Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu

The epistemological debates are far from being serene in the 1900s. The traumatic impact of the sciences of the nature putting a starting point in the human story or the extrapolations inherent to the development of the astronomy, increasing the dimensions of the universe up to the absurd, developed...

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Main Author: Sandrine Schiano
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Language:fra
Published: Université Gustave Eiffel 2018-06-01
Series:ReS Futurae
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/resf/1323
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description The epistemological debates are far from being serene in the 1900s. The traumatic impact of the sciences of the nature putting a starting point in the human story or the extrapolations inherent to the development of the astronomy, increasing the dimensions of the universe up to the absurd, developed a climate of ideas with pessimistic consonances and crepuscular values. Maurice Renard is suspicious in his tales when he describes and examines the stability of the species and the human race. If Le Docteur Lerne (1908) knocks down the biological and physiological laws of the Creation in "wonderful hypotheses", Le Péril bleu (1910) shows the limits of a human knowledge reduced to a pure anthropocentric vision. The "wonderful hypotheses" of the science for Maurice Renard reveal the "unforeseen and possible consequences" of the scientific debates of his time, and particularly those resulting from the darwinism.
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Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
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scientific marvelous
Renard (Maurice)
fin de siècle
Darwin (Charles)
darwinism
natural sciences
title Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
title_full Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
title_fullStr Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
title_full_unstemmed Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
title_short Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu
title_sort maurice renard et la science en recit au temps du docteur lerne et du peril bleu
topic scientific marvelous
Renard (Maurice)
fin de siècle
Darwin (Charles)
darwinism
natural sciences
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