Jean Starobinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 325755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Starobinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Starobinski |
| SIGNATURE | STAROBINSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Observaciones sobre el estructuralismo
Introduction à Stendhal
Savoir rationnel et poésie
Diderot, un diable de ramage
« J’ai un diable de ramage saugrenu, moitié des gens du monde et des lettres, moitié de la halle. » C’est le Neveu de Rameau qui le dit à son interlocuteur, qui l’écoute et qui lui réplique. Car Diderot est un écrivain qui tend l’oreille en tous lieux. À la ville, chez les imprimeurs, dans les salons, dans les villages, il a été constamment à l’affût des grandes rumeurs de son siècle. C’est lui qui déclare : « Autant d’hommes, autant de cris dive…
Diderot: Une géographie des ramages
Rousseau et la rétroversion causale
Texte inédit
Jour sacré et jour profane
Jean Starobinski et les arts: Une relation critique
Jean Starobinski, historien d'art ? Pour ceux qui le connaissent, la question trouve une rponse aise. Ses premires coles incluaient le piano dans les classes suprieures du Conservatoire de musique. Diplm de l'Universit de Genve en lettres classiques puis en mdecine, il s'est vou l'histoire des ides dans le domaine de la mdecine et surtout de la littrature. L'art occupe une place capitale dans son oeuvre. Le visiteur qu'il accueille dans son appar…
Quand la parole promet de la monnaie: Échange avec Maurice Olender
Mémoire de Troie
O contra
Para abrir o acesso da linguagem às realidades sensíveis, é preciso, para Ramuz, atacar o objeto em sua massa, respeitando sua diferença. Ramuz experimenta felicidade quando permanece entre as coisas do mundo. Mas uma hostilidade é inseparável dessa felicidade. Seu olhar vai contra as coisas, ou as vê virem contra ele
Avant-propos. Aveux et secrets de la musique
Dead World, Living Hearts: Elements of Romantic Mythology
The Reveries sur la nature primitive de l'homme are one of the important books of the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this text, Senancour limns an image of the world in accordance with the scientific thought of his time. It is a disenchanted image, dominated by mechanical necessity, and in it the distinction between good and evil no longer holds. God is absent; the world is not his creation. And Senancour expresses no regret:Everything in nat…
Rousseau dans la marge de Montaigne: Cinq notes inédites
Lettres et syllabes mobiles: Complément à la lecture des Cahiers d'anagrammes de Ferdinand de Saussure
Mobile letters and syllabes. A complement to reading Ferdinand de Saussure's anagrams. Saussure detected, through phonic analysis, the dissemination of the sound substance of words throughout a considerable number of Latin, Greek, and neo- Latin texts, to the point of seeing in this phenomena a «professional secret ». If generalisation is unjustifiable, yet this observation is corroborated not only in neo Latin poetry but also in vernacular, and …
Diderot et l'art de la démonstration
Jean Starobinski : Diderot and the Art of Demonstration. Diderot's writings express an interest in the three meanings of the word "demonstration" found in 18th-century dictionaries, but he was particularly concerned with geometrical demonstration. In the Pensées philosophiques, geometrical demonstration is preferred to Biblical facts and miracles ; in the Pensées sur l'Interprétation de la nature, it is considered to be less satisfactory than exp…
Médecine et antimédecine
Note sur l'angine de poitrine et la mort subite
Starobinski Jean. Note sur l'angine de poitrine et la mort subite. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n°12, 1992. pp. 178-180
Literature and the Beauty of the World
When the world reveals a part of its beauty, what should our reaction be? How can we respond adequately? Is not our initial reaction one of a "discrepancy between our impressions and their habitual expression?" It is this question that Proust poses in one of the crucial passages early on in his masterpiece. Describing his walks along Méséglise's Way, and "the humble discoveries" he made there, the narrator details for us the overwhelming, decisiv…
El pacto de 1291
Ponts sur le vide: Note sur Italo Calvino
Empty space is a constant, in Calvino's work, as a condition for existence or creation. The dichotomy is one of the many that inform his work, and is most notably linked to that between form and formlessness. Calvino does not aim at antithesis or synthesis between poles, but at the production of multiplicity - bridges of language. Thus formal rules of literary construction are not empty (vain) for Calvino ; they serve as guides through (and for) …
Le Remede dans le mal: Critique et legitimation de l'artifice a l'age des Lumieres
Sur une serie d'exemples, l'auteur examine le langage et les arguments qui furent employes, au 17e et au 18e siecle, dans la critique des conduites masquees et des conventions de societe
À escuta do pacto e da Grande Prece dos confederados
Présence des classiques
The Sacred and the Profane Day
The day is one of the fundamental experiences of our natural existence. The obvious cycle of the sun, the alternation of sleep and being awake provide a link between the life of the body and the great regularity that assigns their successive moments to light and to darkness. Only a simplified abstraction allows us to consider time lived as an homogeneous flow. Our existence, in its proper substance and in its larger environment, is dominated by t…
The Idea of Nostalgia
In tracing the history of emotions and of mentalities, one is immediately confronted with a question of method resulting from the interplay of emotions and language.The emotions whose history we wish to retrace are accessible to us only from the time when they find expression, verbally or by other means. For the critic, for the historian, an emotion exists only beyond the point at which it attains a linguistic status. No facet of an emotion can b…
Diderot et l'art de la démonstration
Jean Starobinski : Diderot and the Art of Demonstration. Diderot's writings express an interest in the three meanings of the word "demonstration" found in 18th-century dictionaries, but he was particularly concerned with geometrical demonstration. In the Pensées philosophiques, geometrical demonstration is preferred to Biblical facts and miracles ; in the Pensées sur l'Interprétation de la nature, it is considered to be less satisfactory than exp…
Le Remede dans le mal: Critique et legitimation de l'artifice a l'age des Lumieres
Sur une serie d'exemples, l'auteur examine le langage et les arguments qui furent employes, au 17e et au 18e siecle, dans la critique des conduites masquees et des conventions de societe
Eloquence and Liberty
This essay intends to study, in the works of eighteenth-century French writers, the occurrence of an idea borrowed from Tacitus' Dialogue1 and from the last chapter of Pseudo-Longinus' treatise On Sublimity2: eloquence, in order to develop all its powers, needs freedom and even civic disorders; when freedom disappears, eloquence degenerates accordingly. In Tacitus' Dialogue, this idea is expounded in the final speech of Maternus, but Maternus doe…
The Word Reaction: From Physics to Psychiatry
Reagere, reactio does not belong to classical Latin. Reagere appears, as late as the fourth century A.D., in Avienus, but not reactio. Nonetheless, antiquity was not unaware of the concept of reciprocal action, where the "patient" reacts in return on the agent. The Aristotelian doctrine of antiperistasis occupied physicists up until the time of Galileo: "All movers, as long as they move, are at the same time moved." The Latin authors dispense wit…
Une leçon de flûte
Starobinski Jean. Une leçon de flûte. In: Langue française, n°23, 1974. Poétique du vers français. pp. 99-107
The Struggle with Legion: A Literary Analysis of Mark 5: 1-20
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, even with a chain; 4for he had often been bound with fetters and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the fetters he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the to…
The Illness of Rousseau
The Idea of Nostalgia
In tracing the history of emotions and of mentalities, one is immediately confronted with a question of method resulting from the interplay of emotions and language.The emotions whose history we wish to retrace are accessible to us only from the time when they find expression, verbally or by other means. For the critic, for the historian, an emotion exists only beyond the point at which it attains a linguistic status. No facet of an emotion can b…
Reflections on Some Symbols of The Revolution
La relation critique
Sur les conditions de travail de la sociologie littéraire
Le « sociologisme vulgaire » ne trouve plus guere de defenseurs : rares sont ceux qui persistent a voir dans les productions de la culture un simple reflet du milieu et du moment. La societe, par rapport a l’œuvre, est a bien des egards beaucoup plus englobante que ne le laisse supposer la seule theorie de la « superstructure » : la societe n’est pas seulement presente au niveau des origines de l’œuvre, elle est presente au niveau de ses destinat…
Types of Resistance to Freud
Considerations on the Present State of Literary Criticism
Let us begin by taking a look at the semantic background: the word criticism designated an action implying judgment and discrimination based on standardized poetics or on preferred taste. By virtue of implicit or explicit criteria, the principal task of criticism-of things either beautiful or otherwise-was to make a distinction, to disapprove or to praise. If one refers to French dictionaries (from the 17th century onwards), one can see that the …
The Game of the Name
Poetry as Interpretation: Jouve's Don Giovanni
The Struggle with Legion: A Literary Analysis of Mark 5: 1-20
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, even with a chain; 4for he had often been bound with fetters and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the fetters he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the to…
Une leçon de flûte
Starobinski Jean. Une leçon de flûte. In: Langue française, n°23, 1974. Poétique du vers français. pp. 99-107
On the Fundamental Gestures of Criticism
entiation when works coexist not only with a public which receives them, but with qualified representatives of this public, who are the first to express what others feel less clearly. It is then that we witness the emergence of specifically critical texts, forming a class of their own, constituting a distinct genre (and demanding in turn the specialized attention of the historian). But this division of labor, this clear-cut distinction between cr…
The Critical Tautology
The Meaning of Literary History
S THE historian's activity entirely retrospective? It is true that the object of his preoccupation indubitably belongs to the past. But his project is rooted in the here-and-now: in his personal life, the historian precedes the history he will write. If he turns to already existing documents and works, it is with the intention of creating a new work which tomorrow will itself become a document. Moreover, this project, especially if it pertains to…
The Word Reaction: From Physics to Psychiatry
Reagere, reactio does not belong to classical Latin. Reagere appears, as late as the fourth century A.D., in Avienus, but not reactio. Nonetheless, antiquity was not unaware of the concept of reciprocal action, where the "patient" reacts in return on the agent. The Aristotelian doctrine of antiperistasis occupied physicists up until the time of Galileo: "All movers, as long as they move, are at the same time moved." The Latin authors dispense wit…
Poetic Language and Scientific Language
It was a tenacious dream: the first language spoken by man was music, poetry and science, all at the same time. In the beginning the same word, given by God or dictated by Nature, stood for things, feelings and laws. And in the cherished image of this dawning faculty not only had the distinction between word and song, the difference between expressive power and objective designational power (or "referential function," as the linguists say) not ye…
Eloquence and Liberty
This essay intends to study, in the works of eighteenth-century French writers, the occurrence of an idea borrowed from Tacitus' Dialogue1 and from the last chapter of Pseudo-Longinus' treatise On Sublimity2: eloquence, in order to develop all its powers, needs freedom and even civic disorders; when freedom disappears, eloquence degenerates accordingly. In Tacitus' Dialogue, this idea is expounded in the final speech of Maternus, but Maternus doe…
Rousseau's Happy Days
R OUSSEAU'S ACCOUNT of the days spent on the island of St. Pierre is the central part of the fifth Reverie. One might almost risk saying that the description of these days occupies in the text the same place Rousseau attributes to the geographical setting of the island: the center of this beautiful, almost circular basin are two small islands. Everything harmonizes and is echoed: a circular, regularly edged scene, a form of happiness consisting o…
Un livre étranger
"To Preserve and To Continue" Remarks On Montaigne's Conservatism
This is how Montaigne explains the principles which he followed in his role as mayor, a statement whose very expression casts all the light needed on the nature of what has been called Montaigne's conservatism. In Montaigne's political language, to conserve is defined by its opposition to innovate. Conservation receives its lexical "value" from its contrasting relation with innovation and with "novelties." This semantic pair, common in sixteenth-…
Après Montaigne. Réflexion sur la modernité
The Body's Moment
Don fastueux et don pervers. Commentaire historique d'une Rêverie de Rousseau
Une page de la neuvième Rêverie de Rousseau ne cesse de me requérir. Rousseau évoque le souvenir d'une fête donnée à La Chevrette chez M. et Mme d'Épinay. Dans le parc devenu champ de foire, un jeune homme s'avise de jeter des pains d'épices à la volée : des ' troupeaux ' de jeunes paysans se les disputent ' brutalement '. ' Tout le monde ', c'est-à-dire toute la ' bonne compagnie ', imite le geste du jeune homme. Rousseau lui-même se met de la p…
Acheronta Movebo
Présence des classiques
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