Pierre Saint-Amand
Biographic Data
| ID | 303756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre Saint-Amand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Saint-Amand |
| SIGNATURE | SAINT-AMAND P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Les petits-maîtres modernes
Cet article se concentre sur un personnage de l’histoire de la mode masculine au XVIIIe siècle et de l’histoire du libertinage, le petit-maître. Parcourant pièces de théâtre, écrits satiriques, dictionnaires qui s’acharnent sur lui, nous refaisons le portrait intrigant de ce personnage et nous rappelons l’angoisse de l’époque sur son identité sexuelle paradoxale. En effet, le petit-maître hésite entre le masculin et le féminin. Il veut s’éloigner…
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The pursuit of laziness
Paradox of the Idler
This chapter explores how Diderot makes the idler into a figure of modernity. Diderot's idler appears in urban space. In the title character of Le Neveu de Rameau ( Rameau's Nephew ), he offers an example of alternative subjectivation. The dialogue between the philosopher and the vagabond brings face to face two opposing figures of idleness, as well as two opposing relationships to the work. Like Marivaux's Spectator, Diderot's philosopher enjoys…
Diderot's letters to Sophie Volland
The Letters to Sophie Volland are a documentary record of Diderot's relationship with Louise-Henriette Volland (1716–84), whom the philosophe decides to call ‘Sophie’, a name evoking wisdom. As Sophie's own letters have disappeared without trace, this correspondence can seem like a long monologue on Diderot's part, a drawn-out plaint from the man of letters who has fallen in love, an extended apostrophe. Jacques Chouillet uses the striking phrase…
Eighteenth-century margins
Exploring ‘margins’ in the eighteenth century entails searching the places where the century overflows its bounds, and refuses to be contained or corralled by any monolithic notion. In a book published several decades ago, Georges Benrekassa reopened this question, with a view to re-examining the screen of rationality that veiled the century, a rationality conceived as ‘faith’. For Benrekassa, the margins of the Enlightenment are to be found abov…
The Surprises of Laziness
This chapter discusses how Pierre Carlet de Marivaux repeatedly mentions laziness as a private dream. Marivaux's laziness is intimately linked to writing, to its constant renegotiation of the future. The chapter examines Marivaux as a journalist, in writings that could well be described as youthful efforts, produced in the interval between his dramatic publications and his law degree. It becomes apparent that the modernity broached by Marivaux is…
Le mausolée des absents
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Barthes's Laziness
In Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Barthes confesses his passion for dialectic, for binary play: in Barthes's view, this demon of contradiction is the beginning of meaning, of writing as "deporting." 1 In the constellation of dialectical terms that cut across his work, I would like to explore the opposition between work and leisure, which fuels Barthes's discourse and his imaginary. The junction of leisure and work undergoes an interesting deve…
Insolence et incivilité chez Diderot
Saint-Amand Pierre. Insolence et incivilité chez Diderot. In: Communications, 69, 2000. La déférence, sous la direction de Claudine Haroche. pp. 61-69
The Libertine's Progress
The Immortals
Hot Terror
In La Machine a Terreur, Laurent Dispot discovers a singular origin for Terror in French Revolution: thermodynamics. He describes founding process that imparts energy to Jacobin government. Terror is a closed system, it operates like a machine that transforms revolutionary heat into work. A heat source is used, and heat flows toward a series of regulatory structures-the Terror contains, diverts, and transforms original insurrectional From this po…
Contingency and the Enlightenment
Etude de la position de M. Serres face a la critique postmoderne de l'ideologie rationaliste des philosophes des Lumieres, representee par Foucault, Baudrillard et Lyotard. A l'idee d'un chemin necessaire chez Descartes et a l'ensemble de la methode cartesienne, M. Serres oppose la notion de randonnee comme espace contingent et complexe, qui s'inscrit dans l'heritage de la conception experimentale de la physique developpee par Diderot dans son tr…
The Secretive Body
Pierre Saint-Amand, Charles A. Porter, Noah Guynn, The Secretive Body: Roland Barthes's Gay Erotics, Yale French Studies, No. 90, Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (1996), pp. 153-171
The Sorrows of Lol V. Stein
Les Lois de l'hostilite
Terrorizing Marie Antoinette
Original Vengeance
IN THE VIEW OF ERNST CASSIRER, Enlightenment thought is inhabited, even obsessed, by a paradox: the question of the origins of humanity. Haunted by its origins, the Enlightenment is condemned to a process of continual regression with respect to itself. Fundamentally, the question of origins runs counter to the central project of the Enlightenment, that is, the development of rationalism with a view to progress. More precisely, Cassirer writes tha…
"Les Mille et une nuits" d'Antoine Galland
Le Bal masque de Giacomo Casanova
L'Etre et l'Autre
Palimpsestes. La litterature au second degre
Diderot ou le materialisme enchante
Le Calcul polemique
Terrorizing Marie Antoinette
L'Etre et l'Autre
Palimpsestes. La litterature au second degre
Diderot ou le materialisme enchante
The Secretive Body
Pierre Saint-Amand, Charles A. Porter, Noah Guynn, The Secretive Body: Roland Barthes's Gay Erotics, Yale French Studies, No. 90, Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (1996), pp. 153-171
Le Calcul polemique
Mallarme
Diderot ou le materialisme enchante
L'Etre et l'Autre
Palimpsestes. La litterature au second degre
Le Bal masque de Giacomo Casanova
"Les Mille et une nuits" d'Antoine Galland
Original Vengeance
IN THE VIEW OF ERNST CASSIRER, Enlightenment thought is inhabited, even obsessed, by a paradox: the question of the origins of humanity. Haunted by its origins, the Enlightenment is condemned to a process of continual regression with respect to itself. Fundamentally, the question of origins runs counter to the central project of the Enlightenment, that is, the development of rationalism with a view to progress. More precisely, Cassirer writes tha…
Les Lois de l'hostilite
Terrorizing Marie Antoinette
The Secretive Body
Pierre Saint-Amand, Charles A. Porter, Noah Guynn, The Secretive Body: Roland Barthes's Gay Erotics, Yale French Studies, No. 90, Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (1996), pp. 153-171
The Sorrows of Lol V. Stein
Contingency and the Enlightenment
Etude de la position de M. Serres face a la critique postmoderne de l'ideologie rationaliste des philosophes des Lumieres, representee par Foucault, Baudrillard et Lyotard. A l'idee d'un chemin necessaire chez Descartes et a l'ensemble de la methode cartesienne, M. Serres oppose la notion de randonnee comme espace contingent et complexe, qui s'inscrit dans l'heritage de la conception experimentale de la physique developpee par Diderot dans son tr…
The Immortals
Hot Terror
In La Machine a Terreur, Laurent Dispot discovers a singular origin for Terror in French Revolution: thermodynamics. He describes founding process that imparts energy to Jacobin government. Terror is a closed system, it operates like a machine that transforms revolutionary heat into work. A heat source is used, and heat flows toward a series of regulatory structures-the Terror contains, diverts, and transforms original insurrectional From this po…
The Libertine's Progress
Insolence et incivilité chez Diderot
Saint-Amand Pierre. Insolence et incivilité chez Diderot. In: Communications, 69, 2000. La déférence, sous la direction de Claudine Haroche. pp. 61-69
Barthes's Laziness
In Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Barthes confesses his passion for dialectic, for binary play: in Barthes's view, this demon of contradiction is the beginning of meaning, of writing as "deporting." 1 In the constellation of dialectical terms that cut across his work, I would like to explore the opposition between work and leisure, which fuels Barthes's discourse and his imaginary. The junction of leisure and work undergoes an interesting deve…
Le mausolée des absents
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
The pursuit of laziness
Paradox of the Idler
This chapter explores how Diderot makes the idler into a figure of modernity. Diderot's idler appears in urban space. In the title character of Le Neveu de Rameau ( Rameau's Nephew ), he offers an example of alternative subjectivation. The dialogue between the philosopher and the vagabond brings face to face two opposing figures of idleness, as well as two opposing relationships to the work. Like Marivaux's Spectator, Diderot's philosopher enjoys…
Diderot's letters to Sophie Volland
The Letters to Sophie Volland are a documentary record of Diderot's relationship with Louise-Henriette Volland (1716–84), whom the philosophe decides to call ‘Sophie’, a name evoking wisdom. As Sophie's own letters have disappeared without trace, this correspondence can seem like a long monologue on Diderot's part, a drawn-out plaint from the man of letters who has fallen in love, an extended apostrophe. Jacques Chouillet uses the striking phrase…
Eighteenth-century margins
Exploring ‘margins’ in the eighteenth century entails searching the places where the century overflows its bounds, and refuses to be contained or corralled by any monolithic notion. In a book published several decades ago, Georges Benrekassa reopened this question, with a view to re-examining the screen of rationality that veiled the century, a rationality conceived as ‘faith’. For Benrekassa, the margins of the Enlightenment are to be found abov…
The Surprises of Laziness
This chapter discusses how Pierre Carlet de Marivaux repeatedly mentions laziness as a private dream. Marivaux's laziness is intimately linked to writing, to its constant renegotiation of the future. The chapter examines Marivaux as a journalist, in writings that could well be described as youthful efforts, produced in the interval between his dramatic publications and his law degree. It becomes apparent that the modernity broached by Marivaux is…
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Art (17 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (8 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (8 works) · French Literature and Criticism (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)