Michel Imbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3774789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michel Imbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michel |
| FAMILY NAME | Imbert |
| SIGNATURE | IMBERT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Cité |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Simultaneous Scales, Incommensurate Standards in Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Pierre Glendinning, en prétendant réparer la faute de son père, s’intitule Archange et se mesure au Dieu caché. Il se sent justifié par l’opuscule de Plotinus Plinlimmon qui, tout en soulignant l’écart entre la relativité des valeurs humaines et l’absolu de la justice divine, aussi éloignées que l’heure locale peut l’être du temps universel, postule que les premières n’ont de sens que mesurées à l’aune d’un seul et unique étalon de mesure, le mér…
“Train-haunted” Trains of Thoughts on the American Scene
This article deals with the observations on The American Scene made by Henry James from a Pullman train. It is described as a juxtaposition of odd sections or segments that are solely unified by the continuity of James’s rambling consciousness. But when the mindscape before his eyes is changed into a huge hall of machines, it evinces another view of subjectivity. The prospect comes to look like the objectification of impersonal mental mechanisms …
L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville
In The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the pursuit of truth emerges as an endless self-cancelling process, resting ultimately on the will to believe, thus heralding Charles S. Peirce’s and William James’s insights. The final scene, the would-be moment of truth, brings confusion to a climax by pointing to baffling paradoxes such as the potential advent of the Savior under the guise of a crook. The paradoxes inherent in such a dubious revelation…
Le tracé extravagant des cartes dans Moby-Dick et Walden
Cet article s'intéresse à la manière dont Melville et Thoreau font œuvre de cartographe dans Moby-Dick (1851) et Walden (1854). Michel Imbert commente plus particulièrement les chapitres du roman de Melville où il est nommément question de cartes : la carte de Nantucket, tout comme les cartes nautiques que le capitaine Achab scrute pour fixer le cap, sont le signe révélateur de la puissance et de la précarité du rêve d'empire. La folie y transpar…
The Education of Henry Adams ou la chronique du chaos
The Education of Henry Adams unsettles the assumptions of scientific historicism by registering the irruption of chaotic forces. And yet a sense of historical continuity is restored by yoking together medieval faith with present-day technology
Fluctuations in Life on the Mississippi
In the course of Life on the Mississippi, the evocation of the storied river drifts to the exploration of the undercurrents of the mind. By plunging the writer into the flow of memories, the free play of mental associations stirs up troubled waters and sets them ablaze
Adultérations
Adulterations : crossdressing over the racial line in Othello The Elizabethan convention of cross-dressing and the American Victorian burlesque which exploited ‘black face’ both represent travesties. This essay explores the ways in which these artifices, whether sexual or racial, reduce actual representation to interchangeable theatre practices, a parade of masks that calls representation itself into question. It considers whether these two analo…
The alchemical marriage in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville ou le discrédit des signes
La vision naturelle. Le traitement neuronal de l'information visuelle
À propos du rapport sur les sciences cognitives
Neurosciences et sciences cognitives
L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville
In The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the pursuit of truth emerges as an endless self-cancelling process, resting ultimately on the will to believe, thus heralding Charles S. Peirce’s and William James’s insights. The final scene, the would-be moment of truth, brings confusion to a climax by pointing to baffling paradoxes such as the potential advent of the Savior under the guise of a crook. The paradoxes inherent in such a dubious revelation…
Neurosciences et sciences cognitives
La vision naturelle. Le traitement neuronal de l'information visuelle
À propos du rapport sur les sciences cognitives
The alchemical marriage in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville ou le discrédit des signes
Adultérations
Adulterations : crossdressing over the racial line in Othello The Elizabethan convention of cross-dressing and the American Victorian burlesque which exploited ‘black face’ both represent travesties. This essay explores the ways in which these artifices, whether sexual or racial, reduce actual representation to interchangeable theatre practices, a parade of masks that calls representation itself into question. It considers whether these two analo…
Fluctuations in Life on the Mississippi
In the course of Life on the Mississippi, the evocation of the storied river drifts to the exploration of the undercurrents of the mind. By plunging the writer into the flow of memories, the free play of mental associations stirs up troubled waters and sets them ablaze
The Education of Henry Adams ou la chronique du chaos
The Education of Henry Adams unsettles the assumptions of scientific historicism by registering the irruption of chaotic forces. And yet a sense of historical continuity is restored by yoking together medieval faith with present-day technology
Le tracé extravagant des cartes dans Moby-Dick et Walden
Cet article s'intéresse à la manière dont Melville et Thoreau font œuvre de cartographe dans Moby-Dick (1851) et Walden (1854). Michel Imbert commente plus particulièrement les chapitres du roman de Melville où il est nommément question de cartes : la carte de Nantucket, tout comme les cartes nautiques que le capitaine Achab scrute pour fixer le cap, sont le signe révélateur de la puissance et de la précarité du rêve d'empire. La folie y transpar…
L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville
In The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the pursuit of truth emerges as an endless self-cancelling process, resting ultimately on the will to believe, thus heralding Charles S. Peirce’s and William James’s insights. The final scene, the would-be moment of truth, brings confusion to a climax by pointing to baffling paradoxes such as the potential advent of the Savior under the guise of a crook. The paradoxes inherent in such a dubious revelation…
“Train-haunted” Trains of Thoughts on the American Scene
This article deals with the observations on The American Scene made by Henry James from a Pullman train. It is described as a juxtaposition of odd sections or segments that are solely unified by the continuity of James’s rambling consciousness. But when the mindscape before his eyes is changed into a huge hall of machines, it evinces another view of subjectivity. The prospect comes to look like the objectification of impersonal mental mechanisms …
Simultaneous Scales, Incommensurate Standards in Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Pierre Glendinning, en prétendant réparer la faute de son père, s’intitule Archange et se mesure au Dieu caché. Il se sent justifié par l’opuscule de Plotinus Plinlimmon qui, tout en soulignant l’écart entre la relativité des valeurs humaines et l’absolu de la justice divine, aussi éloignées que l’heure locale peut l’être du temps universel, postule que les premières n’ont de sens que mesurées à l’aune d’un seul et unique étalon de mesure, le mér…
Philosophy (7 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)