TY  - BOOK
AU  - Imbert,Michel
TI  - L'heure de vérité dans The Confidence-Man d'Herman Melville
PY  - 2013///.
							
N1  - 37
N2  - In The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the pursuit of truth emerges as an endless self-cancelling process, resting ultimately on the will to believe, thus heralding Charles S. Peirce’s and William James’s insights. The final scene, the would-be moment of truth, brings confusion to a climax by pointing to baffling paradoxes such as the potential advent of the Savior under the guise of a crook. The paradoxes inherent in such a dubious revelation call into question the usual definition of truth in terms of logical consistency and adequacy to facts
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2012-3-page-8?lang=fr&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -