Parier Sur Le Temps: La Quete Heroique d'Immortalite Dans l'Epopee Homerique, Catherine Collobert (9782251326757) — Readings Books

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Parier Sur Le Temps: La Quete Heroique d'Immortalite Dans l'Epopee Homerique

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English summary: In elucidating the heroic concepts and mindset of that era, the author outlines a key relationship between time, the heroic ethic and epic poetry. In the cyclical interval of tireless repetition, there is room for a moment in which humans have the opportunity to distinguish themselves by becoming exceptional beings; in other words, have a chance to become immortal. The desire for immortality driving the hero actually comes from awareness of his finiteness. The quest for recognition which is the heroic ethic’s foundation is thus meant to be a response to time’s destructive action. This response nonetheless requires the song of the poet, who alone is capable of endowing heroic exceptionality with its everlasting nature. Poetization and aestheticization are thus the key to heroic immortality. No hero can exist without a poet, any more than a poet can without a hero. This book reveals how the combination of heroic gesture and poetic gesture constitute a wager on time, whose stake is to leave a trace that is preserved in, and lasts through, time. French description: Cet ouvrage propose une lecture philosophique de l'epopee homerique. Degageant la conception et la conscience heroiques du temps, l'auteur y etablit une relation fondamentale entre le temps, l'ethique heroique et la poesie epique. Dans le temps cyclique de l'inlassable repetition, il y a place pour un temps dans lequel l'etre humain a la possibilite de se distinguer en devenant un etre d'exception, celle, en d'autres termes, de devenir immortel. Le desir d'immortalite qui anime le heros resulte en effet de la conscience de sa finitude: la quete de la renommee sur laquelle repose l'ethique heroique se veut ainsi une reponse a l'action destructrice du temps. Cette reponse necessite neanmoins le chant du poete, qui, seul, peut conferer a l'exceptionnalite heroique son caractere imperissable. La poetisation et l'esthetisation sont en effet la condition de l'immortalite heroique. A cet egard, il n'est pas de heros sans poete, pas plus qu'il n'est de poete sans heros. Ce livre montre comment la geste heroique et le geste poetique constituent de maniere solidaire un pari sur le temps, dont l'enjeu est de laisser une trace qui se conserve dans et avec le temps.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Les Belles Lettres
Country
France
Date
17 February 2011
Pages
304
ISBN
9782251326757

English summary: In elucidating the heroic concepts and mindset of that era, the author outlines a key relationship between time, the heroic ethic and epic poetry. In the cyclical interval of tireless repetition, there is room for a moment in which humans have the opportunity to distinguish themselves by becoming exceptional beings; in other words, have a chance to become immortal. The desire for immortality driving the hero actually comes from awareness of his finiteness. The quest for recognition which is the heroic ethic’s foundation is thus meant to be a response to time’s destructive action. This response nonetheless requires the song of the poet, who alone is capable of endowing heroic exceptionality with its everlasting nature. Poetization and aestheticization are thus the key to heroic immortality. No hero can exist without a poet, any more than a poet can without a hero. This book reveals how the combination of heroic gesture and poetic gesture constitute a wager on time, whose stake is to leave a trace that is preserved in, and lasts through, time. French description: Cet ouvrage propose une lecture philosophique de l'epopee homerique. Degageant la conception et la conscience heroiques du temps, l'auteur y etablit une relation fondamentale entre le temps, l'ethique heroique et la poesie epique. Dans le temps cyclique de l'inlassable repetition, il y a place pour un temps dans lequel l'etre humain a la possibilite de se distinguer en devenant un etre d'exception, celle, en d'autres termes, de devenir immortel. Le desir d'immortalite qui anime le heros resulte en effet de la conscience de sa finitude: la quete de la renommee sur laquelle repose l'ethique heroique se veut ainsi une reponse a l'action destructrice du temps. Cette reponse necessite neanmoins le chant du poete, qui, seul, peut conferer a l'exceptionnalite heroique son caractere imperissable. La poetisation et l'esthetisation sont en effet la condition de l'immortalite heroique. A cet egard, il n'est pas de heros sans poete, pas plus qu'il n'est de poete sans heros. Ce livre montre comment la geste heroique et le geste poetique constituent de maniere solidaire un pari sur le temps, dont l'enjeu est de laisser une trace qui se conserve dans et avec le temps.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Les Belles Lettres
Country
France
Date
17 February 2011
Pages
304
ISBN
9782251326757