This book rescues Joubert from the ranks of minor French
moralistes, and, by tracing the development of his thought from his
time as secretary to Diderot through to the period of his
association with Chateaubriand, demonstrates that he was a writer
on aesthetics of considerable sensitivity. Examination of his
manuscripts and of his annotation to books in his library shows
that Joubert's primary concern, during the period that witnessed
the gradual but profound change from the intellectual values of the
Enlightenment to those of the Romantic period, was to establish the
status and nature of art and poetry. Reading widely among
philosophers and poets from Plato and Homer to Kant and Andre
Chenier, Joubert consigned his thoughts and perceptions to a series
of carnets which form the basis of this study and bear witness to
an unusually eclectic and enquiring mind. Joubert's significance is
not confined to the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. He is
unique among writers of his day in the way that his own
interrogation of the very act of writing anticipates the aesthetic
of later, highly influential writers such as Mallarme.
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