Le Moi Et L'interiorite (Textes Et Traditions, 17)

by Gwenaëlle Aubry (Editor), Frédérique Ildefonse (Editor)

De ce moi qui occupe d'abondance le champ litteraire et philosophique, on dit communement qu'il est absent de la pensee antique. On se propose d'abord d'interroger, pour eventuellement la remettre en question, cette curieuse absence. Y a-t-il place, dans le champ antique, pour autre chose que le soi , cet impersonnel degage des particularites biographiques qui excede l'individu tout en recelant son identite? Dans quels concepts antiques est-on fonde a reperer, autrement distribues, les elements du concept moderne de moi, quels sont ceux qui, a l'inverse, lui sont abusivement rallies? Plutot qu'une place vide, ne trouve-t-on pas, chez les Anciens, un concept alternatif du moi, delie de l'unicite comme de l'interiorite? La seconde partie de ce volume vient orienter le programme indique par Vernant d'une histoire de l'interiorite et de l'unicite du moi vers une histoire de l'interiorite, c'est-a-dire une histoire des problematisations de l'interieur. Si l'organisation mentale et psychique des Grecs n'etait pas orientee vers le dedans, mais vers le dehors, si l'introspection n'est pas une pratique de fait, comment est apparue l'alliance entre subjectivite et interieur que nous presupposons le plus souvent? Il fallait, indissociablement, illustrer combien cette problematisation de l'interieur n'est pas exclusive, et identifier comment les associations qui la composent peuvent etre deliees, au profit parfois d'un tout autre paysage conceptuel.

384 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published October 12, 2012

About the author

Gwenaëlle Aubry (born 1971) is a French novelist and philosopher.

She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the Rue d'Ulm and at Trinity College, Cambridge. She graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy. She lectured in ancient philosophy, at the Nancy 2 University, from 1999 to 2002, a research fellow at CNRS since 2002. She taught philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

She has published several books and articles on ancient philosophy and its contemporary reception, and translated Plotinus.

She is the author of five novels: The Devil spotter is the story, haunted by the figure of Persephone, of the passion of a teenager for a mature man; The Detached was the story told by 'a young woman, Margot, distant sister of Florence Rey, from the prison where she is incarcerated. She says her love for Peter, her experience of rebellion and radical rejection. The voice of this prisoner, which still resounds in isolation, is a story about prison, bereavement and deprivation.

Resident of the Villa Medici in 2005, she wrote a novel on the ugliness in our lives, through the inner monologue of an ugly woman on the aesthetic discourse of indifference of the beautiful and the ugly. Following this, she composed an anthology, The (dis) taste of ugliness.

She adapted for France Culture, a radio play of The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch.

In 2009, she won the Prix Femina for Personne, a story about her father who suffered from manic-depression. From the diary he kept which she found after his death, and also her own memories, she traces the fragmented portrait of a man who was a stranger to himself and the world.

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