Avec condescendance. Philosophie populaire et tradition rhétorique chez J. A. Ernesti et Chr. Garve
Résumé
This study considers the rhetorical dimension which defines the originality of german ‘popular philosophy': giving philosophy the rhetorical form of reason aiming to produce the maximum clarity. This reinterpretation of the rhetorical perspicuitas was not however without its ambiguities – in the work of Ernesti (1707-1781), who borrowed from Diderot the concept of ‘popular philosophy', but preserved latin, no less than in Garve (1742-1798), who systematically put it into practice. In the latter's work, the project of a rational transparency of discourse specific to the rhetoric of clarity is contradicted by the necessity of adapting it to the public.
Domaines
Philosophie
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