Papers by Jean-Michel Rabaté
1913: The Cradle of Modernism
Revue d'études rimbaldiennes Type de publication: Revue Directeurs d'ouvrage: Saint-Amand (Denis)... more Revue d'études rimbaldiennes Type de publication: Revue Directeurs d'ouvrage: Saint-Amand (Denis), St. Clair (Robert) Résumé: Fondée en 1984, la revue internationale Parade sauvage travaille dans un esprit d'ouverture critique, rassemblant des études portant sur toutes les facettes de l'oeuvre et de la vie de Rimbaud (biographie, histoire, sémantique, philologie, lexicographie, approches formelles...).
The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
Presses de l’Université de Montréal eBooks, May 22, 2018
Akademie Verlag eBooks, 1993
Die thematisch breit gefacherte Reihe umfasst Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildwissenschaft, Kulturge... more Die thematisch breit gefacherte Reihe umfasst Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildwissenschaft, Kulturgeschichte und Philosophie."
American Book Review, 2021
Cliniques mediterraneennes, 2009
This paper argues that Freud saw a link between psychoanalytic interpretation and crime, or at le... more This paper argues that Freud saw a link between psychoanalytic interpretation and crime, or at least thought that interpretation had to be as radical as possible and entail the possibility of criminal transgression. This thesis, exposed to Pfister, underpins his famous interpretation of Michelangelo’s Moses, and has consequences for his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci. It was inevitable that Pfister should then follow his master and see a vulture in Leonardo’s Saint Anne painting where there is none. Such a hermeneutic drift will be contextualized theoretically through Walter Benjamin’s analysis of artworks, based on a dialectic of aura and traces. We look for clues to find a narrative that makes auratic work more accessible, which is why Freud may seem close to contemporary crime authors like Dan Brown. However, Freud’s “Da Vinci code” has a major difference: psychoanalytic efforts at interpretation do not aim to make us more obtuse, but more actively aware of our own sexualized genesis.
The worth and girth of an Italian hoagie 3. The Posthuman, or the humility of the earth 4. Burned... more The worth and girth of an Italian hoagie 3. The Posthuman, or the humility of the earth 4. Burned toasts and boiled lobsters 5. "Porca Madonna!" Moving Descartes towards Geulincx and Proust 6. From an aesthetics of non-relation to an ethics of negation 7. Beckett's Kantian Critiques 8. Dialectics of Enlittlement: Rats in Watt 9. Bathetic jokes, animal slapstick, and ethical laughter 10. Courage, or strength to deny? Beckett between Adorno and Badiou 11. Lessons in pigsty Latin: the duty to speak well 12. An Irish Paris Peasant 13. The morality of form, a French story Coda: Minima Beckettiana
Les presses du réel eBooks, 2010
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2023
Cahiers d'études germaniques, 1989
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 22, 2022
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Mon point de départ sera délibérément bas ; je progresserai par mauvais jeux de mots et référence... more Mon point de départ sera délibérément bas ; je progresserai par mauvais jeux de mots et références plébéiennes, comme pour impliquer sournoisement que le ressassement doit se frotter au populaire, au vil, au trivial, devenir policier et pourquoi pas inquisiteur, affronter la répétition systématique, le rabâchage des interrogatoires et les contradictions révélatrices d’un suspect qui va tôt ou tard se trahir, avant de s’éprouver comme un concept critique pertinent. Ainsi partirai-je d’un S.A.S..
The conjunction of James Joyce and Jacques Derrida brings together what many would consider to be... more The conjunction of James Joyce and Jacques Derrida brings together what many would consider to be the arch representative of high modernism with the signal figure of postmodernism, a writer who authored some of the boldest experiments with the English language with a thinker who reinvented theory as deconstruction and ineradicably changed the way texts are read, studied, and written. Even within the singular history of encounters between philosophy and literature—Heidegger and Holderlin, Benjamin and Baudelaire, Sartre and Genet, to name only a few—the Derrida and Joyce relation would still hold a special place. Derrida does not comment upon Joyce (even when engaged in seemingly straightforward exegesis), but thinks with him, through him, and allows Joyce a shaping hand in his own set of philosophical concerns. While Derrida has perhaps devoted more pages in his oeuvre to other literary figures (Mallarme and Celan immediately come to mind), there is no one to whom he has returned mo...
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Papers by Jean-Michel Rabaté
La voix traverse l’oeuvre de Beckett dans son entièreté, définissant son espace et sa structure. Émanant d’une source indéterminée située hors les narrateurs et les personnages, tout en imprégnant les paroles qu’ils profèrent, elle se montre comme incessant. Alternativement, elle peut être violemment intrusive, ou incarner une présence apaisante. La création littéraire aura la fonction de transformer la mortification qu’elle inflige en une relation vivifiante au langage.
Dans l’exploration entreprise ici, la psychanalyse lacanienne offre les moyens indispensables pour aborder les facettes multiples et foncièrement paradoxales dans sont rapport au langage qui fonde la relation d’un sujet à l’existence. Loin de chercher à imposer un cadre rigide et abstrait, cette étude vise à souligner la singularité et la complexité de l’oeuvre de Beckett, et à esquisser les contours d’un potentiellement vaste champ d’investigation.
co-edited by Jean-Michel Rabate ( University of Pensylvannia) and Angeliki Spiropoulou ( University of the Peloponnese/ R Fellow at the University of London)