Saint-Exupéry écrivain. : Poétique et politique du platonisme renversé.
(2012)
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- Jacques , Georges
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- (en) This thesis proposes to reassess the meaning of Saint-Exupery’s literary work regarding the history of representations and the history of ideas, in the assumption that it proposes and demonstrates a radical reversal of the platonic imaginary that structured most Western representations since their origins, inversion that has been since Nietzsche a major challenge of modernity. The first part of the work is devoted to the systematic and progressive examination of Saint-Exupery’s poetics, especially concerning the central theme of his work, aviation. The first chapter traces the history of representations of flight, from which the imaginery of aviation will develop. The second chapter outlines, on this basis, the specifics of the poetics of aviation invented by Saint-Exupery. The following chapter examines the narrative structures involved in this poetics and proposes a new typology for aviation novels that is based upon a new approach to the initiatory novel. The fourth and final chapter of this first part then shows why these narrative structures can be interpreted as manifestations of a myth of return to the origins, which has since then unfurled into a literary myth, the myth of the little prince. After this exposition of an overall interpretation of Saint-Exupéry’s works, as suggested by its articulation to the literary field, and more generally to the history of representations of flight, the second part of the thesis shows how it also participates in the history of ideas. The first part shows that the projects of Nietzsche and Saint-Exupéry echo to each other in terms of poetry, throughout their developments, both challenging and finally evacuating the Platonic and Judeo-Christian representation systems, whose structures are experiencing a radical reversal in their texts. The second chapter of this second part, which is also the last of this thesis, then shows how the poetry of Saint-Exupery, according to an axiology based on the human bond, configures an ethic of responsibility that announces the development of moral philosophy after the Second World War, namely in some of Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Hannah Arendt’s upcoming works.
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Odaert, O. (2012). Saint-Exupéry écrivain. : Poétique et politique du platonisme renversé. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93916