Thèse soutenue

L'instance kantienne dans la révolution théorique et fictive de Thomas Quincey

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Auteur / Autrice : Éric Dayre
Direction : Denise Degrois
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Études anglaises
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

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This thesis examines the influence of the kantian philosophy in thomas de quincey's works. Our starting point is the non-typical position of de quincey in the romantic period and his violent and sometimes polemical criticism of kant's style. This criticism rapidly meets a number of apories that are repeated in de quincey's literary practice, in the critical, allegorical and sentimental fiction of his great autobiographical texts (confessions, suspiria, autobiographical sketches). The german philosopher's ambivalent relationship to critical prose and to moral mhilosophy leads us to the study of the question of time and the rhetoric of temporality in the english writer's works, as well as to the scrutiny of the legacy of transcendantal aesthetics in the poetics of dependance that de quincey invents. The question both that of the ideology of the romantic religion which is destined to take the place of moral duty, and of the internal criticism of this ideology. More particularly, we study the question of the analogical constitution of the subject, through the paradigms of the affinities between sensations in the subject, through the paradigms of the affinities between sensations in the opium-state. We also examine the links between reason, fancy and imagination, understanding, memory, and in the opium eater's "prose-fugues". This thesis ends with a study of the last days of immanuel kant.