Louis Marin

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Louis Aimé Marin (born May 22, 1931 in La Tronche ; † October 29, 1992 in Paris ) was a philosopher , historian , semioticist , art historian and critic.

Professional career

Louis Marin was cultural advisor to the French embassy in Turkey from 1961 to 1964. He then became director of the French Institute in London until 1967. In 1967 he became a professor at the Université de Paris-Nanterre and at the UER d'Arts Plastiques de Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 1970 he taught at the University of California in San Diego and from 1974 to 1977 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. From 1977 to 1992 he was professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Center de Recherches Historiques in Paris. In 1978 he became Directeur d'études and in 1987 Directeur du Center de recherche sur les arts et le langage at EHESS. From 1985 until his death he taught as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University. In 1992 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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Marin shows in his work the tensions, lack of transparency and aporias in representation and symbol theory . He thinks of the French 17th century together with the history of the development of modernity and thus illuminates modern ideas about signs, representation and power. In The Portrait of the King he starts from Pascal's theory of signs in order to be able to theorize at the same time the power of the sign and the signs of power. He also explores this relationship in La Fontaine , Racine and Perrault . In his turn to painting and its representation , for example through Poussin , Caravaggio and Philippe de Champaigne , one finds the same dialogue between classicism and modernism. Based on texts by Montaigne , Rousseau and, above all, Stendhal , Marin takes up the subject of autobiography, the production and representation of oneself, in Die Excommunierter Voice and L'écriture de soi . His perspective is reminiscent of that of Philippe Lejeune , but differs through more philosophical questions and a stronger emphasis on the paradoxical statements of the autobiographical genre. This sets Marin apart from his contemporaries and his structuralist predecessors. In From the Powers of the Image , which can be understood as the sum total of his work, he asks about the original power of the image. Following the deconstructivist criticism of the philosophical tradition, for which an image was always a weakening of being, Marin turned from the image of being to the "being of the image".

His influence can be seen among other thinkers such as Jacques Derrida , Hubert Damisch and Georges Didi-Huberman .

Works

  • Études sémiologiques: Ecritures, peintures (1971, rééd. Klincksieck, 2005)
  • Sémiotique de la Passion, topiques et figures (Desclée de Brouwer - Aubier-Montaigne, 1972)
  • Le récit évangélique avec Cl. Chabrol (Aubier-Montaigne, 1972)
  • Utopiques: jeux d'espaces (Minuit, 1973)
  • La Critique du discours (Éditions de Minuit, 1975)
  • Détruire la peinture (Éditions Galilée, 1977)
    • Destroying painting , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2003
  • Le récit est un piège (Editions de Minuit, 1978)
  • Le Portrait du roi (Editions de Minuit, 1981)
    • The portrait of the king , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2006
  • La Voix excommuniée. Essais de mémoire (Éditions Galilée, 1981)
    • The excommunicated voice. Attempts to remember , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2002
  • La Parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques (Klincksieck, 1986)
  • Jean-Charles Blais, du figurable en peinture (Busson, 1988)
  • Opacity de la peinture. Essais sur la représentation en Quattrocento (Éditions Usher, 1989). New edition: Éditions de l'EHESS, nouvelle édition, 2006
    • The opaque painting. For representation in the Quattrocento , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2004
  • Lectures traversières (Albin Michel, 1992)
    • Lateral reading , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2011
  • De la représentation (Seuil, 1993)
  • Des pouvoirs de l'image ouvrage posthumous publié en 1993.
    • From the powers of the image. Glossen , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2007
  • Philippe de Champaigne, ou, La présence cachée (Hazan, 1995)
  • Pascal et Port-Royal (PUF, 1997)
  • De l'entretien (Minuit, 1997)
  • About the art talk, diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2001
  • Sublime Poussin (Seuil, 1998)
  • L'écriture de soi (PUF, 1999)
  • Politiques de la représentation (Kime, 2005)
  • Textures of the Pictorial , diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2006
  • In the laboratory of the writing figure , in Legibility / Lisibilité , ed. M. Pic & E. Alloa. in: Trivium. Franco-German journal for the humanities and social sciences 10 (2012).

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SURNAME Marin, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marin, Louis Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher, historian, semiotic, art historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH La Tronche
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1992
Place of death Paris