Le tour critique 2013 – « (…) Woolf’s poetics, not so much as an abstract system, but through its pro-cesses and their objects » (foreword)

How does Woolf’s work think? And what is it about her texts that makes this question a possibility? These were among the questions that an international conference, held in partnership with the “Collège International de Philosophie” at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris in March 2012, set out to unravel. To put Woolf’s work in “the company” of philosophers, to deploy the open, relatively imprecise, but deliberately non-hierarchical, determinations suggested by the preposition “among” (the valences of which Rachel Bowlby interrogates in detail) was enough to institute a critical premise that would authorise a plurality of approaches, but also a particular historical take.

(From Chantal Delourme’s foreword)

Comment pense l’œuvre de Virginia Woolf ? A quoi, dans les modes de son écriture, la spécificité de cet enjeu tient-il ? Ce fut cette question que le colloque organisé au lycée Henry IV à Paris en mars 2012, en collaboration avec le Collège International de Philosophie se donna comme tâche de déployer, de déplier.

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Virginia Woolf among the philosophers / Virginia Woolf parmi les philosophes

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