Olivier Pot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1184360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Pot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Pot |
| SIGNATURE | POT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Histoire universelle of Agrippa d’Aubigné (1616–1626), or when the historian becomes a cosmograph
At the end of the sixteenth century, a new conception of history appeared that Jean Bodin theorized in France as geographistory. Building on the discoveries of the New World and the subsequent onset of globalization, and drawing on Polybius's Histories as well as Stoic cosmopolitanism, geographistory aimed to impose a coherent and authentic order ("metre en ordre des choses tant désordonnees") on the puzzle of fortuitous historical events by appe…
Simon Goulart, Un pasteur aux intérêts vastes comme le monde
Pot, Olivier (ed.). Simon Goulart, Un pasteur aux intérêts vastes comme le monde. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2014, pp. 5-198), on Érudit
Entre Clio et Melpomène. Les fictions de l’histoire chez Agrippa d’Aubigné
Pot, Olivier (éd.). Entre Clio et Melpomène. Les fictions de l’histoire chez Agrippa d’Aubigné. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation), on Érudit
Les noces de la linguistique et de la littérature
Entre théorie et fiction
From Passions to Drives
The eighteenth century, having inherited a pessimism from classical anthropology that its own ideology of progress had to absorb, seemed to have invented le mal de vivre. Clues to this condition are suggested by the etymology of the term vacuus: vacuousness of existence ("Everywhere I find a terrifying emptiness," asserted the hero of a novel around 1769), and "a vague disquiet which permeates everything and finds nothing to calm it," according t…
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From Passions to Drives
The eighteenth century, having inherited a pessimism from classical anthropology that its own ideology of progress had to absorb, seemed to have invented le mal de vivre. Clues to this condition are suggested by the etymology of the term vacuus: vacuousness of existence ("Everywhere I find a terrifying emptiness," asserted the hero of a novel around 1769), and "a vague disquiet which permeates everything and finds nothing to calm it," according t…
Les noces de la linguistique et de la littérature
Entre théorie et fiction
Entre Clio et Melpomène. Les fictions de l’histoire chez Agrippa d’Aubigné
Pot, Olivier (éd.). Entre Clio et Melpomène. Les fictions de l’histoire chez Agrippa d’Aubigné. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation), on Érudit
Simon Goulart, Un pasteur aux intérêts vastes comme le monde
Pot, Olivier (ed.). Simon Goulart, Un pasteur aux intérêts vastes comme le monde. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2014, pp. 5-198), on Érudit
The Histoire universelle of Agrippa d’Aubigné (1616–1626), or when the historian becomes a cosmograph
At the end of the sixteenth century, a new conception of history appeared that Jean Bodin theorized in France as geographistory. Building on the discoveries of the New World and the subsequent onset of globalization, and drawing on Polybius's Histories as well as Stoic cosmopolitanism, geographistory aimed to impose a coherent and authentic order ("metre en ordre des choses tant désordonnees") on the puzzle of fortuitous historical events by appe…
Philosophy (6 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work)