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Trois fureurs
Jean Starobinski interroge trois figures exemplaires de la folie. Remontant à des documents capitaux, il met en évidence ce qui nous fascine et nous terrorise dans l'aliénation. L'enjeu n'est pas esthétique : il y va de notre principal pouvoir, celui que nous exerçons sur nos actes, et que dissout la fureur. Trois textes sont lus au plus près : l'Ajax de Sophocle ; le récit de l'Évangile de Marc qui relate l'exorcisme du démoniaque de Gerasa par le Christ ; une oeuvre picturale enfin, le Cauchemar de J.H. Füssli, où l'apparition de l'incube provoque l'effet d'étrangeté inquiétante. Jean Starobinski met en oeuvre son savoir d'historien, de médecin, de critique et se donne tout entier à l'écoute des textes et de leurs relations internes.
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176 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 1974
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Jean Starobinski
135 books41 followersJean Starobinski studied classical literature, and then medicine at the University of Geneva, and graduated from that school with a doctorate in letters (docteur ès lettres) and in medicine. He taught French literature at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Basel and at the University of Geneva, where he also taught courses in the history of ideas and the history of medicine.
His existential and phenomenological literary criticism is sometimes grouped with the so-called "Geneva School". He has written landmark works on French literature of the 18th century – including works on the writers Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Voltaire – and also on authors of other periods (such as Michel de Montaigne). He has also written on contemporary poetry, art, and the problems of interpretation. His books have been translated in dozens of languages.
His knowledge of medicine and psychiatry brought him to study the history of melancholia (notably in the Trois Fureurs, 1974). He was the first scholar to publish work (in 1964) on Ferdinand de Saussure's study of anagrams.
Jean Starobinski is a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (a component of the Institut de France) and other French, European and American learned academies. He has honorary degrees (honoris causa) from numerous universities in Europe and America.
His existential and phenomenological literary criticism is sometimes grouped with the so-called "Geneva School". He has written landmark works on French literature of the 18th century – including works on the writers Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Voltaire – and also on authors of other periods (such as Michel de Montaigne). He has also written on contemporary poetry, art, and the problems of interpretation. His books have been translated in dozens of languages.
His knowledge of medicine and psychiatry brought him to study the history of melancholia (notably in the Trois Fureurs, 1974). He was the first scholar to publish work (in 1964) on Ferdinand de Saussure's study of anagrams.
Jean Starobinski is a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (a component of the Institut de France) and other French, European and American learned academies. He has honorary degrees (honoris causa) from numerous universities in Europe and America.
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Εκπληκτικό βιβλίο. Η εις βάθος ανάλυση του συγγραφέα σε αυτές τις τρεις ιστορίες μας καταδύει στα άδυτα των αρχετύπων, των συμβόλων και των εσωτερικών ενορμήσεων που η ανθρώπινη ψυχολογία ανακαλεί σε κάθε της ανάγκη για ρήξη με τα σημαίνοντα.
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