'Le Concentrisme' and 'Jean du Chas':Two Extracts
Reading his Journal one senses that for this man, ineluctably, but quite beyond pride or disdain, social life, societal custom, every tedious discreet convention of human affliction-love, friendship, renown and what have you-was a mere tittle, or the tithe of a tittle, unavoidable, like friction, a...
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| Published in: | Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 2011-11, Vol.18 (4), p.883-886 |
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| Summary: | Reading his Journal one senses that for this man, ineluctably, but quite beyond pride or disdain, social life, societal custom, every tedious discreet convention of human affliction-love, friendship, renown and what have you-was a mere tittle, or the tithe of a tittle, unavoidable, like friction, a condition of his adherence to the surface of the earth.3 To wonder whether Jean du Chas, however insensibly and indifferently, possessed a social life as you have an inner life would be much the same as saying that he had no such thing, since insensibility and indifference hardly square with the sacrosanct tradition of the cave, fear, ignorance and fellowship shrivelled up by thunder. 4 Excluding and excluded, he frustrated the social contract without castigating it.5 It would have been pointless to expect of him a general estimate, a comprehensive critique of local and actual proclivities. |
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| ISSN: | 1071-6068 1080-6601 1080-6601 |