L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11802498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Imbert (Université Paris Cité, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 133 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 8-23 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue française d’études américaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0397-7870 • E-ISSN: 1776-3061 |
| Publisher | Éditions Belin (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3917/rfea.133.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W1581882379 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
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 call into question the usual definition of truth in terms of logical consistency and adequacy to facts
Confusion · Consistency (knowledge bases · Epistemology · Humanities · Psychoanalysis · Revelation · Theology · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |