Les mouvements de la vanité à l ’époque des Lumières
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2018
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Quêtes littéraires 2018
Abstract
Cet article propose de considérer la laïcisation progressive de la vanité aux
XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Une fois sortie du champ théocentrique, la vanité dénotera
moins la vacuité et la brièveté de la vie terrestre qu ’une une malséance sociale qui va
à l ’encontre des moeurs du temps et qui s ’inscrit donc dans le temporel. Ce glissement
du sacré au saeculum entrainera aussi un changement par rapport au mouvement
qu ’elle connote. Si jadis, la vanité était le passager et le fugace, elle désignera désormais
l ’impliable et le rigide.
This article examines the progressive secularization of vanity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Once removed from its theocentric origins, vanity will denote less the vacuity and transience of earthly life and will refer increasingly to socially indecorous behavior that is firmly anchored in the temporal. This shift from the sacred to the saeculum will also cause a shift in the way we imagine vanity ’s connoted movements. Once the transient and fleeting, vanity in the 18th century will come to designate the unpliable and the rigid.
This article examines the progressive secularization of vanity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Once removed from its theocentric origins, vanity will denote less the vacuity and transience of earthly life and will refer increasingly to socially indecorous behavior that is firmly anchored in the temporal. This shift from the sacred to the saeculum will also cause a shift in the way we imagine vanity ’s connoted movements. Once the transient and fleeting, vanity in the 18th century will come to designate the unpliable and the rigid.
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vanité, laïcisation, temporalité, religion, vanity, secularization, temporality, religion
Citation
"Quêtes littéraires" 2018, nº 8, s. 43-52