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Léa Boman
Doctorante en philosophie - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (ISJPS)
Agrégée de philosophie
2023/2024 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher - Harvard University
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Supervisors: Sandra Laugier
Agrégée de philosophie
2023/2024 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher - Harvard University
[email protected]
Supervisors: Sandra Laugier
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Yet this return to the ordinary is also shared by a literature of which Emerson is a contemporary, and which embodies "the literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life" that Emerson evokes and invokes in The American Scholar. Catherine M. Sedgwick, Lydia M. Child, Lydia Sigourney, and Eliza Buckminster Lee constitute this literature of the domestic novel, novel of the family or novel of the "Republican Motherhood" (Kerber, 1980), but it is also as liberals and religious authors that they can be understood (Buchanan, 1998), illustrating the development of a theology, Unitarian-inspired for some, within literature. I would like to understand the tensions of this literature with Emerson's work insofar as he read and knew them (Richardson, 1995) even in person, like Lydia M. Child, a friend of Margaret Fuller (Marshall, 2013). This will also raise the question of how this literature of reconciliation and Emerson attempted to respond differently to the problem of inheriting religiously and philosophically the violence of Puritanism in early nineteenth-century America.
This passage has been widely commented. First, this case may not reflect the rich perfectionist perspective elaborated in the rest of her work (Frosberg, 2017). And contrary to Cavell's analysis, this case may in reality be interpreted in perfectionist terms (Jamienson 2020 ; Lorenzini, 2021) and "M’s moral activity and inner change should be described in the terms of a conceptual transformation" (Donatelli 2010). Nevertheless, and from several angles, Iris Murdoch and Emersonian perfectionism differ in their conceptions of the self and self-transformation. However, the importance of moral imagination and perfectionist perception may be two major aspects of their conception of ethics. Finally, I will explore Iris Murdoch's conception of inner life in The Sovereignty of Good, which resonates but still contrasts with Emerson's concept of self-reliance, both against traditional moral theories.
replay (YouTube) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7TRXlatqs
Institut d'Asie Orientale (ENS de Lyon), Institut Acte (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Programme JSPS/CNRS Education to Democraty, Éditions Vrin, Éditions Flammarion
interpretation of modern forms of self‐education as political and ordinary practices –
first, in relation to conspiracy theories, and second, through the explicit claim to self-
education made by activists in ecological, anti‐racist or feminist organisations. These
examples reveal a new kind of efficient and ordinary political power at the edge of
civic commitment. This leads to an alternative conception of pedagogy, in which
equality in self‐reliance matters. Informed by Stanley Cavell's interpretation of
Emerson's essay, but crossing American and French perspectives, my discussion
provides a perfectionist account of activism.
Yet this return to the ordinary is also shared by a literature of which Emerson is a contemporary, and which embodies "the literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life" that Emerson evokes and invokes in The American Scholar. Catherine M. Sedgwick, Lydia M. Child, Lydia Sigourney, and Eliza Buckminster Lee constitute this literature of the domestic novel, novel of the family or novel of the "Republican Motherhood" (Kerber, 1980), but it is also as liberals and religious authors that they can be understood (Buchanan, 1998), illustrating the development of a theology, Unitarian-inspired for some, within literature. I would like to understand the tensions of this literature with Emerson's work insofar as he read and knew them (Richardson, 1995) even in person, like Lydia M. Child, a friend of Margaret Fuller (Marshall, 2013). This will also raise the question of how this literature of reconciliation and Emerson attempted to respond differently to the problem of inheriting religiously and philosophically the violence of Puritanism in early nineteenth-century America.
This passage has been widely commented. First, this case may not reflect the rich perfectionist perspective elaborated in the rest of her work (Frosberg, 2017). And contrary to Cavell's analysis, this case may in reality be interpreted in perfectionist terms (Jamienson 2020 ; Lorenzini, 2021) and "M’s moral activity and inner change should be described in the terms of a conceptual transformation" (Donatelli 2010). Nevertheless, and from several angles, Iris Murdoch and Emersonian perfectionism differ in their conceptions of the self and self-transformation. However, the importance of moral imagination and perfectionist perception may be two major aspects of their conception of ethics. Finally, I will explore Iris Murdoch's conception of inner life in The Sovereignty of Good, which resonates but still contrasts with Emerson's concept of self-reliance, both against traditional moral theories.
replay (YouTube) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7TRXlatqs
Institut d'Asie Orientale (ENS de Lyon), Institut Acte (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Programme JSPS/CNRS Education to Democraty, Éditions Vrin, Éditions Flammarion
interpretation of modern forms of self‐education as political and ordinary practices –
first, in relation to conspiracy theories, and second, through the explicit claim to self-
education made by activists in ecological, anti‐racist or feminist organisations. These
examples reveal a new kind of efficient and ordinary political power at the edge of
civic commitment. This leads to an alternative conception of pedagogy, in which
equality in self‐reliance matters. Informed by Stanley Cavell's interpretation of
Emerson's essay, but crossing American and French perspectives, my discussion
provides a perfectionist account of activism.