Self-Portraits of Ribot as a correspondent
Feuerhahn, Wolf
Self-Portraits of Ribot as a correspondent - 2016.
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Letters are used here not as the ultimate keys for understanding the works of an author, but as sources that shed light on his plurality as a writer. Depending on the status of the letters and of their recipients, the style is not the same, both the presentation of oneself and the content vary. The letters of Ribot that could be salvaged illustrate the plurality of the identities he took up: with his friend Espinas, he slayed academic spiritualism; for the administration, he was a teacher trying to escape from provincial appointments; with Charles Lévêque, he was a contender; with Renouvier and Taine, an imitator; with Wundt and James, the introducer of a foreign science; with Tarde and Piéron, a career-maker; with Xavier Léon, a distant elder; with Lionel Dauriac, an old man confiding; with Bouglé and Lévy-Bruhl, the director of a journal in need of contributors.
Self-Portraits of Ribot as a correspondent - 2016.
82
Letters are used here not as the ultimate keys for understanding the works of an author, but as sources that shed light on his plurality as a writer. Depending on the status of the letters and of their recipients, the style is not the same, both the presentation of oneself and the content vary. The letters of Ribot that could be salvaged illustrate the plurality of the identities he took up: with his friend Espinas, he slayed academic spiritualism; for the administration, he was a teacher trying to escape from provincial appointments; with Charles Lévêque, he was a contender; with Renouvier and Taine, an imitator; with Wundt and James, the introducer of a foreign science; with Tarde and Piéron, a career-maker; with Xavier Léon, a distant elder; with Lionel Dauriac, an old man confiding; with Bouglé and Lévy-Bruhl, the director of a journal in need of contributors.
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