| Titre | L'autre comme « imbécile ». Le système clos de la critique comme opération d'inclusion/exclusion | |
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| Auteur | Rainier Lanselle | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 26, 2004 «De la difficulte de juger». Quelques ressources du mode critique en Chine et au Viêt Nam | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III. Classer/exclure |
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| Page | 139-161 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Others as Fools : Criticism as Process of Exclusion
This paper examines some elements of the Jin Shengtan's (1610-1661) commentary on Wang Shifu's (ca 1250-1307) Western Wing. In this commentary, Jin Shengtan repeatedly attacks what he considers poor readers of a text he admires, whom he calls « fools ». The counter-effect of his stressing the so-called « fools' » inepty is that Jin Shengtan continuously seeks to establish an other image in their place : a subject who would be supposedly well-fitted-to-me. In so doing, the critic can ignore the division which lays inside his own discourse, setting his hope on a perfectly univocal discourse which would be embodied by a master's position. Remitting himself to this idealistic figure which frees him from the troublesome problems of ambiguity, the commentator does no real work of criticism : accumulating only small-scale but tirelessly repeated ad hoc notations, he can stay in a position in which he ignores his own willingness of « not-knowing » (the « not-knowing » position there being assumed by the imaginary persona of the « fool »), as what would be to know would be nothing but eventually the division in his discourse, and of himself as a subject. Instead, the commentator concentrates all his efforts into something he knows well : the art of indirect meaning, in which it is easy to recognize the possibility it gives to seal part of the discourse beneath its explicit statement - which is the perfect figure of a securely maintained unknown dimension. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2004_num_26_26_1216 |
