Richard Scholar
Biographic Data
| ID | 969956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Scholar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholar |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0371-7977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Les caprices de Pascal
Cet article propose l’étude de certains usages du mot « caprice » chez Pascal afin de comprendre leur place dans l’émergence du caprice au dix-septième siècle français comme catégorie de pensée ainsi que comme mode esthétique. Sur le plan du comportement social, ce terme possède une valeur sémantique négative, car il désigne ce que Furetière en 1690 appelle un « dérèglement d’esprit » qui se produit quand « on se laisse emporter à l'humeur domina…
Luke O’Sullivan, Writing Doubt in Montaigne’s ‘Essais’: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch
Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France
Inventing Utopia in early modern France often meant translating the text. The intensity with which Utopia was translated in early modern France is unprecedented elsewhere. Three French versions appeared in the second half of the sixteenth century alone. These and other early French translations invariably brought More’s text across marked boundaries—of political geography, confessional allegiance, and genre—and relocated it in new settings. At ti…
Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: Reading More with Marin
Louis Marin views Utopia as the organization of space in a discourse that finds its expression in specific texts from More's onwards. He argues that More's text contains non-congruent spaces - internal gaps and fissures in the geography of Utopia unwittingly betrayed by the description of More's traveller - and that these point to places of argument awaiting an as-yet unformulated theory of society in an era of capitalism. It is here suggested th…
Émigrés: French Words That Turned English
An early modern keyword in migration: The case of caprice
Даремский университет (Великобритания, Дарем
Aesthetics: Ancients and Moderns
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Montaigne et la « vanité» des utopies
Cet article étudie la contribution de Montaigne au débat qui a lieu au XVIesiècle sur l'utopie comme forme de réflexion en sciences politiques. Nous montrons qu'il s'agit d'un apport à la fois important et marginal, dans la mesure où l'auteur desEssaisreste visiblement en retrait du débat, ainsi que d'autres controverses politiques. C'est précisément le lieu de retrait qu'il invente qui nous intéressera surtout ici. Notre hypothèse est qu'il s'ag…
Two Cheers for Free-Thinking
The phrase around which this number of Paragraph has been organized 'theory and the early modern' opens up a set of questions, creates a certain productive friction, by implying that its two terms may be defined by their mutual opposition. Theory, whatever else it does, sets itself the task of formulating overarching propositions about texts in general; the early modern teems with historically embedded texts that are notable, among other things, …
The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something
What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How - if at all - can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to…
Je Ne Sais Quelle Grâce’: Esther Before Assuerus
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Scholar, R. (2002). ''Je ne sais quelle grâce': Esther before Assuerus', French Studies 56(3), 317-327. [The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/]
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Je Ne Sais Quelle Grâce’: Esther Before Assuerus
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Scholar, R. (2002). ''Je ne sais quelle grâce': Esther before Assuerus', French Studies 56(3), 317-327. [The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/]
The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something
What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How - if at all - can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its 'pre-history'. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to…
Two Cheers for Free-Thinking
The phrase around which this number of Paragraph has been organized 'theory and the early modern' opens up a set of questions, creates a certain productive friction, by implying that its two terms may be defined by their mutual opposition. Theory, whatever else it does, sets itself the task of formulating overarching propositions about texts in general; the early modern teems with historically embedded texts that are notable, among other things, …
Montaigne et la « vanité» des utopies
Cet article étudie la contribution de Montaigne au débat qui a lieu au XVIesiècle sur l'utopie comme forme de réflexion en sciences politiques. Nous montrons qu'il s'agit d'un apport à la fois important et marginal, dans la mesure où l'auteur desEssaisreste visiblement en retrait du débat, ainsi que d'autres controverses politiques. C'est précisément le lieu de retrait qu'il invente qui nous intéressera surtout ici. Notre hypothèse est qu'il s'ag…
Aesthetics: Ancients and Moderns
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Émigrés: French Words That Turned English
An early modern keyword in migration: The case of caprice
Даремский университет (Великобритания, Дарем
Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France
Inventing Utopia in early modern France often meant translating the text. The intensity with which Utopia was translated in early modern France is unprecedented elsewhere. Three French versions appeared in the second half of the sixteenth century alone. These and other early French translations invariably brought More’s text across marked boundaries—of political geography, confessional allegiance, and genre—and relocated it in new settings. At ti…
Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: Reading More with Marin
Louis Marin views Utopia as the organization of space in a discourse that finds its expression in specific texts from More's onwards. He argues that More's text contains non-congruent spaces - internal gaps and fissures in the geography of Utopia unwittingly betrayed by the description of More's traveller - and that these point to places of argument awaiting an as-yet unformulated theory of society in an era of capitalism. It is here suggested th…
Les caprices de Pascal
Cet article propose l’étude de certains usages du mot « caprice » chez Pascal afin de comprendre leur place dans l’émergence du caprice au dix-septième siècle français comme catégorie de pensée ainsi que comme mode esthétique. Sur le plan du comportement social, ce terme possède une valeur sémantique négative, car il désigne ce que Furetière en 1690 appelle un « dérèglement d’esprit » qui se produit quand « on se laisse emporter à l'humeur domina…
Luke O’Sullivan, Writing Doubt in Montaigne’s ‘Essais’: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch
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