Le dire-vrai d'Alceste
(2013) Les Lettres Romanes — Vol. 67, n° 1-2, p. 167-197 (2013)
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- Taking the assumption that, in The Misanthrope by Molière it is, more a matter of form rather than substance, more a matter of ways of being rather than absolute ideals, we propose to reexamine the play in the light of this modality of being, favored in Antiquity: parrhesia, usually translated as "outspokenness," "truth-telling" (Michel Foucault), which Alceste claims to practice from the outset. However, if, the play seems to signify the banning of this outspokenness, by the final exit of the main character, we must still ask ourselves, first, if parrhesia-not only as an aesthetic principle of social representation, but also as a mode of subjectivation (ethics)-, does not continue, but in a different way, to feed the development of subjectivities in the seventeenth century, and, second, to what extent this new understanding of classical subjectivity may give us the opportunity to reassess our interpretation of morality at that time.
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Picardi, E. (2013). Le dire-vrai d’Alceste. Les Lettres Romanes, 67(1-2), 167-197. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.LLR.1.103365 (Original work published 2013)