
@article{ref1,
title="The linguistic terror in France according to Jean Paulhan and Jean-Paul Sartre",
journal="Journal of the history of ideas",
year="2022",
author="Doering, Jonathan",
volume="83",
number="4",
pages="555-578",
abstract="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 &quot;Rhetoric&quot; and &quot;Terror.&quot; 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 &quot;linguistic turn&quot; 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 &quot;constellation across Europe,&quot; strove to investigate &quot;language as such.&quot; 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>",
language="en",
issn="0022-5037",
doi="10.1353/jhi.2022.0037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0037"
}