%0 Journal Article
%T The linguistic terror in France according to Jean Paulhan and Jean-Paul Sartre
%J Journal of the history of ideas
%D 2022
%A Doering, Jonathan
%V 83
%N 4
%P 555-578
%X The literary critic and NRF editor Jean Paulhan devised a way of thinking about fluctuating historical and psychological attitudes toward language, organizing them into a dialectic of "Rhetoric" and "Terror." In this article, I focus on Paulhan and Sartre's response to the interwar crisis of Terror and explore Rhetoric and Terror as a heuristic in the intellectual history of France.   The term "linguistic turn" typically suggests a sustain4ed effort to reorieng a given discipline arpound problems of language. Between 1890 and 1950, an array of such turns, forming a "constellation across Europe," strove to investigate "language as such." The literary scene of interwar France, however, was less of a turn and more of an ever spinning tourniquet often propelled by factions pulling away from language Rhetoric and Terror...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I University of Pennsylvania Press
%@ 0022-5037
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0037