As the millenium closes and a new one opens, the question of the changing boundaries between privacy and public morality has become an area of intense controversy. My purpose in what follows is to explore briefly the ways in which certain twentieth-century arguments about sexuality and pornography looks to the French Enlightenment for explanation and support, and how the different attitudes toward these issues in France and America focus on the relationship between freedom and equality. I am interested in the ways biopolitics, as a touchstone for expressing social and political malaise, can be argued as either liberating or harmful. My hypothesis is that the focus on sexual scandal, as it is transmitted through the media, both translates and fosters the uncertainty surrounding ethics in the sociopolitical sphere, in particular, the connection between the personal and the political for women as well as for men has been caught between an increasingly invaded private realm and a contested public morality. This has led to a mythification of national differences that stymies rather than furthers discussion among public intellectuals on the question of individual and social responsibility and on the kinds of interpretation necessary to meet the demand of the future
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L'A. se penche sur les relations entre les Etats-Unis et la France et plus particulierement sur l'etrange impermeabilite entre les deux cultures. Elle prend des exemples de Tocqueville, Aron et Baudrillard et demontre comment chacun de ces theoriciens arrive au meme paradigme : les Francais pronent la theorie et l'intellect tandis que les Americains sont pragmatiques et concrets
{"title":"Terre à terre: Tocqueville, Aron, Baudrillard, and the American way of life","authors":"S. Weiner","doi":"10.2307/3090579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090579","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. se penche sur les relations entre les Etats-Unis et la France et plus particulierement sur l'etrange impermeabilite entre les deux cultures. Elle prend des exemples de Tocqueville, Aron et Baudrillard et demontre comment chacun de ces theoriciens arrive au meme paradigme : les Francais pronent la theorie et l'intellect tandis que les Americains sont pragmatiques et concrets","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738760","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":"From Rebut to Rebus","authors":"T. Conley","doi":"10.2307/2903241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2903241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2903241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68446896","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}
L'A. se penche sur l'affaire Sokal et l'interprete a la lumiere de deux genres litteraires, le canard (comme dans Illusions perdues de Balzac) et le sottisier (comme dans Dictionnaire des idees recues de Flaubert). Le debat sur le relativisme, la relation entre la recherche scientifique et la theorie litteraire et les implications plus larges constituent pour l'A. une mauvaise interpretation du developpement intellectuel francais depuis la deuxieme Guerre mondiale
{"title":"Text, Context: Transatlantic Sokal","authors":"D. F. Bell","doi":"10.2307/3090580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090580","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. se penche sur l'affaire Sokal et l'interprete a la lumiere de deux genres litteraires, le canard (comme dans Illusions perdues de Balzac) et le sottisier (comme dans Dictionnaire des idees recues de Flaubert). Le debat sur le relativisme, la relation entre la recherche scientifique et la theorie litteraire et les implications plus larges constituent pour l'A. une mauvaise interpretation du developpement intellectuel francais depuis la deuxieme Guerre mondiale","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738780","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":"Revolutionary sons, white fathers, and creole difference: Guillaume Guillon-Lethière's Oath of the Ancestors (1822)","authors":"D. Grigsby","doi":"10.2307/3090614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090614","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738804","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":"Personals and politics: Courting la citoyenne in Le courier de l'hymen","authors":"J. Jones","doi":"10.2307/3090612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739279","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":"Dialogues and Differend","authors":"M. Deguy, Robert Harvey","doi":"10.2307/2903245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2903245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2903245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68446977","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":"Editor's Preface: Just How Wide Is the Atlantic Anyway?","authors":"R. Sarkonak","doi":"10.2307/3090578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738749","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}
L'A. tente de prouver a quel point l'universalisme francais moderne resulte de la convergence de trois courants differents : religieux, linguistique et ethique. Selon elle, la culture francaise oppose les defenseurs de la Republique et les partisans du multiculturalisme francais et de la democratie. Ce debat franco-francais a amene a la lumiere du jour le paradoxe central de l'universalisme francais ; ce meme universalisme qui s'est engage a defendre les droits de l'homme est denonce pour legitimer l'oppression et masquer les inegalites
{"title":"The crisis of French universalism","authors":"N. Schor","doi":"10.2307/3090581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090581","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. tente de prouver a quel point l'universalisme francais moderne resulte de la convergence de trois courants differents : religieux, linguistique et ethique. Selon elle, la culture francaise oppose les defenseurs de la Republique et les partisans du multiculturalisme francais et de la democratie. Ce debat franco-francais a amene a la lumiere du jour le paradoxe central de l'universalisme francais ; ce meme universalisme qui s'est engage a defendre les droits de l'homme est denonce pour legitimer l'oppression et masquer les inegalites","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738790","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":"Veduta on \"Discours, figure\"","authors":"M. Lydon","doi":"10.2307/2903240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2903240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2903240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68446854","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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