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TY - JOUR
T1 - Le paradoxe du stigmate
T2 - ambiguité et dérives naturalistes chez Dubut de Laforest
AU - Baron, Isabelle
N1 - Date of Acceptance (informal): 21/02/2014 This article is under copyright and that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - In this paper, I examine the paradox created by the empiric and scientific epistemology of the nineteenth century, which, far from reaffirming the ideals of the Third Republic, undermines their foundations, systematically calling them into question. Civilisation, Science and economic progress no longer stand as a bulwark against social and physical pathologies. Indeed, they become a catalyst for these pathologies through theories such as atavism and heredity which promote nature’s determinism, thus establishing almost unsurmountable limits as to the future potential of lesser social groups via education. Through the concept of stigma, developed by the American sociologist Erwing Goffman, I will illustrate the ambiguities and the consequences of this paradox and its associated discursive shifts in Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest’s les Derniers Scandales de Paris.
AB - In this paper, I examine the paradox created by the empiric and scientific epistemology of the nineteenth century, which, far from reaffirming the ideals of the Third Republic, undermines their foundations, systematically calling them into question. Civilisation, Science and economic progress no longer stand as a bulwark against social and physical pathologies. Indeed, they become a catalyst for these pathologies through theories such as atavism and heredity which promote nature’s determinism, thus establishing almost unsurmountable limits as to the future potential of lesser social groups via education. Through the concept of stigma, developed by the American sociologist Erwing Goffman, I will illustrate the ambiguities and the consequences of this paradox and its associated discursive shifts in Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest’s les Derniers Scandales de Paris.
KW - naturalisme
KW - Dubut de Laforest
KW - Carnivalesque
M3 - Journal article
VL - 89
SP - 169
EP - 195
JO - Cahiers Naturalistes
JF - Cahiers Naturalistes
SN - 0008-0365
IS - 61e année
ER -