Satirical debate and spinosism in Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître, by Denis Diderot

• Grant number: 20/01039-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2020
• End date: June 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Flávia Cristina de Souza Nascimento Falleiros
• Grantee: Luca Barreiro Lopes de Almeida
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We intend, in this study, to understand how literary procedures are articulated to the spinosan philosophy in Jacques le fataliste et son maître. Therefore, it will be sought to understand the artistic resources of this novel, especially the satirical procedures, so we can finally analyze how they have structured some ideas proposed in the "Theological-political treaty" and in "Ethics", by Baruch Spinoza. Besides that, with the help of theorists like Henri Bergson and Mikhail Bakhtin, who debate the comical and the satire, we aim to investigate if the critical propositions, comically expressed by the literary work, still match with the spinosan philosophycal prepositions exposed in the above-mentioned treaties.