Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon 2025, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon (9781836242451) — Readings Books

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Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon 2025
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Ce livre se propose, a travers le portrait du traducteur Antoine Lasalle, d'eclairer la diffusion et la reception de la philosophie baconienne en France a la fin du XVIIIe siecle et pendant la premiere moitie du siecle suivant, mais aussi de montrer dans sa materialite le travail du traducteur et l'influence de son reseau scientifique, politique et amical etendu sur la diffusion de l'oeuvre de Francis Bacon en France entre la Revolution et la seconde restauration. Il se penche egalement sur le devenir de cette traduction - appelee de ses voeux par les encyclopedistes, puis par le Comite d'instruction publique - apres sa publication. Elle a ete violemment critiquee des la sortie des premiers volumes par le geologue suisse Andre Deluc, qui considerait qu'elle faisait la promotion d'un Bacon athee. Elle a pourtant ete reeditee partiellement a plusieurs reprises, avec ou sans le nom de son traducteur, avant que le travail de ce dernier soit paradoxalement rehabilite peu de temps avant sa mort dans un ouvrage a charge contre Bacon redige par le penseur catholique Joseph de Maistre.

Through a portrait of the translator Antoine Lasalle, this book aims at shedding light on the circulation and reception of Baconian philosophy in France at the end of the eighteenth century. It explores the work of the translator and the influence of his extensive scientific, political and social network on the dissemination of Francis Bacon's works in France between the Revolution and the Second Restoration. It also looks at what happened to this particular translation - which was encouraged by the Encyclopedistes and then by the Comite d'Instruction publique - after it was published. As soon as the first volumes of the translation were published, it was fiercely criticised by Swiss geologist Andre Deluc, who thought it promoted an atheist version of Bacon's philosophy. It was partially republished several times, with or without the name of its translator, before the latter's work was paradoxically rehabilitated shortly before his death in an indictment of Bacon written by the Catholic Joseph de Maistre.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
12 May 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9781836242451

Ce livre se propose, a travers le portrait du traducteur Antoine Lasalle, d'eclairer la diffusion et la reception de la philosophie baconienne en France a la fin du XVIIIe siecle et pendant la premiere moitie du siecle suivant, mais aussi de montrer dans sa materialite le travail du traducteur et l'influence de son reseau scientifique, politique et amical etendu sur la diffusion de l'oeuvre de Francis Bacon en France entre la Revolution et la seconde restauration. Il se penche egalement sur le devenir de cette traduction - appelee de ses voeux par les encyclopedistes, puis par le Comite d'instruction publique - apres sa publication. Elle a ete violemment critiquee des la sortie des premiers volumes par le geologue suisse Andre Deluc, qui considerait qu'elle faisait la promotion d'un Bacon athee. Elle a pourtant ete reeditee partiellement a plusieurs reprises, avec ou sans le nom de son traducteur, avant que le travail de ce dernier soit paradoxalement rehabilite peu de temps avant sa mort dans un ouvrage a charge contre Bacon redige par le penseur catholique Joseph de Maistre.

Through a portrait of the translator Antoine Lasalle, this book aims at shedding light on the circulation and reception of Baconian philosophy in France at the end of the eighteenth century. It explores the work of the translator and the influence of his extensive scientific, political and social network on the dissemination of Francis Bacon's works in France between the Revolution and the Second Restoration. It also looks at what happened to this particular translation - which was encouraged by the Encyclopedistes and then by the Comite d'Instruction publique - after it was published. As soon as the first volumes of the translation were published, it was fiercely criticised by Swiss geologist Andre Deluc, who thought it promoted an atheist version of Bacon's philosophy. It was partially republished several times, with or without the name of its translator, before the latter's work was paradoxically rehabilitated shortly before his death in an indictment of Bacon written by the Catholic Joseph de Maistre.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
12 May 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9781836242451