L’éloge du vagabondage au XIXe siècle : une pensée minoritaire

• Authors: Julien Jeusette

Title variants

EN

The eulogy of vagrancy in the 19th century: Stirner, Nietzsche, Gide

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

All along the nineteenth century in France, the vagabond becomes a main social and philosophical issue, for he is hunt down by scientists – vagrancy is conceived as a mental illness – and by jurists – different laws are created to criminalize the act. By establishing a link between this sudden obsession and the concern expressed by thinkers (Tocqueville, Comte, Bourget) that the society is dangerously blowing apart in separate individuals, this paper aims to analyze the manifestation of this conflict between society and vagabond in literature, among others Barrès’ Les Déracinés and Gide’s Nourritures terrestres.

Keywords

FR

vagrancy; marginality; individualism; evasion; anarchism; Gide; Barrès

EN

vagrancy; marginality; individualism; evasion; anarchism; Gide; Barrès

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 47-55

Dates

published

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Julien Jeusette

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.4571