Jean-Claude Vuillemin

Jean-Claude Vuillemin

Liberal Arts Research Professor Professor Emeritus
Jean-Claude Vuillemin

Fields

Early Modern French Literature and Philosophy; Theater Theories and Performance Studies; Literary Criticism and Theory

Education

Ph.D. Michigan State University

Professional Bio

Attentive to contemporary French literature, theater, and intellectual debates, Jean-Claude Vuillemin has published extensively on early-modern literature and philosophy, theater and performance reception, and literary theories. Inspired by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, he has challenged in Épistémè baroque: le mot et la chose (2013) the ideological truism of “French classicism” and promoted the notion of baroque as a pertinent theoretical concept apt to characterize not only architecture and visual arts, but also literature, philosophy, and intellectual history. Affiliated with several research institutes in France (U. Paris-8, CNRS, U. Paris-4 Sorbonne, U. Lyon-2), JC Vuillemin frequently lectures on both sides of the Atlantic. He has recently completed a comprehensive critical bibliography on Jean de Rotrou and, after Foucault l’intempestif (Hermann, 2019), he is exploring the “souci de soi” (επιμέλεια ηεαυτου) in Montaigne, Pascal, Nietzsche, and…Foucault.

RECENT GRADUATE COURSES

FR 597: L’écriture de soi: Montaigne et la philo-selfie

FR 597: Michel Foucault: des pensées “en marche

FR 597: Montaigne Reads Foucault: Hermeneutics of Modernity

FR 597: Michel Foucault: Archeology, Genealogy, Ethics

FR 535: Cultural Performances: Theories and Practices

FR 571: Literary Theory and Criticism

FR 533: Baroque Episteme. 17th-Century French Literature and Intellectual History

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- “Illusions comiques et illusions optiques: l’œil baroque," Études romanes, 40, 2 (2019): 143-158.

- Foucault l’intempestif. Paris, Hermann, coll. “Philosophie”, 2019.

- “Philosopher (d’) après Foucault,” Philosophie, science et société, March, 2019. https://philosciences.com/philosophie-generale/la-philosophie-et-sa-critique/375-philosopher-foucault.

- “Vanités: une invitation à jouir et à se réjouir?,” Quêtes littéraires, 8 (2019): 9-20.

- “Épistémologie du regard au seuil de la modernité”, Europe, 96, 1069, (mai 2018), 295-312.

- “Seuils et discontinuités chez Michel Foucault: vers un sujet ‘post-cartésien’ ?,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 21, 4 (2018): 389-97.

- “Foucault archéologue: généalogie d’un concept,” Implications Philosophiques, October 2017, http://www.implications-philosophiques.org/implications-epistemologiques/foucault-archeologue-genealogie-dun-concept/  

- Jean de Rotrou: bibliographie critique. openpublishing.psu.edu/rotrou  2017

Epistémè baroque: le mot et la chose. Paris: Hermann, coll. "Savoirs Lettres", 2013.

- “Foucault et le classicisme: les œillères de l’histoire (littéraire),” Fabula-LHT(Littérature, histoire, théorie), 11, (online, Novembre 2013)

- “Pratique théorique et jouissance théâtrale,” Poétique, 174  (2013): 189-213

- “Réflexions sur l’épistémè foucaldienne,” Cahiers Philosophiques, 130 (2012): 39-50

- “Theatrum mundi: l’usage des mirages,” Le Magazine Littéraire, 499 (2010): 66-8

- “Réflexions sur la réflexivité théâtrale,” L’Annuaire Théâtral, 45 (2010): 119-35