{"title":"Editor's Preface: Nineteenth-Century \"postcolonialités\" at the Bicentennial of the Haitian Independence","authors":"D. Jenson","doi":"10.2307/4149309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4149309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4149309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69356194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Monotonies of History\": Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's \"Haitian Trilogy\"","authors":"Chris Bongie","doi":"10.2307/4149312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4149312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4149312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69356210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean Paulhan and the \"Nouvelle revue francaise\": Literature, Politics, and the Power of Creative Editorship","authors":"M. Cornick","doi":"10.2307/3655213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3655213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3655213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68859170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy Calls on the First Comer","authors":"Jean Paulhan, J. Bajorek","doi":"10.2307/3655224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3655224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3655224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68859379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The scholarly literature on Levinas and Descartes is surprisingly sparse, given Levinas's bold claims in Totality and Infinity that he is drawing on a number of profound Cartesian insights. Some attention has been given to Levinas's use of Descartes's conception of infinity and some to his use of Descartes's evil genius in arguing for a goodness beyond being. My focus in this essay, however, is on Levinas's appropriation of Descartes's philosophy in order to argue for a separable, independent subject. Levinas's claim about ethics rests upon his elucidation of the subject of ethics, the "I" who is uniquely responsible. It is the separate, independent, indeed atheistic self that he means to affirm in Totality and Infinity. Despite his arguments about the inability of philosophy to grasp the face of the other, Levinas's project is nothing short of a defense of the modern philosophical project-and the modern subject in particular-after Heidegger. If postmodern philosophy takes as its villain the subject of Descartes's cogito, the reading of Levinas presented in this essay calls into question the view of Levinas as a "postmodern" thinker. I argue in what follows that Levinas's phenomenological description of the subject in Totality and Infinity, and also in Otherwise than Being, bears its greatest debt to Descartes. Levinas in fact presents his readers with an ethical encounter with Descartes's modern subject-an encounter that he claims is already present in Descartes. Yet surely, one would quickly reply, Levinas's subject is not Des-
{"title":"Encountering the modern subject in Levinas","authors":"Leora Batnitzky","doi":"10.2307/3182502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3182502","url":null,"abstract":"The scholarly literature on Levinas and Descartes is surprisingly sparse, given Levinas's bold claims in Totality and Infinity that he is drawing on a number of profound Cartesian insights. Some attention has been given to Levinas's use of Descartes's conception of infinity and some to his use of Descartes's evil genius in arguing for a goodness beyond being. My focus in this essay, however, is on Levinas's appropriation of Descartes's philosophy in order to argue for a separable, independent subject. Levinas's claim about ethics rests upon his elucidation of the subject of ethics, the \"I\" who is uniquely responsible. It is the separate, independent, indeed atheistic self that he means to affirm in Totality and Infinity. Despite his arguments about the inability of philosophy to grasp the face of the other, Levinas's project is nothing short of a defense of the modern philosophical project-and the modern subject in particular-after Heidegger. If postmodern philosophy takes as its villain the subject of Descartes's cogito, the reading of Levinas presented in this essay calls into question the view of Levinas as a \"postmodern\" thinker. I argue in what follows that Levinas's phenomenological description of the subject in Totality and Infinity, and also in Otherwise than Being, bears its greatest debt to Descartes. Levinas in fact presents his readers with an ethical encounter with Descartes's modern subject-an encounter that he claims is already present in Descartes. Yet surely, one would quickly reply, Levinas's subject is not Des-","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3182502","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68991764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is through misunderstanding or misjudgment that some people consider me a disciple or inheritor of Levinas's work. To be sure, there are some troubling similarities between our texts, notably in the use of words-similarities whose coherence I cannot always locate in Levinas's work as a whole, and which at times appear to me like grafts rather than natural outgrowths of his argumentation, of his language. This makes them barely intelligible to me, not for reasons of difficulty, I believe, but due to the temporal unfolding of his discourse. It is as though to an initial statement had later been added comments or clarifications or, indeed, corrections that are not easily integrated and would require moving to another stage of thought. This problem is perhaps particularly crucial in Time and the Other, a collection of lectures given in 1946 and 1947 and published by Fata Morgana in 1979. Although the preface asserts that this collection "reproduces the stenographic record" of the lectures and that the "spoken ... style of this writing will surely be, for many, abrupt or awkward in certain turns of phrase" (TO, 29 -30), I would point out that the preface also introduces the texts in terms rather different from those figuring in the body of the chapters, notably with regard to points that interest me and that I address in this essay. But I also find these rifts in the argument even within the volume, indeed within a single lecture. And I wonder what makes them possible, or justifies them philosophically. Be that as it may, I have approached the question of the other along an entirely different path. And although our culture would certainly have benefited from a dialogue between our two perspectives, masculine and feminine, it stands only to lose from their assimilation. The real of the other as other would again be annulled, submerged in a single discourse-a discourse that remains egocentric and monological
{"title":"What Other Are We Talking About","authors":"L. Irigaray, Esther Marion","doi":"10.2307/3182505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3182505","url":null,"abstract":"It is through misunderstanding or misjudgment that some people consider me a disciple or inheritor of Levinas's work. To be sure, there are some troubling similarities between our texts, notably in the use of words-similarities whose coherence I cannot always locate in Levinas's work as a whole, and which at times appear to me like grafts rather than natural outgrowths of his argumentation, of his language. This makes them barely intelligible to me, not for reasons of difficulty, I believe, but due to the temporal unfolding of his discourse. It is as though to an initial statement had later been added comments or clarifications or, indeed, corrections that are not easily integrated and would require moving to another stage of thought. This problem is perhaps particularly crucial in Time and the Other, a collection of lectures given in 1946 and 1947 and published by Fata Morgana in 1979. Although the preface asserts that this collection \"reproduces the stenographic record\" of the lectures and that the \"spoken ... style of this writing will surely be, for many, abrupt or awkward in certain turns of phrase\" (TO, 29 -30), I would point out that the preface also introduces the texts in terms rather different from those figuring in the body of the chapters, notably with regard to points that interest me and that I address in this essay. But I also find these rifts in the argument even within the volume, indeed within a single lecture. And I wonder what makes them possible, or justifies them philosophically. Be that as it may, I have approached the question of the other along an entirely different path. And although our culture would certainly have benefited from a dialogue between our two perspectives, masculine and feminine, it stands only to lose from their assimilation. The real of the other as other would again be annulled, submerged in a single discourse-a discourse that remains egocentric and monological","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3182505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68991837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors' Preface: On Reading Georges Perec","authors":"W. Motte, J. Poucel","doi":"10.2307/3182512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3182512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3182512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68992040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Levinas's other and the culture of the copy","authors":"E. Wyschogrod","doi":"10.2307/3182508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3182508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3182508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68991987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The Double Necessity of Criticism and Self-Effacement: Paulhan and Fénéon Brigitte Ouvry-Vial
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This study is motivated by the desire to understand Levinas at his most difficult. This desire explains the choice of Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence as the almost exclusive guide to my reading. The greatest gamble undertaken by this book is that of linking the fate of the relation to be established between the ethics of responsibility and ontology to the fate of their respective languages: Saying on the side of ethics, the said on the side of ontology.2 It is a bold gamble to the extent that what binds each of these disciplines to its own manner of signifying brings to the fore two difficulties generated by this new way of philosophizing: on the one hand, the difficulty, for ethics, of freeing itself from its ceaseless confrontation with ontology; on the other, the difficulty of finding for the ex-ception that disrupts the system of being, the language appropriate to it, its own language, the said of its Saying. These difficulties are inseparable and are condensed in the word, the adverb otherwise, otherwise than. ... It is, indeed, always necessary to tear oneself away, through the otherwise than . ., from the very thing whose reign one attempts to suspend or interrupt; but at the same time, some linguistic articulation must be ventured for that in the name of which one is conscripted and assured of being able, of having, to pronounce the anteriority of the ethics of responsibility with respect to the "rhythm [train] of being, the rhythm of essence" (though a note on the
{"title":"Otherwise: A reading of Emmanuel Levinas's otherwise than being or beyond essence","authors":"P. Ricoeur, M. Escobar","doi":"10.2307/3182506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3182506","url":null,"abstract":"This study is motivated by the desire to understand Levinas at his most difficult. This desire explains the choice of Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence as the almost exclusive guide to my reading. The greatest gamble undertaken by this book is that of linking the fate of the relation to be established between the ethics of responsibility and ontology to the fate of their respective languages: Saying on the side of ethics, the said on the side of ontology.2 It is a bold gamble to the extent that what binds each of these disciplines to its own manner of signifying brings to the fore two difficulties generated by this new way of philosophizing: on the one hand, the difficulty, for ethics, of freeing itself from its ceaseless confrontation with ontology; on the other, the difficulty of finding for the ex-ception that disrupts the system of being, the language appropriate to it, its own language, the said of its Saying. These difficulties are inseparable and are condensed in the word, the adverb otherwise, otherwise than. ... It is, indeed, always necessary to tear oneself away, through the otherwise than . ., from the very thing whose reign one attempts to suspend or interrupt; but at the same time, some linguistic articulation must be ventured for that in the name of which one is conscripted and assured of being able, of having, to pronounce the anteriority of the ethics of responsibility with respect to the \"rhythm [train] of being, the rhythm of essence\" (though a note on the","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3182506","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68991879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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