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Les mots et les choses : the obscenity of Pierre Bayle

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Date
01/10/2018
Author
van der Lugt, Mara
Keywords
Obscenity
Poetry
Words
Stoicism
Morality
Euphemisms
Censorship
Sexual self-stimulation
Apologetics
Cynicism
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Abstract
Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (1696) was notorious not only for its irreligious doctrines, but also for its ‘obscenities’. In the second edition Bayle added an ‘Éclaircissement’, in which he defended himself against accusations of lewdness while providing a historical, philosophical, and literary analysis of what it means to write obscenity. This article discusses Bayle's ‘obscenities’ in the various editions of the Dictionnaire, as well as his self-defence and theory of transgressive speech, and analyses his distinction between words, things, and ideas. It marks the obscenities as a progressive political move in the Republic of Letters of Bayle's day.
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van der Lugt , M 2018 , ' Les mots et les choses : the obscenity of Pierre Bayle ' , Modern Language Review , vol. 113 , no. 4 , pp. 714-741 . https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.113.4.0714
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Modern Language Review
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.113.4.0714
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0026-7937
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Journal article
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© 2018 Modern Humanities Research Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.113.4.0714
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18588

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