Publicação

Rivarol relu et corrigé

Detalhes bibliográficos
Resumo:	Five years before the French Revolution, young Rivarol received the Berlin Academy Prize for his “Discours sur l’universalité de la langue française”. At the peak of its influence in the Europe of the Enlightenment, the idiom spoken by Descartes and Voltaire asserted itself as the very language of the Reason, supported by the luxury goods bought from Paris. Reading the Discours today leads us to make a major correction to its main assumption: the arising French-speaking countries and cultures and the crisis of the European Reason have brought forth such an axiological transformation that the concrete and living diversity has got in our eyes a much higher value than the abstract and tasteless universality of old.
Assunto:	langue française diversité french language french-speaking world universalité Rivarol (Antoine de) diversity francophonie universality
País:	Portugal
Tipo de documento:	journal article
Tipo de acesso:	Aberto
Instituição associada:	Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses
Idioma:	francês
Origem:	Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses

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Resumo:	Five years before the French Revolution, young Rivarol received the Berlin Academy Prize for his “Discours sur l’universalité de la langue française”. At the peak of its influence in the Europe of the Enlightenment, the idiom spoken by Descartes and Voltaire asserted itself as the very language of the Reason, supported by the luxury goods bought from Paris. Reading the Discours today leads us to make a major correction to its main assumption: the arising French-speaking countries and cultures and the crisis of the European Reason have brought forth such an axiological transformation that the concrete and living diversity has got in our eyes a much higher value than the abstract and tasteless universality of old.