Revisiting Plozévet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12244791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Forsdick (0000-0001-7470-8421, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 345-359 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957155818794150 |
| OpenAlex | W4234055492 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 13 |
A special issue of French Cultural Studies in 1999 sought to explore the ways in which Modern Linguists have often tended to erase traces of their personal lives from their work. Contributors responded in an autobiographical mode by exploring the ‘hidden selves of scholars and teachers’. This article builds on these reflections by exploring the extent to which Edgar Morin’s Commune en France (1967), his contribution to the multidisciplinary project in Plozévet in Brittany, may be understood as ‘autobiographie involontaire’. The study reads Morin’s Journal de Plozévet (published in 2001, over three decades after the research was completed) in relation to the original monograph and suggests that the diary operates as the second panel of a diptych that reveals the texts’ interdependence. The journal fulfils a ‘genetic’ function, providing the sources for elements of Morin’s monograph and giving an indication of the extent to which Morin drew on the work of his wider team to complement his own observations. More importantly, however, reading the two texts in counterpoint – the one providing spontaneous reflections in the field; the other revealing their processing in the immediate aftermath of the enquête – is part of the revelation of the ‘hidden selves’ of a researcher embedded in a monograph that has been long considered a classic of post-war French sociology
Art · Counterpoint · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Morin · Pedagogy · Reading (process · Relation (database · Revelation · Sociology · French Language Learning Methods · History · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy
Fast cars, clean bodies
Popular Culture in Modern France
“I Felt Like My Life Had Been Given to Me to Start Over”
The notion of 'the anthropological' in Morin's cultural analysis
Plonger dans un milieu réel
The hidden selves of scholars and teachers
Le regard de l’étranger
Plozévet, une mystique de l'interdisciplinarité
| Highly cited | No |
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