Dirk Rose, L’époque polémique, FMSH-WP-2016-117, décembre 2016.
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L’auteur
Dirk Rose est né en 1976 à Erfurt, il a étudié la littérature allemande et française ainsi que l’histoire moderne à l’Université-Friedrich-Schiller de Iéna puis à l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris et, enfin à l’Université-Humboldt de Berlin. Sa thèse de doctorat soutenue à l’Université de Munich porte sur la littérature galante. Il est professeur-assistant ( Juniorprofessor) de littérature allemande à l’Université-Heinrich-Heine de Düsseldorf.
Le texte
Abstract
The essay focuses on the diagnostic of the time around 1800 as «the age of polemics» by Friedrich Schlegel. It follows the traces of this concept in Schlegel’s years at Paris between 1802 and 1805. Due to the radical media-speech at the French Revolution, Paris has become the European centre of polemics. Responsible for this image was mainly the revolutionary newspaper Le Père Duchêne which is analysed here in his polemical functions and writings. After the death of Napoleon I, Friedrich Schlegel has announced the end of the polemical age. But as shown in the final part of the essay, this was merely wishful thinking. Quite the contrary, «the age of polemics» is more or less the beginning of permanent conflicts and radicalisations that one can resume as a part of modernity itself.