Le rapport homme – animal dans l’« Histoire naturelle » de Buffon

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62413/lc.2018(1).03

Keywords:

human, animal, nature, natural sciences, style, Buffon, enlightenment, carnivorous, sensibility

Abstract

The work of Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon is important and revealing from the perspective of natural sciences as well as from the literary point of view. The encyclopedic articles of his work "Histoire Naturelle" contain valuable scientific reasonings expressed with artistic taste and in an eloquent style. Long before Darwin, the French naturalist and philosopher Buffon spoke with great delicacy and ease about the relationship between humans and the animal world. His reflections based on traditional truths and the subtlety of his judicious language, manage to bring to light various important problems, that were later at the origins of new sciences and research fields. These questions open up new avenues for discussion of the animality of man as well as the eventual human elements in animals.

 

Cuvinte-cheie: om, animal, natură, științe naturale, stil, Buffon, iluminism, carnivor, sensibilitate

 

REZUMAT

Opera lui Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon este importantă și revelatoare atât din punctul de vedere al științelor naturale, cât şi din punct de vedere literar. Articolele enciclopedice din lucrarea sa „Histoire naturelle” conțin raționamente științifice valoroase, exprimate cu gust artistic și stil elocvent. Cu mult înainte de Darwin, naturalistul și filozoful francez Buffon a vorbit cu mare delicatețe și pricepere despre relația dintre om și lumea animală. Reflecțiile sale bazate pe adevăruri tradiționale și subtilitatea limbajului său judicios, reușesc să scoată la lumină probleme importante care, mai târziu, s-au aflat la originea unor noi științe și domenii de cercetare. Aceste întrebări deschid noi căi de discuție despre animalitatea omului și despre eventualele caracteristici umane la animale.

 

LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION

French

 

TITLE IN ENGLISH

The Human – Animal Relation in Buffon’s “Natural History”

 

UDC: 821.133.1.09”19”-32(092)Buffon

 

REFERENCES

Bouchet, A., Masson, J.-L. (1979). La localization anatomique de l’âme au cours des siècles (pp. 95-106). https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/sfhm/hsm/HSMx 1980x014x001/HSMx1980x014x001x0095.pdf.

Buffon, Leclerc de G.-L., Cuvier, G. (1835). Oeuvres complètes de Buffon (tome 1), P. Dumenil, 1835.

Buffon, Leclerc de G.-L., Cuvier G. (1846). Oeuvres complètes de Buffon (tome 5), Abel Ledoux.

Deléage, J.-P. Protection de la nature. Histoire. Encyclopedia Universalis. http:// www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/protection-de-la-nature-histoire.

Drouet, Em. (2010). Le monde Microbien: Partie 1: Microbes et Microbiologie, support de cours, Grenoble. Université Joseph Fourrier. https://studylibfr.com/doc/ 1840599/le-monde-microbien---partie-1.

Duris, P. Histoire naturelle (Buffon). Encyclopedia Universalis. http://www. universalis.fr/encyclopedie/histoire-naturelle-buffon/.

Grance, E., Rollois A.-Cl. (2013). Ethique anthropocentrée versus éthique biocentrée, deux mouvements radicaux de l’éthique environnementale. Université de Versailles, Saint Quentin en Yvelines. http://ethiquesantepop.ca/ressources/documents/ ethique-anthropocentree-versus-ethique-biocentree-deux-mouvements-radicaux-de.

Guichet, J.-L. (2010). Enjeux de la question de l’animal sous les Lumières : Condillac, Diderot, Rousseau, du 11 au 14 octobre 2010 à l’ENS de Lyon. http://ecole-thema.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article45&contenu=texte#onglet-texte.

Laissus, Y. (2007). Buffon: un tricentenaire justement célébré. Rayonnement du CNRS, 44, 5-21. http://www.buffon.cnrs.fr/etudes/pdf/buffon CNRS.pdf.

 

Received: February 3, 2018 | Reviewed: February 20, 2018 | Accepted for publication: April 3, 2018

 

Google Scholar cited by

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Ecaterina Foghel, "Alecu Russo" Balti State University, Republic of Moldova

MA, Ph.D. Student, author of publications indexed in WoS, e-mail: eforghel.prof@gmail.com

Downloads

Published

01.05.2018

How to Cite

Foghel, E. (2018). Le rapport homme – animal dans l’« Histoire naturelle » de Buffon. Limbaj şi Context / Speech and Context International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science, 1(10), 45–58. https://doi.org/10.62413/lc.2018(1).03

Issue

Section

Research articles

Categories

Most read articles by the same author(s)