Topic
Tentation
About: Tentation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18 publications have been published within this topic receiving 44 citations. The topic is also known as: Delblush.
Papers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue against fetishizing the power and wholesomeness of colonial archives, and equating the scarcity of post-1960 repositories with new difficulties to write the past of Africa.
Abstract: : I argue here against two things: fetishizing the power and wholesomeness of colonial archives, and equating the scarcity of post-1960 repositories with new difficulties to write the past of Africa. Instead, I suggest the productive power of odd findings, and the necessity for historians to trust the energy of heterodox pieces to create original and meaningful historical narratives. Resume : Cet essai recuse la tentation de fetichiser la completude des archives colo-niales sur l’Afrique en opposant leur relative richesse a la parcimonie des depots apres 1960. Ce n’est pas tant la regularite des sequences archivales qui permet d’ecrire sur le passe, que le pouvoir mysterieux de fragments empiriques rencon-tres ici et la, isoles et souvent enigmatiques. Le recit historique depend des inflex-ions problematiques que ces etranges trouvailles proposent au chercheur. Introduction When I decided to work on Equatorial Africa, the promise of unusual archives and exotic surroundings played a huge role in my resolve. A stu-dent at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Superieure, I felt pressure from my mentors to choose the right MA topic, e.g. something that would foster my intellectual growth while keeping me within the bounds of meth-odological safety. Afflicted by a contrarian spirit, I chose wrong of course,
16 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored the concrete conditions in which this kind of knowledge can be constructed, and found that the animal kingdom is often used as an anthropological operator of identity, using either similitude or inversion or contrast.
Abstract: EnglishThe temptation to seek in primates our own origin is still found in ethology. More broadly speaking, we see that the animal kingdom is often used as an anthropological operator of identity, using either similitude or inversion or contrast. The observation data most often reflect values, or even preferences, concerning modes of social organization. However, this observation should not lead to relativism. On the contrary, it invites us to envisage ethological knowledge as constructing humans and animals at the same time, together. This article sets out to explore the concrete conditions in which this kind of knowledge can be constructed.FrenchLa tentation d'interroger les primates en leur posant la question de notre origine reste presente dans le domaine de l'ethologie. Plus largement, on peut remarquer que l'animal se constitue souvent comme un operateur anthropologique d'identite, soit par similitude, soit par inversion ou contraste. Or, les faits issus des observations traduisent le plus souvent d...
9 citations
Dissertation•
9 Apr 2014
TL;DR: DeTrana et al. as discussed by the authors place Gustave Flaubert's play, La Tentation de saint Antoine, within his larger œuvre and present an overview of fourth-century Alexandria, Egypt, of St. Anthony, which is the historical setting for the play.
Abstract: LA TENTATION DE SAINT ANTOINE: GNOSTIC HERESIES IN THE FOURTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES John A. DeTrana, MA George Mason University, 2014 Thesis Director: Dr. Paula Ruth Gilbert This study places Gustave Flaubert’s play, La Tentation de saint Antoine, within his larger œuvre. It presents an overview of fourth-century Alexandria, Egypt, of St. Anthony, which is the historical setting for the play. Next, it explores the nineteenthcentury Paris and France of Gustave Flaubert. Finally, it attempts to identify nineteenthcentury French cults or religious movements, which may have prompted Flaubert to have chosen to feature fourth-century gnostic heretics so prominently in this play.
9 citations
1 Apr 2011
TL;DR: In this article, an overlooked area of Flaubert research, the Indian religions in La Tentation de saint Antoine of 1874, is addressed, focusing on the contexts of Antoine's encounters with the Gymnosophist and Buddha.
Abstract: This essay addresses an overlooked area of Flaubert research, the Indian religions in La Tentation de saint Antoine of 1874. Through close examination of the opening scenes of tableau five, it argues that Antoine's reading of them provides a much more dynamic model than critical theories of text — source hunting, genetic criticism, intertextuality — for how to read the ideas of his age. By focusing on the contexts of Antoine's encounters with the Gymnosophist and Buddha, the essay argues that very contem porary nineteenth-century scientific ideas are dressed up in the 'Indian' religious ones, and that the nineteenth-century texts of science that lie behind these scenes are not quite as scientific as they first appear. The essay then examines why no 'bibliotheque fantastique' exists of the many works in natural science that Flaubert read to inform the Tentation of 1874. Its conclusions look for answers in the interpersonal nature of Flaubert's scientific reading, and hence the need to look beyond t...
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the differences and ressemblances entre les Diables, les Sinnekins and le Vice are examined in quelques pieces of theâtre en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas, and montre que ces roles sont en rapport etroit avec des propos moraux ou ethiques de portee variee.
Abstract: Le present article examine les differences et ressemblances entre les Diables, les 'Sinnekins' et le Vice dans quelques pieces de theâtre en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas, et montre que ces roles sont en rapport etroit avec des propos moraux ou ethiques de portee variee. La theâtralite de ces trois types est discutee en termes d'un usage de l'espace scenique et de certaines caracteristiques de langage. Le Diable, dote d'une puissance mythique absente chez les deux autres types, est souvent traite de maniere a souligner sa distance par rapport aux autres personnages, en particulier par sa localisation, son costume et son langage. Le langage des Sinnekins et du Vice exploite leur intimite avec le public. Ces deux categories de personnages representent d'ordinaire des incarnations du mal plutot que de simples tentateurs et, par contraste, on distingue la subtile tentation de Lucifer dans Wisdom. Nous suggerons que l'attrait de ces trois types pour les dramaturges se fondait non seulement sur leur application au propos ethique, mais aussi sur la richesse de leur contenu theâtral
4 citations
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