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Marc Angenot (born
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, 1941) is a Belgian-Canadian social theorist, historian of ideas and literary critic. He is a professor of French literature at
McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
,
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, and holder of the
James McGill James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University, Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal ...
Chair of Social Discourse Theory there. He is a leading exponent of the sociocritical approach to literature.


Education

He studied at the
Free University of Brussels University of Brussels may refer to several institutions in Brussels, Belgium: Current institutions * Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking university established as a separate entity in 1970 *Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a D ...
(now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) () is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of the five universities officially recognised by the Flemish Community, Flemish gov ...
) from 1959 to 1967. His dissertation on the
rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
of
surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...
placed him in the line of
Chaïm Perelman Chaïm Perelman (born Henio (or Henri) Perelman; sometimes referred to mistakenly as Charles Perelman) (20 May 1912, Warsaw – 22 January 1984, Brussels) was a Polish-born philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Bru ...
, and the Groupe Mu of the
University of Liège The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...
.


Social discourse and sociocritique

Along with Claude Duchet, Pierre V. Zima, Jacques Leenhardt,
André Belleau André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French language, French-s ...
,
Jacques Dubois Jacques Dubois ( Latinised as Jacobus Sylvius; 1478 – 14 January 1555) was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sy ...
and
Régine Robin Régine Robin (born as Rivka Ajzersztejn; 10 December 1939 – 3 February 2021) was a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the socio ...
, Angenot made use of the sociological approach to texts. His influences were
Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence i ...
, the
Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), dur ...
, and
Mikhail Bakhtin Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin ( ; rus, Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, , mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theor ...
. He favoured the
discourse Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. ...
concept over the structuralist position on "text", of
Gérard Genette Gérard Genette (7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of ''bricolage ...
and
Tzvetan Todorov Tzvetan Todorov (; ; bg, Цветан Тодоров; 1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian- French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which ...
. His proposal to study the whole array of "social discourse" in a given state of society (''1889: Un état du discours social'', 1989) was a vast interdisciplinary project concerning the interdiscursive construction of society.


Discursive history

In parallel, Angenot developed "discursive history". Here he examined the
grand narrative A metanarrative (also meta-narrative and grand narrative; french: métarécit) is a narrative ''about'' narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet ...
s, but as a
modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...
, rather than
postmodernist Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...
. He has been concerned with the nineteenth century, and representative thinkers around
revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...
and social struggles:
Auguste Comte Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense ...
, Saint-Simon,
Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (;; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in ...
,
Étienne Cabet Étienne Cabet (; January 1, 1788 – November 9, 1856) was a French philosophy, French philosopher and utopian socialist who founded the Icarians, Icarian movement. Cabet became the most popular socialist advocate of his day, with a special appe ...
,
Pierre Leroux Pierre Henri Leroux (7 April 1797 – 12 April 1871), was a French philosopher and political economist. He was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan. Life His education was interrupted by the death of his father, which com ...
,
Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, , ; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979) 959 "The Three Anticapitalistic Movements". ''European Social ...
, the Belgian Hippolyte Colins,
Jules Guesde Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (; 11 November 1845 – 28 July 1922) was a French socialist journalist and politician. Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx. Shortly before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter ...
,
Georges Sorel Georges Eugène Sorel (; ; 2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and p ...
, and others. His conclusions are on the complexities and breaks within this tradition of discourse.


Rhetoric

Angenot also published a number of books in rhetoric and argumentation, among which ''La Parole pamphlétaire'' in 1982, ''Rhétorique de l'anti-socialisme'' in 2004, and a treatise of "antilogical" rhetoric, ''Dialogues de sourds: Traité de rhétorique antilogique'' in 2008.


Publications

* ''Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature'', Montréal: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1975. * ''Les Champions des Femmes. Examen du discours sur la supériorité des femmes'', 1400–1800. Montréal : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1977. * ''La Parole pamphlétaire. Contribution à la typologie des discours modernes''. Paris, Payot, 1982, 416 p. (Prix Biguet 1983 de l'
Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
). * ''Critique de la raison sémiotique. Fragment avec pin up''. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1985, 134 p. Translated as: ''Critique of Semiotic Reason''. With an Introduction by Marie-Christine Leps. New York, Toronto & Ottawa: Legas, 1994. (Collection « Language, Media, and Education Studies », # 2). * ''Ce que l'on dit des Juifs en 1889''. Préface de
Madeleine Rebérioux Madeleine Rebérioux (8 September 1920, Chambéry, Savoie – 7 February 2005, Paris) was a French historian whose specialty was the French Third Republic. She is also a historian of the Labour movement. Life She was a professor at Paris-VIII ...
. Paris, Presses de l'Université de Vincennes, 1989. (Collection « Culture et Société »). * ''Le Cru et le faisandé: sexe, discours social et littérature à la Belle Époque''. Bruxelles: Labor, 1986, 202 p. (Collection « Archives du futur »). * ''Mille huit cent quatre-vingt-neuf: un état du discours social''. Montréal: Éditions du Préambule, 1989, 1,176 p. * ''Le Centenaire de la Révolution''. Paris: La Documentation française, 1989. (Collection «Les Médias et l'Événement») * ''Topographie du socialisme français, 1889–1890''. Montréal: 1991. * ''L'Œuvre poétique du Savon du Congo''. Paris: Éditions des Cendres, 1992. * ''L'Utopie collectiviste. Le Grand récit socialiste sous la Deuxième Internationale''. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993. * ''La Propagande socialiste: six essais d'analyse du discours''. Montréal: Éditions Balzac, 1996. * ''"Un Juif trahira" : l'espionnage militaire dans la propagande antisémitique 1884–1894''. Montréal: CIADEST, 1994. Rpt. Montreal, 2003. * ''Les idéologies du ressentiment''. Essai. Montréal: XYZ Éditeur, 1996. (Prix « Spirale » de l’Essai 1996). * ''La Critique au service de la révolution''. Leuven: Peeters & Paris: Vrin, 2000. * ''La démocratie c'est le mal'', Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003. * ''Antimilitarisme, idéologie et utopie'', Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003. * ''Rhétorique de l'anti-socialisme'', Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2004. * ''Le Marxisme dans les Grands récits'', Paris-Québec, L'Harmattan-PUL, 2005. * ''Dialogues de sourds: traité de rhétorique antilogique'', Paris, Mille et une nuits/Fayard, 2008. * ''Vivre dans l'histoire au 20e siècle'', Montréal, Discours social, 2008. * ''Gnose et millénarisme ; deux concepts pour le vingtième siècle'', Montréal, Discours social, 2008. * ''En quoi sommes-nous encore pieux'', Presses de l'Université Laval, 2009. * ''L'immunité française envers le fascisme'', Montréal: Discours social, 2009. * ''El discurso social'', Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2010. * ''L'histoire des idées'', Liège: PUL, 2014. * ''Fascisme, totalitarisme, religion séculière: trois concepts pour le 20e siècle.'' Montréal, Discours social, 2014–2015. 4 volumes. * ''O discurso social e as retòricas da incompreensao.'' São Carlos : Edufscar, 2015. * '' Robespierre et l'art du portrait''. Montréal: Discours social, 2016.


Awards and honours

* 1985 – Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
* 1987 – Killam Fellowship (
Canada Council The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal i ...
) * 1996 – Prix André-Laurendeau * 1996 – Prix Spirale Eva-Le-Grand * 2005 –
Prix Léon-Gérin The Prix Léon-Gérin is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, which "goes to researchers in one of the social sciences". It is named in honour of Léon Gérin. Winners See also * List of social sciences aw ...


References

* ''Marc Angenot and the Scandal of History'', special issue of the ''Yale Journal of Criticism'', 2004, Vol. 17, Number 2


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