Jean-Claude Vuillemin (born 24 March 1954) ^[1] is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus of French literature in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University .

Career [ edit ]

The recipient in March 2011 of the prestigious PSU Class of 1933 Award for Distinction in the Humanities, JC Vuillemin pursues research in 17th-Century French Literature and Philosophy; Post-structuralism and Reception theories; Baroque Episteme ; Semiotics of Drama; Theater and Performance Theories; Continental Philosophy and Contemporary French Literature. Inspired by the Foucaldian notion of episteme , and by the "linguistic turn" combined to the "actor paradigm," JC Vuillemin has continually challenged the ideological perception of a "classical" France and advocated the pertinence of the Baroque as a pertinent concept to be applied not only to architecture and visual arts, but also to literature and philosophy. Although it may be argued that a major methodological interest of the Baroque hypothesis lies in its very imprecision, his book, Episteme baroque: le mot et la chose (Hermann, 2013) provides a new theory for a concept which JC Vuillemin associates with the epistemological breakdown Europe experienced in the wake of the emergence of Modern science . As a conceptual framework in which poetics, politics, and epistemology interact, his conception of the Baroque is much less aesthetic than purposefully philosophical. ^[2] According to JC Vuillemin, Sapere aude ('dare to know') should be the motto of the Baroque.

JC Vuillemin collaborated to the first critical edition of Jean Rotrou ’s complete theater (Belles-Lettres / Sorbonne-Paris-4, 1998-2019) and he published in 2017 an on-going annotated digital bibliography: Jean de Rotrou: bibliographie critique [1] . Vuillemin collaborated as well to the first Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers (Thoemmes Press / CNRS; trans. for Classiques Garnier). In addition to his book on Baroque episteme , he wrote one book on Rotrou’s dramaturgy ( Baroquisme et theatralite ), three critical editions of Rotrou's plays ( L’Hypocondriaque ; L’Innocente Infidelite ; La Belle Alphrede ), and he has authored many articles, book chapters, and reviews. He frequently lectures on both sides of the Atlantic. In his latest book, Foucault l'intempestif (Hermann, 2019), JC Vuillemin revisits and clarifies some key concepts of the so-called " pensee Foucault ," and pleads for the emergence of a "post-Cartesian" subject whose discourse ( logos ) will be congruent with his or her actions ( ergon ).

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Books [ edit ]

• Michel Foucault l'intempestif . Paris, Hermann, coll. "Philosophie", 2019
• Jean de Rotrou: bibliographie critique . University Park, Penn State U. Open Publishing, 2017 [2]
• Episteme baroque: le mot et la chose . Paris, Hermann, coll. "Savoir Lettres", 2013
• Jean Rotrou, La Belle Alphrede , in G. Forestier, ed., Theatre complet de Jean Rotrou . Vol. 9. Paris, SDTF-Les Belles Lettres, 2008
• Jean Rotrou, L’Innocente Infidelite , in Theatre complet de Jean Rotrou . Vol. 7. Paris, SDTF-Les Belles Lettres, 2005
• Jean Rotrou, L'Hypocondriaque ou Le Mort amoureux. Edition critique . Geneve, Droz, collection Textes litteraires francais, 1999
• Esthetique baroque et imagination creatrice . Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. M. Kronegger et J-Cl. Vuillemin, ed., Tubingen, G. Narr Verlag, 1998
• Baroquisme et theatralite: le theatre de Jean Rotrou . Paris-Seattle-Tubingen, PFSCL-Biblio 17, 1994.

Selected articles [ edit ]

• "Souci de Moi, appropriation et rehabilitation," Alkemie. Revue semestrielle de litterature et philosophie , 29 (2022-1), 75-96.
• "Philosopher (d’) apres Foucault," Philosophie, science et societe ,(2019): https://philosciences.com/philosophie-generale/la-philosophie-et-sa-critique/375-philosopher-foucault .
• "Vanites: une invitation a jouir et a se rejouir?,” Quetes litteraires , 8 (2019), 9-20.
• "Epistemologie du regard au seuil de la modernite,” Europe , 96 (Mai 2018), 295-312.
• "Foucault archeologue: genealogie d'un concept," Implications Philosophique , (2017): http://www.implications-philosophiques.org/implications-epistemologiques/foucault-archeologue-genealogie-dun-concept/
• "Le jeu et la jouissance: pour un ‘troisieme temps’ du theatre," Romance Notes , 56.2 (2016): 333-344.
• "Foucault et le classicisme: les œilleres de l'histoire (litteraire), Fabula-LHT , 11, November 2013, "Pratique theorique et jouissance theatrale," Poetique, 174,2 (2013), pp. 189?213.
• "Reflexions sur l’episteme foucaldienne," Cahiers philosophiques , 130 (2012), pp. 39?50.
• "Theatrum mundi: l’usage des mirages," Le Magazine Litteraire , 499 (2010), pp. 66?68.
• "Reflexions sur la reflexivite theatrale," L’Annuaire theatral , 45 (2010), pp. 119?136.
• "Theatrum mundi: desenchantement et appropriation," Poetique , 158 (2009), pp. 171?196.
• "Jean de Rotrou (1609-1650)," in M. de Boisdeffre, ed., Celebrations nationales 2009 , Paris, Archives de France et Ministere de la Culture, 2009.
• "Francois Blondel," "Abraham Bosse," "Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin," "Jean Racine," in Luc Foisneau, ed., Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers . 2 volumes, Londres et New York, Thoemmes Continuum, 2008.
• "Baroque: le mot et la chose," in Œuvres & Critiques . D. Scholl, ed., "La question du baroque," 32.2 (2007), pp. 13?21.
• "Jeux de theatre et enjeu du regard," Litteratures classiques . P. Pasquier ed., "Le theatre de Rotrou," 63 (2007), pp. 239?249.
• "Tonner contre la tyrannie du verbe: spectacles baroques et discours classiques?," Etudes Episteme , 9 (2006), pp. 307?329.
• "L’Œil de Galilee pour les yeux de Chimene: epistemologie du regard et la Querelle du Cid ," Poetique , 142 (2005), pp. 153?168.
• "Le masque, la figure et le concombre: reflexions theatrales," Litteratures Classiques . H. Baby, ed., "Formes, genres, pratiques dramatiques au XVIIe siecle : la question du mineur," 51 (2004), pp. 69?89.
• "Strategies et apories de l’eloquence sacree: l’œuvre oratoire de Bossuet," in J.-Ph. Grosperrin, ed., Bossuet / Sermons. Anthologie critique . Paris, Klincksieck, 2002.
• "En finir avec Boileau... . Quelques reflexions sur l’enseignement du theatre ‘classique’," Revue d’Histoire du Theatre , 3 (2001), pp. 125-146.
• "Illusions comiques et dramaturgie baroque: Corneille, Rotrou et quelques autres," Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature , 28.55 (2001), pp. 307?325.
• "Baroque: pertinence ou obsolescence?," in R. Tobin, ed., Racine et/ou le classicisme . Tubingen, G Narr Verlag, 2001.
• "Litterature, esthetique et ideologie: la problematique baroque," Etudes Aveyronnaises (1999), pp. 203?222.

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Notes

Sources

• Venner, Camille (2013). "Une autre lecture du baroque" in La Quinzaine Litteraire , vol. 1089, p. 18.
• http://news.psu.edu/story/454963/2017/03/15/literary-arts/comprehensive-rotrou-bibliography-published-penn-state

External links [ edit ]

• Directory entry for JEAN-CLAUDE VUILLEMIN at Penn State