devoted to the analysis of the system of character, support, from which the author develops all the exploitation of the system of opposition. The second part consists of the analysis of the techniques of the novel which bring out the equivalence of contraries and make coincide several narrative registers. The third part is intended to reveal certain verbal invariant of the diderotien speech which transcribe the double and antagonistic thought as well as the reversibility of the things, phenomena, values and human relations. The reduplication, the dividing and the mechanism of inversion reveal as the figure recurrent which explains the employment of certain verbal automatism of the characters and the composition of stories. The opposition makes the works of Diderot open and polysemic in its interpretation. Therefore it becomes the generative of the signification of the work
Suratteau-Iberraken, Aurélie. "La contribution de Denis Diderot à la connaissance des monstres au XVIIIème siècle." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010519.
Full textAcademicians and encyclopedists want to naturalize monsters, according to aristotelian way. Notion of "anomaly" appears rather than notion of "abnormal". Exemplarily, the method founded on "observation" allows academicians to occult providentialism in dispute. Diderot's contribution gives a methodological pattern to the philosopher of science. He shows the background of metaphysical resistances in order to establish accidentalism and epigenesis. The self-organization of matter and the emphasis of accidents make up a new natural history. Double monsters prove limits of dualism to think death, will and personal identity. The context is anthropological. These debates on monsters are indubitably dependent on such a pre-scientific era. Diderot's method aims less at objectifying these vitalistic properties than at establishing his own inscription in the theory of knowledge : scepticism is not a relativism. Newborn legal medicine refers the norm to natural normality, and exposes the confusion between social and natural criterions to legitimate discimination. Medicine and moral science have to take care of malformations and material inequalities, in so far as they commend specialization of institutions. Diderot shows the deadlock of this way of naturalization which is inable to integrate abnormal beings and to rationalize social welfare. However, he doesn't substitute an apology for "difference" for these scientist basis. On the contrary, he dwells on the powers of bodies, the limits to education, and the spontaneous intolerance to pain, so that he institutes a "biological normalcy". Diderot builds up strong conceptual resistances to two contemporary standards of thinking "selection" regarding prenatal diagnosis. He neither makes life sacred nor initiates liberal eugenics. Paradoxically, axiology is rather more dependent on materialistic philosophy than on finalist and spiritualistic systems. The latter are more efficient to consider ways of neutralizing affects
Torlo, Antonio. "Diderot et la guerre." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CLF20082.
Full textThe problem of war in didert's thought is seen from three point view: philosophical, technical and political. Not only the personal works by diderot such as the articles he writed for the encyclopedie have been taken into account but also the "dictionnaire raisonne", in the whole. The first part deals rentle the experience of the war in the 18 century for diderot and his contemporanies, the thesis points ont the religions and philosophical thought of the war, before didert's life and during his life; it the thems analysis and discusses which we can find int the "encyclopedie", it points ont the interest given by diderot during his maturity to the condition of the soldier. His denunciation against the war supports the teste of the critic. Of art in the hattle pointing: the emotional shock should stimulate the citizen-spectator to reflect on them. Even if diderot is not personally interested in the military technics, the art of the war has an importanrole in the encyclopedie: howerer in the second part this idea of military technics is rather conservative, in opposition the innovating proposals of a friend of the encyclopediste, the earl of guibert
Kim, Tae-Hoon. "La structure dialogique dans les drames et les romans de Diderot." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30020.
Full textWorks of Diderot are characterized by the dialogue. There is a tradition of the philosophical dialogue through all the eighteenth century. However, Diderot is not a simple successor of this tradition. While, for most of the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment, the dialogue is considered like a tool to give lessons, Diderot adopts it to show the contradictory ideas of himself and of his time. In his dramatic and romantic works, his heroes have the independent voices of the author’s and possess their own ideas often opposite to those of the author. In this point of view, his works are polyphonic. The dialogues are developed on several plans. They contain not only the conversations between characters, but also the dialogues between texts, between discourses and between genres. It is there that we can find the intertextuality. Referring also the carnival tradition and the plurilinguism, Diderot achieves his works originals
Quintili, Paolo. "La pensée critique de Diderot et l'Encyclopédie : science, poésie, idéologie, 1742-1782." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010622.
Full textThe aim and object of these thesis is to demonstrate the philosophical unity of Diderot's critical thought beyond the broken and scattered nature of his work. Diderot philosopher will be presented as a critical and systematic free- thinker , i. E. A philosopher whose thought, on the one hand, put it down in the contexte of these line of modern philosophy which aims to pass beyond the + first geometrical eye of reason ;, the eye of Descartes, Malebranche and the post-cartesians. On the other hand, Diderot's thought is able to reach a second critical eye ; of reason, deeper, which can see the laws of nature world and, above all, the nature of itself (a philosophy of apperception: spinoza, wolff, english moralists and kant). This second eye is closely linked up with a biological materialism which results from an original dialogue with the naturalisms and medecine of these time: Buffon, La Mettrie, Maupertuis, Bordeu, the École de montpellier. This materialism, drawn up in the " encyclopaedic manufactory ", questions the key-notion of natural individuality ; (connected with a " community of desire (conatus)") - a neologism whose sens is developped in le neveu de rameau and le rêve de d'Alembert -, and it give evidence of the new approach which diderot tests, inside the mouvement of European enlightenment. Diderot presents, on the theatre of modernity, a new historical figure of philosophy : complex individual subjectivity , an uni-totality of think-feel-act, which represents the first substance, unavoidable and elusive, of our contemporary critical thought
Lamoureux, Johanne. "Tabula rasa. Chiasmes de la ruine et du tableau : hubert robert et diderot." Paris, EHESS, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990EHES0316.
Full textAnalysis of the plastic level of the referent in diderot's "poetique des rines". How does the injunction to ruin ("il faut ruiner un palais pour en faire un objet d'interet") allow for a mediation between painting and architecture whose very principles diderot deemend incompatible? h. Robert, it is argued, elaborates an alternative conception of the tableau at the xore of which lies his practice of the picturesque garden. The latter demonstrates the impossibility of diderot's autarcic exigencies for the "tableau ideal" as soon as those demands are to be met on an actual site where contingent accidents become determinant and where the mobile spectator threatens the closure and stability of the picture. This picturesque practice of painting, motivated by a syntagmatic insertion in a given place, (the salon. The salons. The terrain. The musuem,) cuts across the many facets' of robert's expertise on ruins. Study cases: projet d'amenagement de la grande galerie du louvre and vue imaginaire de la grande galerie du louvre en ruines. Pairs of pictures appear to be the ground elected by robert for his many flipping aver of the chiasmus: the turning of the museum into ruins follows the turning of reuins to the museum; the history of history painting leads to a painting of painting's history in which the latter appears. .
Villemin, Flore. "La réfutation chez Diderot : le discours du philosophe dans la polémique religieuse." Thesis, Nancy 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011NAN21024/document.
Full textThe purpose of this study is to observe the features and the scope of the use of refutation in Diderot's works regarding the religious controversy. The philosopher holds a major role in the fight against Superstition, and this study intends to look into the way this fight was put up. Refutation should not be taken here on its rhetorical sense: it is considered as instrumental in the contestation process - which, by the way, above all tackles the lifeless models of the classical rhetoric. Refutation provokes movement by going against the assertion it contradicts; thus it has a function of awakening. In the first part, we look into the different means used to challenge the opposite side, and also the different faces of the opponents. The study of the locutionary positions of these opponents completes this first part, which suggests a scale of polemicity characterising the relationships between Diderot and various kinds of opponents. The second part focuses on the treatment of the opposite discourse and tries to describe how Diderot reports the fallacies of his opponents. Of course Diderot condemns the opposite discourse because of its dogmatism, which necessarily leads to deception, but he also condemns it to death as soon as he includes it in his text. The last part deals with the philosopher's voice constructing its specificity by opposing itself to other ones : not only Diderot denounces and invalidates the opposite discourse, he also conveys his own counter-discourse, whose efficiency is founded on ethical features - among which, first of all, having respect for the other's discourse. The philosopher abides by them, whereas his very enemy, namely dogmatism, does not
Fauvergue, Claire. "Diderot et la philosophie de l'inquiétude." Toulouse 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002TOU20049.
Full textPépin, François. "Philosophie expérimentale et chimie chez Diderot." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100140.
Full textThe experimental philosophy which Diderot constructs in The Interpretation of Nature, can be considered as a central concept in Diderot's philosophy of knowledge. It is first defined as a practise of philosophy taken in a social division of intellectual work. Starting from a frame taken from Bacon, it permits to go deeper into the practical and experimental plane of knowledge, underlining the philosophical dignity of arts and skips. It is in that view that the interest in chemistry can be grasped in its full scope. As a practical knowledge and a theoretical effort, chemistry offers a model to conceive the convection of facts and the preparation of experiments in the spirit of experimental philosophy. To begin with, chemistry thus intervenes as a place to think the entrenchment of a specific theorization and conceptualisation in experimental work. By taking further both his own analysis on the arts and Venel's on chemistry, Diderot developed a precise conception of experimental abstraction based on the analogical genius of practitioners. The convection between the body and knowledge then has to be reconsidered, which is well translated by the original use of luminous images to think out knowledge. It secondly permits to consider the applications from a chemical point of view of experimental philosophy: specifying a criticism of metaphysics and physicomathematical sciences, reconsidering natural necessity and the living in a materialistic scope concerned with the specificity of certain natural regions
Bianco, Jean-François. "La poétique de l'expérience dans l'œuvre de Diderot ou les aventures de l'idéal." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040197.
Full textCoudreuse, Anne. "Tentation et refus du pathos dans la littérature française du XVIIIe siècle : esthétique, éthique, réception." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081318.
Full textThis survey of pathos in 18th century french literature is chiefly concerned with esthetical and ethical matters, as well as with the way they are re-interpreted in the 20th century. Through the reading of a sample of pathetic texts, a definition of pathos itself is envisaged : the word is applicable to whatever technique likely to raise emotion in the reader. The background to this study is thus multiple and ranges from rhetorics to the history of representation. Along with lexicological research, theoretical works of the period, such as those of abbe du bos, marmontel and chamfort, contribute to assert the importance of pathos in the whole 18th century production, especially in the fields of narration and drama. Pathos is somewhat of a melting pot of different esthetical forms and genres. It is a test for language and the body, through which new sexual identities become revealed, since not only women were then allowed to weep. Pathos systematically tends to involve the reader. Although lachrimose writing may be a taste peculiar to the siecle des lumieres, the fact remains that the shedding of tears is, in most cases, politically oriented, as witness its prevalence in legal proceedings or libertine novels. Yet, the seduction of pathos sometimes gives way to rejection. It is then dismissed as mere obscenity, and heavily mocked by parodic and ironic authors. A study of elegy and pathos in chenier's poetry, as well as a number of texts never republished since the 18th century (coqueley de chaussepierre, cubieres, bordes) will be found in the annex
Girard, Fabien. "Les anecdotes dans la correspondance de Diderot." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30081.
Full textThe Enlightenment philosophers use frequently brief fiction in their literary texts. It is a tool that serves to think in and through the narrative or to win the reader's adhesion. The anecdote is part of this register of fictions. Yet, within the framework of a correspondence, one can not solve the anecdotes to these two stakes. Therefore, our thesis has as amibition to study the contexts and the stakes which motivate the use of an anecdote according to the recipient, as well as the role that they have in the epistolary relationship between Diderot and Sophie Volland
Assembe, Ela Charles Philippe. "Diderot : les Salons - modernité - postmodernité : pour une archéologie de la communication sociale et culturelle." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100141.
Full textDiderot is an essay writer, an encyclopédist and a "salonnier". The novelist's texts, those of the erudite and literary man overlap. In 1748, the encyclopedist and "salonnier" to be wrote, under a resounding anonymity, one of the most revealing social writings of his entire career. The thinker writes under the cover of the "citoyen zélé". Nevertheless in the years 1745 and 1770 the religious and political zeals were his motives for philosophizing. The text of 1748 sets up the mediation between the corporation of the academicians and that of the craftsmen. Those of 1745 and 1770 conciliate the social tension. The first of tension deals with the frictions between politics and religion. The second one is concerned with relationships between "le petit peuple" and the technocrats. "Liberal" and "anarchic", the style of thinking "Salon" attracts and worries. Diderot recommends the ambulatory writing, but it's nonnetheless that his philosophy is "sévère'. Although it is frivolous, the philosophy reveals itself in a "casuistique" where thinking tests the method "expectante" in matter of human sciences
Macek, Daniel G. "Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières : at play in the hôtel." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20488.
Full textDefinitively establishing the conventions and taste of the theatre in eighteenth century France, Denis Diderot's The Paradox of Acting established the role of the poetic genius in relation to his or her audience. The relationship to the audience as enabled by the conventions of good taste allows for an understanding of Le Camus' unique analogy of architecture and the sensations, giving to his architecture the ability to provide a cathartic morality as put forth by Diderot.
Sécardin, Olivier. "Sémiocritique de l'hybridité : du moderne au postmoderne." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040300.
Full textHybridity is considered here as a text production mode. Characterizing both the objects produced – from Diderot to Madonna – and the interpretative protocols, it is itself interpreted as a hybrid. When summed up, it points itself out as a reflexive thesis: a hybridity about hybridity. But without innocence: it plays all the way down the game of interpretation and language. It capitalizes as much as possible on its presupposition insofar as hybridity is just as well the property of an interpretative system within the limits of which text is continuously created. Thus, hybridity will be what will happen when you read. And, as always with interpretation, only paying a certain kind of attention to this topic will make hybrid qualities emerge. But then how to recognize a hybrid? Most simply: in all conviction. One does not recognize a hybrid when one sees one, but when one thinks seeing one. Does this constitute a thesis? Rather a topic, just as there are Freudian topics: hybridity can be a descriptive framework but does not constitute a “theory” stricto sensu. Theory is not the strongest aspect of hybridity but, when exercising its power, hybridity can use theoretical discourse, at least to know how to produce it, thus making it possible to say, afterwards, that it is there. A semiocriticism of hybridity is neither a semiotics, nor a theory, but rather a critical performance, a rhetoric and, as we live in a rhetorical world, it aims at common sense in all the meanings of the word