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    Corps politiques, esprit de corps et pouvoir sur les corps chez Malebranche et Foucault.Raffaele Carbone - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    The theoretical dialogue that has been going on for many years between the philosophies of the modern period and the social sciences on the institutional structuring of the social body and the political body can shed light on the concept of ‘esprit de corps’. The purpose is to address the issue raised by social science researchers concerning this concept and to use it as an indication of a broader work spanning corpora and periods from early modernity onwards. Therefore, this article (...)
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    Un fantôme dans la machine. Esprit de corps et survie de l’État chez Bourdieu et Deleuze-Guattari.Céline Hervet - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    Transposing the thorny issue of the union of body and mind onto the political plane, this article investigates what produces the cohesion of the body politic through an inquiry into the genesis and survival of the institution of the State in light of the concept of esprit de corps. While Bourdieu draws on the work of Kantorowicz to consider the genesis of the modern State through the gradual secularisation of the idea of the sovereign’s embodiment of the collective body in (...)
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    L’esprit de corps. Sur les ressorts imaginaires et affectifs du politique.Céline Lantoine Hervet - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    This issue examines some of the philosophical problems around the concept of esprit de corps from three angles: the ambivalence of a concept that appears elusive, phantasmatic, even magical, yet which produces powerful effects of identification and political unification; the re-contextualisation and critique of the organicist metaphor of the ‘body politic’, where the very import of the democratic regime and society is tested, and finally, a revisitation of the Classical Age, in which the affective and imaginative triggers of social ties (...)
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    Une loyauté précaire. L’esprit de corps chez Bourdieu et Spinoza.Jacques-Louis Lantoine - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    Looking at the esprit de corps in the light of Bourdieu and Spinoza’s work gives an account of the phenomenon of loyalty based on social (habitus) and affective dispositions. In this matter, the Bourdieusian reference to Pascal is undoubtedly the most significant and assumed. Allusions to Spinoza, which are quite frequent, are often only strategic or circumstantial borrowings. However, a detour through a Spinozist analysis of the affective – which does not mean psychological – motives behind the esprit de corps (...)
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    Construire la totalité. L’« esprit de corps » dans la France du XVIIIe siècle (Voltaire, Diderot, d’Holbach, Helvétius).Matteo Marcheschi - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    Starting from the first occurrences in French of ‘esprit de corps’ (Saint-Simon, Voltaire), this article investigates this phrase’s philosophical and metaphorical presuppositions of eighteenth-century uses. After analysing Voltaire’s attempt to define the concept of esprit de corps in the ‘ESPRIT’ article of the Encyclopédie, I will examine a passage from Diderot’s Rêve de D’Alembert, in which esprit de corps is traced back to its metaphorical origin: esprit de corps here appears as esprit du corps, which shows how the political use (...)
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    Norbert Elias et « l’idéal du nous ».Claire Pagès - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    This article traces how the sociologist Norbert Elias understands what leads an individual to say ‘we', to form a mental unit with a group, but also to refuse to form a unit or to feel part of it, or even to deny being an integral part of a ‘we’ to which close interdependent relationships nonetheless like him. His social and group theory of identity, which rejects the division between the individual and society, led Elias to develop the idea that two (...)
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    « Nombre des hommes » et « populatio » à la fin de la Renaissance : notes sur la généalogie des savoirs démographiques.Luca Paltrinieri - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    In one of his lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault observed that, prior to the eighteenth century, ‘population’ was a ‘present-absent’ object in the theories and practices of government. In this paper, I have attempted to reconstruct the genealogical history of proto-demographic thought as reflected in the works of three major Renaissance political theorists: Niccolò Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, and Giovanni Botero. While all three thinkers address the question of how to cultivate a large and flourishing population, the primary obstacle (...)
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    Intériorité et « sujet » dans les Méditations métaphysiques.Raphaël Pierrès - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    Despite a well-established tradition, this article confronts the issue of whether it is legitimate to discuss the Cartesian ego as ‘subject’. Indeed, the term ‘subject’ does not apply to the ego in the Meditations on First Philosophy. In his responses to Hobbes’ objections, Descartes refused the reformulation from ‘a thing that thinks’ to ‘the subject of the mind’. Applied to the ego, the concept of subject renders the Cartesian problem incomprehensible. I propose here to conceive of it as the issue (...)
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    Claude Lefort. La démocratie comme régime de la désincorporation.Nicolas Poirier - 2024 - Astérion 31 (31).
    Philosophers have often used the image of the body to think the organisation of the polis. This representation has long been dominant as it makes it possible to envisage the organisation of a society with cohesion between its members strong enough to ensure its proper functioning and perpetuation over time. The positions defended by Claude Lefort are original as they show that it is impossible to envisage democracy, both as a political regime and as a form of social life, with (...)
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    Mais où sont les guerres d’antan?Mathilde Campa Bernard - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    In their introduction to Les Guerres d'antan, Mathilde Bernard, Laurence Campa and Ninon Grangé outline the conceptual framework that led to developing this study, which crowns several years of joint research by researchers in history, literature, philosophy and history of art on the sources and models of war. This preliminary work made it possible to establish just how powerful imagination of the wars of yesteryear is in shaping contemporary wars, an observation that led to preparing a symposium in May 2022. (...)
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    Normativités pirates : à partir d’une singularité commune à Bodin, Grotius et Hobbes.Thomas Berns - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    The pirate is a figure that is both marginal to war – since he is excluded from it – and central – since he is regularly called upon to define it. From a few evocations of this figure by Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes, all of which are based on Thucydides, we want to bring to light a normativity that is specific and immanent to the space of warlike violence.
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    Thil Ulenspiegel et Philippe II d’Espagne en Grande Guerre.Marine Branland - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    From the 16th to 19th and again in the 20th century, Till Eulenspiegel weaved his way through time and history. He became a legendary character of the Dutch Revolt embodying the freedom against the persecutions of Philip II of Spain in Charles De Coster’s version (1867) and the tale was given new significance during the First World War. Two Belgian artists (Paul-Auguste Masui-Castricque and Walter Vaes) referred to the legend in their engravings to deliver a message on the ongoing war. (...)
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  13. Revisiter les violences passées pour expliquer celles d’un conflit vécu : imaginaire médiéval, souvenirs des guerres révolutionnaires et impériales dans les écritures de soi des civils en 1870-1871.Sandra Chapelle - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    The French defeat of 1871 against Prussia and its allies was experienced and felt as a deep trauma by contemporaries. The personal accounts (diaries and letters) of those who lived through the war but who did not fight, testify both to the multiplicity of their feelings in the face of a situation they did not understand, and to the mechanisms that they put in place in order to give meaning to defeat. The first of these is the use of the (...)
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    Maine de Biran : métaphysique et psychologie.Anne Devarieux - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    What can we expect from metaphysics? Defending metaphysics against its enemies and its enemies against themselves (Ideologists), according to Maine de Biran, requires a twofold struggle, capable of avoiding both the dangers of abstract metaphysics that only acknowledges a priori principles and refuses the title of science of principles to that which would be based on experience, and Condillac-inspired metaphysics, including Ideology, which acknowledges only one kind of experience, external experience. Biran builds a metaphysics of internal experience founded on the (...)
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    Théoriser la morale à l’époque de Clausewitz : historicité ou transhistoricité?Hervé Drévillon - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    In the history of war thinking, a transhistorical approach has emerged, with the value of not subjecting the theory to circumstances, particularly those fuelled by technical factors. This ambition was closely linked to Clausewitz’s theory, which was based on the difference between the historical character of “real war” and the transhistorical character of “absolute war”. Prior to Clausewitz’s theory, the transhistorical character had crept into the thinking on warfare in the modern era, which had developed a great deal around the (...)
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    Spectres, conjuration et invocation (de la guerre) dans les représentations de la crise. Une réflexion à partir du droit de crise.Marie Goupy - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    Emergency powers are shaped by representations of war. For proof of this, we not only need to observe the origins of a large part of this kind of law, but also the more or less explicit model provided by war in many interpretations of emergency legislations, at least since the French Revolution. Nevertheless, from the outset, this relationship has been particularly ambivalent. It remains ambivalent today, when governments apply emergency legislations during the fight against terrorism or during the health crisis, (...)
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    Une impossible guerre d’avant : l’écriture et la mémoire dans La Comédie de Charleroi de Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.Akihiro Kubo - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    After publishing his first collection of poems entitled Interrogation (1917), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle returned to writing on the First World War in La Comédie de Charleroi (1934). The writer examined the moral and political significance of the “last war” in a retrospective manner in this collection of autobiographical short stories that he published just before his conversion to Fascism. However, Drieu did not treat his experience of the war as a distant memory. On the contrary, his texts are characterised (...)
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    « Et la vie a passé comme ont fait les Açores ». Aragon, la guerre, le temps.Pierre-François Moreau - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    Aragon lived through two wars directly, and his relationship with them was different: most of what he wrote about the First World War was written forty years later, in Le Roman inachevé, whereas the Second World War led immediately to the poems of Crève-Cœur and Les Yeux d’Elsa, and then to those of the Resistance. A different relationship to time, then. But precisely because of the upheavals it brought to both historical and everyday experience, the illusions it shattered and the (...)
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    La guerre de Troie, matrice de la guerre de croisade.Florence Tanniou - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    Throughout the Middle Ages, the Trojan legend was used as a benchmark for writing about war. But, it was in the backdrop of the Crusades, in particular the Fourth Crusade (1204) and its aftermath, that it becomes a fully significant archetype. On the one hand, the Trojan War featured in the narrative of contemporary conflicts and, on the other hand, the Trojan narrative was expanded on and updated, so as to express and reflect on ongoing conflicts. Through a distinct geographical (...)
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    Perdre l’expérience de guerre. Autour d’une obsession moderne.Déborah Vanaudenhove Brosteaux - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    Given remote warfare technology, a diagnosis is often made: modern warfare would lead to a derealization and even a loss of war experience. This paper takes the unease that this diagnosis triggers as its starting point, insofar as it reveals certain attachments to war that have been nurtured throughout modern times. From trenches to drones, the act of lamenting the loss of war experience marks the history of modern warfare. This paper looks at the eminently-modern, active expectations, that haunt this (...)
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    Les guerres de Religion au miroir des conflits antiques : François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, dans Les Essais de Montaigne.Alicia Viaud - 2024 - Astérion 30 (30).
    Francis de Lorraine, an important Catholic military leader of the first war of Religion, is mentioned in two chapters of the Essays which relate his behaviour outside the siege of Rouen (I, 23) and during the battle of Dreux (I, 45). Montaigne compares the conduct of the Duke of Guise with that of Augustus, then with that of Philopœmen and Agesilaus, in two parallels based on borrowings from Seneca and Plutarch. The analysis of chapters I, 23 and I, 45 allows (...)
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