Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?

From a philological point of view, a Dictionnaire philosophique never existed as such in Voltaire’s mind: it is but a posthumous ‘work’ created by the editors of his complete works (published at Kehl in 1784) who collected all the editions of the alphabetical works of Voltaire, and other short texts...

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Main Author: Marc Hersant
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Language:Spanish
Published: University of Bologna 2012-12-01
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Online Access:https://montesquieu.unibo.it/article/view/5161
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spelling doaj-0834bd57cb4147b9880c174aab8b7cf12020-11-25T01:01:45ZspaUniversity of BolognaMontesquieu.it2421-41242012-12-014110.6092/issn.2421-4124/51614730Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?Marc Hersant0Università di Lyon IIIFrom a philological point of view, a Dictionnaire philosophique never existed as such in Voltaire’s mind: it is but a posthumous ‘work’ created by the editors of his complete works (published at Kehl in 1784) who collected all the editions of the alphabetical works of Voltaire, and other short texts published elsewhere or unpublished at all. In this paper, the author shows how the question whether the Dictionnaire is a ‘rhapsody’ of various texts or a well-structured and coherent unity is anachronistic and distorting in so far as the concept of ‘literary work’ has profoundly changed since the Eighteenth century. He defends the legitimacy of the Kehl’s edition (and of the Nineteenth century editions by Beuchot and Moland that conformed with it) against the criticism of modern philologists. What is more, he justifies it not only historically, but also as a way of reading Voltaire’s polemical prose that still enables us to appreciate the richness and complexity of his thought.https://montesquieu.unibo.it/article/view/5161VoltairePhilosophical DictionaryKehl’s editionmodern philologyliterary work
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Voltaire
Philosophical Dictionary
Kehl’s edition
modern philology
literary work
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title Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?
title_short Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?
title_full Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?
title_fullStr Il Dictionnaire philosophique: opera a pieno titolo o un «guazzabuglio in prosa»?
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publishDate 2012-12-01
description From a philological point of view, a Dictionnaire philosophique never existed as such in Voltaire’s mind: it is but a posthumous ‘work’ created by the editors of his complete works (published at Kehl in 1784) who collected all the editions of the alphabetical works of Voltaire, and other short texts published elsewhere or unpublished at all. In this paper, the author shows how the question whether the Dictionnaire is a ‘rhapsody’ of various texts or a well-structured and coherent unity is anachronistic and distorting in so far as the concept of ‘literary work’ has profoundly changed since the Eighteenth century. He defends the legitimacy of the Kehl’s edition (and of the Nineteenth century editions by Beuchot and Moland that conformed with it) against the criticism of modern philologists. What is more, he justifies it not only historically, but also as a way of reading Voltaire’s polemical prose that still enables us to appreciate the richness and complexity of his thought.
topic Voltaire
Philosophical Dictionary
Kehl’s edition
modern philology
literary work
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