Le phénomène de laïcisation, qui, dans nos sociétés occidentales, cherche à s’affranchir du sacré, a contribué à l’émergence d’une figuration de l’humain au centre de l’univers. Malgré ce progrès, perdurent aujourd’hui, sur le terrain même de la laïcité, des traces du sacré qui induisent des tensions entre foi et savoir. Deux universaux, qui légitimement s’attirent et se repoussent, interrogent plus fondamentalement l’humain, allant jusqu’à remettre en question l’élaboration ontologique dont il a fait l’objet. Un constat qui pose le diagnostic de sa propre fin. En effet, la question de l’anthropos persiste malgré tout à s’articuler à l’intérieur de la tradition de la religion. Si la modernité, notamment amorcée par l’anthropologie kantienne, pose les premières tentatives d’une émancipation du sacré en prônant l’autonomie de la raison, il reste que l’idéal de cet humain, dit laïc, ne renonce pas vraiment au monde de Dieu. Et, pour cause, il se représente toujours sur le terrain de la laïcité en contraste avec l’humain religieux. Cherchant à dépasser les résistances relatives au monde de Dieu, je propose de faire émerger et de se représenter, au travers d’une expérience de la pensée, l’humain laïc par-delà le geste interprétatif imposé par l’institutionnalisation de la religion. Je remonte donc aux premières traces de l’humain qui persistent dans ses testaments, ses métarécits, avant tout humain. Des testaments qu’on pourrait croire oubliés, mais non perdus. Je remonte comme un archéologue de la langue au moment des premières nominations dans l’écriture qui surgissent de la Genèse. À ces Écritures qui, en définitive, viennent aussi rappeler que le syndrome de Babel plonge toujours l’humain dans sa propre dissémination, celle de son nom propre. Surgit la nécessité de se traduire comme une oeuvre, à nouveau, dans sa propre langue, pour survivre. Se traduire, pour « se savoir » humain, plutôt pour « se savoir anthropos ». Pour en comprendre la tâche, j’ai convoqué trois anciens : Paul de Tarse, Sénèque et Clément d’Alexandrie. J’ai scruté et croisé les mises en scène des nominations de l’humain à partir des occurrences du mot « anthropos » et « homo » dans l’écriture en écartant le plus possible le prisme interprétatif imposé par l’institutionnalisation de la religion. Je me suis inspiré d’un dispositif interprétatif stoïcien à partir d’Épictète pour faire surgir, au travers d’une mise en dialogue de ces trois anciens, la traduction d’un humain laïc. Une traduction qui relève d’une anthropologie du bonheur fondée sur la cohérence des disciplines du jugement, du désir et de l’action. Une traduction, certes, mais aussi une expérience d’écriture qui a amené à penser, en dernière instance, qu’au demeurant, avant la lettre, il y a lieu de penser l’émergence d’un anthropos, ni profane, ni sacré, ni religieux, ni laïque, qu’il y a lieu de « se savoir » anthropos. / The secularization phenomenon, which in our western societies seeks to free itself from the sacred, has contributed to the emergence of a human figuration at the centre of the universe. Despite this progress, traces of the sacred that induce tensions between faith and knowledge continue to prevail today within secularization. These two universal concepts, which legitimately attract and repel each other, fundamentally question the human, to the point of putting into question the human’s underlying ontology. An observation that poses its own diagnosis. In fact, the question of the anthropos continues to articulate itself within the tradition of religion. If modernity, initiated by Kantian anthropology, poses the first attempts of an emancipation of the sacred by advocating the autonomy of reason, this idealized secular human does not renounce the world of God. And with good reason, as it is always represented as secular in contrast with the human of the religious sphere. Seeking to overcome all forms of resistance regarding the divine dimension, I propose letting the human emerge and come to be represented by means of a thought experiment that extends beyond the interpretative gesture imposed by the institutionalization of religion. I will go back to the first traces of the human that persist in early documents and texts that precede the concept of human as we understand it. This legacy may have been forgotten, but it was not lost. In the manner of an archaeologist of languages, I return to the first moments of naming in writing that takes place in Genesis. In these writings, which recall the event of Babel that plunges the human into the dissemination of its proper name, emerges the need for the human being to translate itself anew, as a work, in its own language, just to survive. Translate itself in order to know itself as human rather than as "anthropos". To understand the modalities of this task, I’ve brought together the ancient thinkers Paul of Tarsus, Seneca, and Clement of Alexandria. In analyzing these writings, I have scrutinized and cross-referenced the nominations of the human from the occurrences of the words "anthropos" and "homo", while avoiding as much as possible the interpretive prism imposed by the institutionalization of religion. I sought inspiration from a stoic interpretive framework deriving from Epictetus to create, through dialogue with these three ancient thinkers, the translation of the secular human. A translation that stems from the anthropology of happiness based on the coherence of the disciplines of judgment, desire and action. A translation, has ultimately led to thinking that, avant la lettre, before writing, there is a way to think the emergence of anthropos, neither profane, sacred, religous or secular, that there is a way to "know oneself" as anthropos.

SOUZA, Francisco Renato. A Fúria do Corpo, de João Gilberto Noll, sob o signo da Santíssima Trindade: errância, sexo e escrita. 2010. 113f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-28T13:59:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-23T12:20:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-23T12:20:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_ FRSOUZA.pdf: 709473 bytes, checksum: 2ee198c2d8027fe940c99a2a52d8bd26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Esta dissertação analisa a obra A fúria do corpo, do escritor João Gilberto Noll, a partir de três perspectivas: primeira, o estudo da obra dá-se através do pensamento do filósofo francês Maurice Blanchot, no qual discutimos a construção da linguagem do texto nolliano nos seguintes aspectos: a fragmentação da autoria do texto, a impossibilidade da escrita manter-se estável, a impossibilidade da morte no espaço literário e a errância dos personagens como modo propulsor dos sucessivos movimentos da elaboração da narrativa, dentre outros. Segunda, fazemos um contraponto entre a narrativa nolliana em análise e a mitologia cristã e, em determinados momentos, com a mitologia grega, uma vez que observamos, em A fúria do corpo, a dessacralização dos sagrados mitos cristãos, como por exemplo, o Pecado Original, o nascimento, crucificação, morte e ressurreição de Jesus Cristo e o Juízo Final; bem como a dessacralização do mito grego de Afrodite, no que se refere à sua significação. Ao tirar o caráter sagrado desses mitos, a escrita de Noll os reveste com uma nova leitura, que subverte o que deles conhecemos comumente. Terceira, por ser o primeiro romance de Noll, A fúria do corpo apresenta a maioria dos temas vindouros da extensa obra do escritor, ora seguindo um ritmo em comum à obra em análise, ora distinguindo-se dela. Desse modo, fazemos um jogo de espelhos, no qual investigamos as recorrências dos temas que aparecem na obra A fúria do corpo e que podem ser observadas em outras obras do mesmo escritor a fim de constatarmos um percurso dessa escrita tão arrebatadora.

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In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.

Orientador: Marcos Antonio Siscar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T13:27:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SmaniotoMacedo_SheylaCristina_M.pdf: 1236721 bytes, checksum: e115db0fa0dd4d1c7365e06e80540dba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A presente dissertação propõe-se a um estudo sobre a escrita do neutro em Maurice Blanchot. Começamos com a proposição do que seria uma possível poética do neutro, na introdução. No capítulo um, abordamos o neutro em sua relação com o dehors, a partir da História da loucura (1961) de Foucault e da leitura desta obra feita por Pélbart (1989). A preocupação é contextualizar o neutro para, no capítulo seguinte, trazê-lo em relação com as exigências da "cruel razão poética", abordada por Blanchot (1969) a partir da leitura de Artaud, aproximando as poéticas desses dois autores. Em seguida, no capítulo três, com o apoio de Dubreuil (2003), partiremos da análise de dois textos ¿ Thomas L'Obscur de Blanchot e "Carta à vidente" de Artaud ¿ a propósito da ideia de possessão, tal como esta encontra espaço em suas concepções sobre a criação poética. O objetivo é, depois de aproximar Artaud e Blanchot, situar onde a escrita deles é diferente, muito embora partam de questões semelhantes. Isto feito, tornamo-nos capazes de afirmar, com o auxílio do mito das sereias, a escrita do neutro como a articulação de uma "metalinguagem dramática" que permite a Blanchot, ao aproveitar-se das estruturas do pensamento mítico, realizar seu pensamento em um terreno provisório / Abstract: This dissertation proposes a study on the writing of the neutral in Maurice Blanchot. We start with the proposition of a possible poetic of the neutral. In chapter one, we approach the neutral by its relationship with the dehors from Madness and Civilization (Foucault, 1961) and the reading of this work done by Pelbart (1989). The concern is to contextualize the neutral and bring it in relation to the demands of the "cruel poetic reason", addressed by Blanchot (1969) from reading Artaud. Then, in chapter three, with the support of Dubreuil (2003), we will base the analysis of two texts - Thomas L'Obscur (Blanchot, 1950) and "Letter to the clairvoyant" (Artaud, 1929) - in connection with the idea of possession, as this finds room in their conceptions of poetic creation. The objective is, after approaching Artaud and Blanchot, place them where their writing is different, even though departing from similar issues. This done, we become able to claim, with the aid of the myth of mermaids, the writing of the neutral as the articulation of a "dramatic meta-language" that allows Blanchot to perform his own thinking on a temporary ground by availing the mythical thought structures / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestra em Teoria e História Literária

Mémoire en recherche-création / Sōma, c’est le temps de l’inscription de l’écrit sur et dans le corps, c’est le temps de la somatisation, de la révélation de l’affect comme symptôme, du corps qui réplique à la violence extérieure. C’est également un recueil de fragments qui se suivent comme tant de scènes et qui, à la manière d’un « corps sans organes », se lient les uns aux autres selon des connexions productives, « des circuits de conjonctions, des étagements et des seuils, des passages et des distributions d’intensité, des territoires et des déterritorialisations […] ». Un peu comme chez Collobert, l’aventure des fragments s’inscrit avant tout dans un parcours phénoménologique, dans les moyens que se donne le texte pour traduire l’expérience corporelle de la souffrance. Dans Sōma, la narration oscille entre le passé, temps de l’enfermement, de la maladie, des premiers balbutiements de l’écriture, et le présent de l’écriture, source de maux comme de soulagement, qui préside à la création du recueil. Grâce à l’enchevêtrement de ces deux temps narratifs, le je poétique explore les différents états du corps féminin souffrant, qu’il s’agisse de souffrance physique comme de souffrance psychologique. « Corps là, noué aux mots » : plasticité de l’écriture et voilement du je dans Dire II de Danielle Collobert interroge d’abord la plasticité à l’œuvre dans le recueil Dire II de Danielle Collobert. Grâce à une étude approfondie du concept de plasticité tel qu’explicité par la philosophe Catherine Malabou, qui emprunte la notion à Hegel, il nous est permis d’en dégager quelques fonctions : potentiel de donation et d’explosion de la forme, du corps et du sujet. Formellement à l’œuvre dans le recueil à l’étude, ces fonctions innervent et décrivent la nature scripturaire du passage de Dire I à Dire II et qualifient, avec justesse, les métamorphoses internes qui ont lieu dans Dire II. Ces fonctions s’incarnent concrètement grâce à un changement de paradigme textuel : la parataxe remplace la phrase longue, l’horizontalité laisse place à la verticalité, les vers deviennent de plus en plus hachurés, le sujet morphologique semble progressivement disparaître. Ce dernier point ouvre la réflexion sur le second pan principal de l’essai, soit, le voilement du je au sein du recueil. Intrinsèquement reliée à la question de la plasticité, l’apparition et la disparition du sujet poétique soulèvent celle de l’assujettissement, c’est-à-dire de la formation du sujet qui, elle aussi, s’inscrit sous le signe de la plasticité puisque le sujet poétique est en constant devenir, il n’est jamais stable, pareil et identique à lui-même. Les métamorphoses ainsi que les différents états du sujet mènent à une étude approfondie des liens qui existent entre celui-ci et son corps, dont la représentation hante le texte. Examinant les liens entre texte, sujet et corps, l’essai esquissera, notamment grâce à l’apport de Maurice Blanchot, Évelyne Grossman, Gilles Deleuze de Jacques Derrida, une pensée de l’écriture comme souffrance corporelle, de la souffrance comme inscription textuelle. / Sōma is the time of an inscription of the text on and in the body, it is the time of somatization, of the revelation of the affect as a symptom, of the body responding to external violence. It is also a collection of fragments which follow one another like so many scenes and which, like a body without organs, are linked to each other according to productive connections, " circuits of conjunctions, stages and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, territories and deterritorializations […]2 ". A bit like with Collobert, the adventure of fragments is first and foremost part of a journey towards a phenomenological writing, in the means that the text gives itself to translate the bodily experience of suffering. In Sōma, the narration oscillates between the past, a time of confinement, illness, the beginning of writing, and the present of writing, a source of pain and relief, which governs the creation of the collection. Through the entanglement of these two narrative tenses, the poetic subject explores the different states of the suffering female body, whether it is physical suffering or psychological suffering. " Body There, Tied to Words " : Plasticity of Writing and Veiling of the I in Dire II by Danielle Collobert first questions the plasticity at work in Danielle Collobert's Dire II. Thanks to an indepth study of the concept of plasticity as explained by the philosopher Catherine Malabou, who borrows the notion from Hegel, we are able to identify some functions: potential for donation and explosion of form, the body and the subject. Formally at work in the work under study, these functions innervate and describe the scriptural nature of the passage from Dire I to Dire II and aptly qualify the internal metamorphoses that take place in Dire II. These functions are concretely embodied thanks to a change of textual paradigm: the parataxis replaces the long sentence, horizontality gives way to verticality, the lines become more and more hatched, the morphological subject seems to gradually disappear. This last point opens the reflection on the second main part of the essay, that is, the veiling of the I within the collection. Intrinsically linked to the question of plasticity, the appearance and disappearance of the poetic subject raises that of subjugation, that is to say of the formation of the subject which, too, is inscribed under the sign of plasticity since the poetic subject is in constant evolution: it is never stable, the same and identical to itself. The metamorphoses as well as the different states of the subject lead to an indepth study of the links that exist between him and his body, the representation of which haunts the text. Examining the links between text, subject and body, the essay will sketch, thanks in particular to the contributions of Maurice Blanchot, Évelyne Grossman, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, a thought of writing as bodily suffering, of suffering as textual inscription.

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Marguerite Duras a assurément pensé à la littérature en se mesurant sans cesse à sa production littéraire et plus amplement, à sa production artistique. Littérature, cinéma, théâtre font en effet l’objet d’une réflexion constante chez l’écrivain qui montre par là une tendance certaine pour la pensée théorique. Si Marguerite Duras a pu s’exprimer négativement vis-à-vis de la théorie, c’est parce qu’elle redoute les dérives de l’esprit théorique qui peut parfois se révéler dogmatique. L’adhésion à l’idéologie du PCF d’abord partagée puis contestée, fait ainsi l’objet de sévères critiques qui donneront raison dans son œuvre à des textes littéraires traversés par cette épreuve du théorique doctrinaire. D’autres engagements théoriques et politiques prouveront en revanche incontestablement l’attrait intellectuel de l’écrivain envers une époque qui, entre les années 1960 et 1980, fait avancer le discours de la théorie et notamment de la modernité littéraire. Cette thèse se propose de montrer que la théorie occupe sans cesse l’esprit de l’auteur, qu’elle se révèle particulièrement sous la forme d’une tentation à laquelle l’écrivain ne succombe jamais définitivement, et qui donc revient comme une obsession habiter et interroger son œuvre. Cette tentation s’intègre d’abord à la vie de Duras qui évolue au sein d’une génération fortement politisée et marquée par la pensée critique. Elle saura ensuite s’incorporer à l’activité créatrice de l’auteur et, dès lors, à sa pratique littéraire et artistique. La tentation du théorique suit ainsi deux directions. Elle passe par une aventure publique, sans pour autant jamais témoigner d’une voix chorale désireuse de se joindre notamment aux nouvelles tendances du Nouveau Roman. Elle se manifestera plutôt comme une voix solitaire, une voix qui s’exprime à travers la confidence privée. Cette voix murmure dans son œuvre ses critères conceptuels personnels qui accompagneront néanmoins la modernité littéraire. La voix de la tentation théorique se confondra enfin à la voix poétique de l’auteur qui révélera, à travers un jeu réflexif, la force productive de son écriture. Vouée sans cesse à faire résonner le mouvement du dernier mot, dépassant les cloisons génériques, la puissance créatrice prodigieuse de Marguerite Duras ira nourrir le paysage à plusieurs facettes de son œuvre ainsi que celui de l’Ecriture moderne. / For sure Marguerite Duras always thought about literature by comparing herself to the rest of literature and the artistic production of her time. Indeed, literature, cinema and theater are the reflexive centers of a constant thinking which shows how much theory is a main issue for the writer herself. Her apparent and negative odds against theory in general are all because of the wanderings of the dogmatic way of the theoretical spirit. Being an active member of the French Communist Party (PCF), sharing its ideological point of view and then quitting it made way for a severe criticism and gave to her literary works a doctrinal trial. Others theoretical and political commitments may decidedly show in contrast her intellectual attraction of the writer for her age which, between the 1960s and the 1980s, made theory and literary modernity look forward. This essay will show how theory is always on Duras’s Mind as it is for her such a temptation that she never totally succumbs to, and that came back as an obsession to haunt and question her works. This temptation marks at first place her life that went through a harsh political generation that also dealt with criticism and thinking. This temptation would also be an important part of her creativity process and made her way unto literary and artistic technicals. The Theoretical temptation she dealt with went on two different ways. She went on a public adventure but without never belonging to the chorus of her times or explicitly belonging to the New Novel too. She stood as a solitary voice, a voice of her that expressed herself as a intimate confidence. This voice whispered in her writings her personal and conceptual thoughts that escorted modernity in literature. Her voice made of theoretical temptation would mingle at last with her poetical voice which reveals, through a reflexive game, the productive strengh of her writing. Vowed to a never-ending movment unto the last word, beyond the walls of all genres, the tremendous creativity of Marguerite Duras will give birth to a mesmerizing landscape in her works that goes unto the modern writing.

A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for tracking metaphysically objective truths. Foucault's notion of aesthetics of existence, his elaboration of the ancient conceptualisation of ethics as an 'art of living' (a technē tou biou), along with a series of interconnected notions (such as the care of the self) that he developed in his later work, have a triple aspect. First, these notions are constitutive parts of his later genealogies of subjectivity. Second, they show that Foucault contemplates the possibility of understanding ethics differently, opposed to, for example, the traditional Kantian conceptualisation of morality: he envisages ethics in terms of self-fashioning, of aesthetic transformation, of turning one's life into a work of art. Third, Foucault employs these notions in self-referential way: they are considered to describe his own genealogical work. This thesis attempts to show two things. First, I defend the idea that the notion of aesthetics of existence was already present in a constitutive way from the beginning of his work, and, specifically, I argue that it can be traced in earlier moments of his work. Second, I defend the idea that this notion of aesthetics of existence is best understood in terms of the sceptical stance of Sextus Empiricus. It describes an ethics of critique of metaphysics that can be understood as a nominalist, contextualist, and particularist stance. The first chapter discusses Foucault's late genealogy of the subject. It formulates the interpretative framework within which Foucault's own conceptualisation of the aesthetics of existence can be understood as a sceptical stance, itself conceived as nominalist, contextualist and particularist. As the practice of an aesthetics of existence is not abstract and ahistorical but the engagement with the specific historical circumstances within which this practice is undertaken, the second chapter reconstructs the intellectual context from which Foucault's thought has emerged (Heidegger, Blanchot, and Nietzsche). The third chapter discusses representative examples of different periods of Foucault's thought -such as the "Introduction" to Binswanger's "Traum und Existenz" (1954), Histoire de la folie (1961), and Histoire de la sexualité I. La volonté de savoir (1976)- and shows in which way they constitute concrete instantiations of his sceptical aesthetics of existence. The thesis concludes with responses to a number of objections to the sceptical stance here defended.

This dissertation offers the first extended study of the work of the Welsh-French poet Heather Dohollau, whose substantial œuvre in French, published since 1974, has recently received international critical recognition. My thesis centres on the idea of traversée, which originates in Dohollau’s experience of exiles, returns and bilingualism. My chapters elucidate five interconnected themes which all relate to that overarching paradigm. Chapter 1 focuses on Dohollau’s trajectories as reflected in poems on the memory of place, concentrating on South Wales and the island. The quest for place is also a quest for the past, which is handled as an after-image capable of upwelling into the present. Chapter 2 investigates the visual-verbal bilingualism towards which Dohollau’s texts on specific artworks (or ekphrastic texts) seem to strive. Dohollau revitalizes the ekphrastic tradition and challenges its conventional connotations of power struggle (W. J. T. Mitchell) in favour of a poetics of hospitality. Chapter 3 is dedicated to Dohollau’s ethos and practice of slowness. It undertakes a close-reading analysis of her syntactic and sound-related rhythms, connecting them with Derrida’s différance. The idea of poetry as a foreign language is discussed in chapter 4: Dohollau’s adoption of French as her main poetic language in the mid-1960s, her handling of motherhood and daughterhood, and her quest for a poetics of mourning and fidelity are examined in their interrelations. The concluding chapter explores the boundaries between language and the unsaid. Dohollau has been uniquely placed to engage with postwar reassessments of language and its limits (Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot), poised as she is between languages and media. As her poems show, such limits constitute a poetic resource in their own right. Her carefully cultivated liminal stance has given her important insights into the creative process as a passage into words from an unwritten, yet not utterly inchoate other of the poem.