Une attitude libertine: badiner avec la mort. Boureau- Deslandes et ses Réflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont morts en plaisantant
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Francine Markovits
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/1
Language French Pages 16 P. 19-34 File size 493 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2012-001004
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Don’t philosophers die just like all other men? In order to speak of the death of philosophers, why choose an author like Boureau-Deslandes, who collected anecdotes of insolence in the face of death? Undoubtedly, free minds could only disarm theology by joking about it. The mental, moral and playful mechanisms of the mind can be taken apart to reveal the bans inscribed in the conscience through the workings of institutions. Against the philosophies of melancholy, fear, death and power, a philosophy of banter is a cheerful philosophy, an ethics of taste that destabilises the rules. It is this practice of bantering insolence that turns temperament into virtue and a man into a philosopher.
Keywords: Taste, play, libertine, masque, Montaigne, fear, to joke, power, Saint-Evremond, scepticism, theology
Francine Markovits, Une attitude libertine: badiner avec la mort. Boureau- Deslandes et ses Réflexions sur les grands hommes qui sont morts en plaisantant in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2012, pp 19-34, DOI: 10.3280/SF2012-001004