Anecdote, pensée et autothéorie chez Barbara Cassin et Maggie Nelson
This article looks at the place of personal anecdotes in Barbara Cassin's Le bonheur, sa dent douce à la mort (2020) and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015). In these two texts, the anecdotes allow us to study in miniature the way in which, for these authors, thought emanates from life. W...
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| Language: | fra |
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Pléiade (EA 7338)
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Itinéraires |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/15508 |
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| Summary: | This article looks at the place of personal anecdotes in Barbara Cassin's Le bonheur, sa dent douce à la mort (2020) and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015). In these two texts, the anecdotes allow us to study in miniature the way in which, for these authors, thought emanates from life. We begin by examining the genealogy and characteristics of this type of “autotheoretical” writing. Then, after briefly defining the anecdote and the values and imagination it conveys as a small secondary narrative in the life of an individual, we present three types of anecdote (memorable word, case, notation), how they function and the discursive decompartmentalizing effect they produce. Finally, we characterize the nature of the thought that emerges from these texts, defending the hypothesis that it is a thought charged with affect, stylized and, for this very reason, more transmissible and sharable. |
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| ISSN: | 2427-920X |