A Face for Distraction / La Bruyère
A Face for Distraction / La Bruyère
This chapter examines the thoughts of Jean de La Bruyère on the concept of distraction. It offers an ontological and political interpretation of La Bruyère's le distrait and suggests that le distrait inadvertently reflects the conditions under which the concept of distraction might become thinkable. It explains that La Bruyère's distracted one described in his Les Caractères almost exclusively dwells in the sphere of social phenomena. This chapter also suggests that La Bruyère believed that the distracted one exists but does not lend being to what he encounters, even if they are distractible beings like him.
Keywords: distraction, Jean de La Bruyère, le distrait, Les Caractères, social phenomena, distracted one
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