De l’exubérance végétale à la prédation animale

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  • Jean Libis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2399

Parole chiave:

Vegetality, Animality, Will to Live, Rêveries

Abstract

It is paradoxically reductive to summarize the bachelardian imaginary of the four fundamental elements. Not only the elements themselves are declined in a variety of materials, but also the bachelardian dynamic is open to the size of a cosmos that can not be reduced to the logic of a quadrangulation. In this context, for the philosopher, the vegetal world also seems to be an inexhaustible source of references and rêveries, which constitute a main pole of meditation. Naturally, references to the plant world appear dispersed in the work of the philosopher: the “aerial tree”, the root, the vine, the water lilies. They are not less multiplied and subtly recurring. Thus Bachelard talks about “notre végétalisme profond” (our deep vegetality).

It is necessary to consider the meaning of this enigmatic formula. And this is even more important since the philosopher has always kept himself to the edge of the animal world, to which, after all, he rarely refers to, and in front of which he repeatedly expresses a kind of surprising reluctance. It may be possible that it is not adapted to what, for Bachelard, is more essential while he proceed with is work to a “philosophie du repos” (philosophy of rest).

We can also make a disturbing hypothesis: is animality, full of the “Will to Live” that Schopenhauer placed at the heart of his system? Is it ontologically close to that troubled humanity the philosopher feels a very ambiguous sympathy for? Bachelardian vegetality would it be the opposite of what we might call problematic humanism?

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Biografia autore

Jean Libis

Jean Libis est Vice-Président de l’Association des Amis de Gaston Bachelard. Professeur dans l'Enseignement secondaire, puis dans les Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles à partir de 1984. Il s’est retiré de l’enseignement à partir de l’année 2000 pour se consacrer notamment à l’écriture. Il a participé aux travaux de recherches du Centre Gaston Bachelard de l'Université de Bourgogne ; du groupe interdisciplinaire « Traverses », Université de Paris VIII ; de la revue franco-italienne « Bachelardiana » publiée à Gênes (Italie) par Il Melangolo. Il est l’auteur de Les lectures de Gaston Bachelard (2011 Presses Universitaires de Franche Compté), Gaston Bachelard ou la solitude inspiré (2007 Berg), Bachelard et la mélancolie (2000 Presses Universitaire du Septentrion).

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2012-10-03

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Libis, Jean. 2012. «De l’exubérance végétale à La prédation Animale». Altre Modernità, ottobre, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2399.

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