| Titre | L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville | |
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| Auteur | Michel Imbert | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 133, 3ème trimestre 2012 La vérité | |
| Page | 8-23 | |
| Résumé anglais |
In The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the pursuit of truth emerges as an endless self-cancelling process, resting ultimately on the will to believe, thus heralding Charles S. Peirce's and William James's insights. The final scene, the would-be moment of truth, brings confusion to a climax by pointing to baffling paradoxes such as the potential advent of the Savior under the guise of a crook. The paradoxes inherent in such a dubious revelation call into question the usual definition of truth in terms of logical consistency and adequacy to facts. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFEA_133_0008 |
