Renan en Orient Balcou, Jean; Bigaignon, Arnaud; Botouropoulou, Iphigénie ...
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02/2022
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Ce livre suit l’irrésistible mouvement qui entraîne Ernest Renan de la mission de 1860-1861 en Liban-Palestine à la circumnavigation de 1864-1865 au Proche-Orient, mouvement qui s’inscrit dans un ...cycle majeur qui va de la rédaction en 1864-1874 de la Mission de Phénicie aux sept volumes des Origines du christianisme écrits entre 1861 et 1882. Le propre des contributions réunies ici est précisément de se focaliser sur Renan en Orient, qui relève d’une sorte de roman expérimental, d’où jaillit la vie. Des lieux mêmes : une Phénicie sortie des fouilles, Jésus rencontré en Palestine, le départ foudroyant de Paul par monts et par flots, l’arrêt à Athènes avant de repartir, le christianisme s’allumant de port en port. Du voyageur lui-même : archéologue, poète de Jésus à Ghazir au Liban, suiveur infatigable de l’apôtre, pèlerin de l’Acropole, conquérant celte au pays du Levant. Ces deux grands voyages ont produit les matériaux de deux beaux monuments qu’on n’en finit plus de visiter. Avec, au cœur, passionaria christique, Henriette Renan, en repos là-bas, aux abords de l’antique Byblos.
Scholarship on George Eliot’s 1860s Condition-of-England novel Felix Holt has been divided on whether it signals the racist nativism of its decade or advocates for inclusive, willed national ...belonging. This paper proposes that it accomplishes both, promoting what I call “willed ethnonationalism.” A counterintuitive phrase, willed ethnonationalism captures how Eliot’s novel both defines the nation-form against race belonging and encourages modern nationals to perform racial self-identification. I argue that this stance emerged from Eliot’s engagement with Ernest Renan’s philological career. Recalling how theories of racial-linguistic inheritance influenced a zeitgeist of thinking around constructed nations (epitomized by Renan’s 1882 essay on nationalism), I show how mythic ideas about racial roots informed the ostensibly rational form of the nation-state as expressed in late nineteenth-century fiction and essayistic prose.
At the age of twenty-seven, David Castelli had a crisis of faith. Born in the Tuscan port city of Livorno in 1836, Castelli was a promising student on the path to rabbinic ordination. He studied with ...some of Italy's most influential teachers--including Benedetto (Abraham Barukh) Piperno, who also taught Sabato Morais, founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary. But his doubts made Castelli abandon the path to the rabbinate; he moved to Pisa, home of the Scuole Normale Superiore, one of Italy's most venerable seats of Orientalist scholarship. In Tuscany's most famous university town, he devoted himself to the study of Arabic and Syriac. As a colleague and friend remarked after Castelli's death in 1901, the scholar's religious crisis was "easily explained." Castelli's "acute and logical intellect" made it impossible for him to conform to the "demands of the synagogue, where, as in any other religious institution," one is required to take part in "indisputable veneration for tradition and practice." Like Ernest Renan--to whom Castelli was often compared by both his admirers and his detractors--the late scholar opted for "complete intellectual liberty."
In his seminal definition of "nation," the Frenchman Ernest Renan put his finger on one of the most important steps in the formation of national identity: not just the remembering but also the ...forgetting of history especially the most painful and divisive episodes of the nation's past. One such painful and divisive episode, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the subsequent foreign occupation and short-lived Paris Commune, constituted the context for Renan's speech on the subject. But long before and after Renan's remarks on the importance of forgetting, national identity in France as elsewhere has been forged at least as much by what has been neglected as by what has been recollected in collective memory. Here, Haynes discusses the first modern occupations of France.
ERNEST RENAN'S RACE PROBLEM PRIEST, ROBERT D.
The Historical journal,
03/2015, Letnik:
58, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This review revisits the role of race in Ernest Renan's thought by situating contemporary debates in a long perspective that extends back to his texts and their earliest interpreters. Renan is an ...ambivalent figure: from the 1850s onwards he used ‘race’ to denote firm differences between the ‘Aryan’ and ‘Semitic’ language groups in history; but after 1870, he repeatedly condemned biological racism in various venues and contexts. I show that the tension between these two sides of Renan's thought has continually resurfaced in criticism and historiography ever since the late nineteenth century. Renan's racial views have been subject to particularly close scrutiny following Léon Poliakov's and Edward Said's critiques in the 1970s, but the ensuing debate risks developing into an inconclusive tug-of-war between attack and apologia. I propose three fresh directions for research. First, historians should situate the evolution of Renan's ideas on race in closer biographical context; secondly, they must reconsider the cultural authority of his texts, which is often more asserted than proven; thirdly, they should pay greater attention to his reception outside Europe, particularly regarding his writing on Islam.
In 1897, the fifteen-year-old future poet Catherine Pozzi sought a solution to the problem of religious truth. As disillusioned with Catholic ritual as she was irritated by the proselytizing of her ...Protestant English tutor, she nonetheless retained a certain intuitive faith in God and admiration for Jesus. Writing in her diary, Catherine imagined a time when she might emerge from this adolescent uncertainty. Here, Priest demonstrates that Pozzi was not the first to believe that Ernest Renan's work offered the materials for an alternative religious identity that eluded the sectarian divisions of post-Enlightenment Europe. Adapted from the source document.
