ECHOS DE LA MORALE ABÉLARDIENNE DANS LA NOUVELLE HÉLOISE

December 15, 2013

👤Author

Name: Luminița Diaconu
Affiliation: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of French Language and Literature
Contact: luminitaediaconu@yahoo.fr

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: Diaconu, Luminița. “Echos de la morale abélardienne dans La Nouvelle Héloise”. Synthesis, no. XL, 2013, pp. 31-41
Title: ECHOS DE LA MORALE ABÉLARDIENNE DANS LA NOUVELLE HÉLOISE
Pages: 31-41
Language: French
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2013/XL/4_Diaconu.pdf

Abstract

The correspondence between Heloise and Pierre Abélard has been until recently the central issue in many studies, focusing mainly on the scholarly master’s exceptional destiny, which had an important contribution to the pinnacle of dialectics during the twelfth century, but also to controversial ethics ideas, which fuelled many disputes among ecclesiastic authorities. We try to present the reader with a different perspective on this corpus, regarding it as a starting point with a view to strike a balance between Julie, Rousseau’s character in the New Héloïse, and her medieval patron, as he’s depicted in the first two letters attributed to the young woman known to be Abélard’s apprentice and mistress.

Keywords: Rousseau, The New Héloïse, medieval thought, the Abelardian ethical model, constraint assimilation

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