Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy : Chance and Choice

Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Pierre Saint-Amand, Natasha Lee and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication CONTENTS FIGURES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I NTRODUCTION Errant Knights and Bedazzled Philosophers Passages The Risks of Modernity Two Rebellious Philosophies New Worlds Associations of Ideas Encounters in Literature, Philosophy and the Arts An Addendum Which is Also on How to Meet Anew Notes Chapter 1 ENCOUNTERING THE DIVINE: ON THE COGNITION OF GOD IN EARLY FRENCH CHRISTIAN HUMANISM Notes Chapter 2 EVENT AND INVENTION: READING MONTAIGNE AND ROUSSEAU THROUGH DELEUZE Notes Chapter 3 ENCOUNTERING VENTURE: DISSONANCE, DECEIT, AUTOBIOGRAPHY “A very pretty voice” Vicissitudes of the charivari Airs of Dissonance Notes Chapter 4 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS OF “LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE” Villeneuve’s Sea Tale Beaumont’s Imperial Education Notes Chapter 5 MISSED CONNECTIONS: LITERARY HISTORY AND SAINT-AUBIN’S LE DANGER DES LIAISONS Notes Chapter 6 REJECTED ENCOUNTERS WITH WOMEN WRITERS: THE CASE OF LES PENSÉES ERRANTES Reading Les Pensées errantes Reading as Encountering Reading Women Writers Rereading Les Pensées errantes Notes Chapter 7 ENCOUNTERING WOMEN WRITERS AND THEIR TEXTS: LOUISE DE KERALIO’S PIONEERING ANTHOLOGY Notes Chapter 8 CHÂTELET, LAVOISIER, CHARRIÈRE: NEGOTIATING THE BORDERLANDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Émilie du Châtelet Lavoisier Charrière Notes Chapter 9 WOMEN’S FICTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS IN SUPPORT OF ENLIGHTENMENT VALUES Notes Chapter 10 STOWE MEETS THOMAS: WHAT IS LITERARY PROPERTY?* Notes Chapter 11 FORM ENCOUNTERS SENSE: THE SEMIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF WAGNERIAN ANTI-SEMITISM Notes Chapter 12 “UN AUTRE MOI-MêME”: BETWEEN THE SELF AND THE OTHER IN PROUST’S CORRESPONDENCE1 Another Myself Particularity, Reciprocity, Possibility “Writing to myself” Self-Readers Notes Chapter 13 EKPHRASING AS ENCOUNTER: “TRY SAY” WITH GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN AND HÉLÈNE CIXOUS Deconstruction and the “arts of the visible” Didi-Huberman: Try Say See Cixous: “Seeing with the Tongue” Notes Chapter 14 CARING FOR ENCOUNTERS Notes Chapter 15 PRIVATE LIVES, PUBLIC H ISTORY: ENCOUNTERING THE FILMMAKER ISTVÁN SZABÓ Notes Chapter 16 CREATION AND RE-CREATION ACROSS CULTURES AND DISCIPLINES: TAHITIAN ENCOUNTERS FROM BOUGAINVILLE TO GAUGUIN AND BEYOND Bougainville Encounters Tahiti Loving Tahiti Gauguin Encounters Tahiti Notes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX "Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches"-- Provided by publisher Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jerome Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology, and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century, while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches Encountering the divine : on the cognition of God in early French Christian humanism / Jacob Vance -- Châtelet, Lavoisier, Charrière : negotiating the borderlands of the Republic of Letters / Ian Van Wye -- Ekphrasing as encounter : "try say" with Georges Didi-Huberman and Hélène Cixous / Ginette Michaud