TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Giocanti, Sylvia
TI  - The skeptical sweetness of imposture, from Montaigne to La Mothe Le Vayer
T2  - La Lettre clandestine 2021, n° 29. L’Imposture et la littérature philosophique clandestine
JO  - La Lettre clandestine (ISSN 2271-720X), 29, 2021
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11884-8.p.0025
SN  - 2271-720X
SP  - 25
EP  - 42
AB  - Imposture in the seventeenth century is associated with the libertine fight against religion. However, in the tradition of Montaigne’s skeptical anthropology, it can be the ally of a fabulist imagination that protects man from what he is not able to know. While Fontenelle and Pascal emphasize its social function, La Mothe Le Vayer rehabilitates it psychologically, making it a part of a rhetorical device that turns the Stoic rhetoric of consolation on its head.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/09
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - skepticism, imposture, La Mothe Le Vayer, Montaigne, Pascal
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/la-lettre-clandestine-2021-n-29-l-imposture-et-la-litterature-philosophique-clandestine-the-skeptical-sweetness-of-imposture-from-montaigne-to-la-mothe-le-vayer.html
Y2  - 2024/05/26
ER  -