TY - JOUR
TI - Destiny and designs of life in Louis Bouilhet’s Les Fossiles
AU - Sukiennicka, Marta
TI - Destiny and designs of life in Louis Bouilhet’s Les Fossiles
AB - In the poem Les Fossiles (1854), Louis Bouilhet tells the story of the evolution of life. Inspired by various naturalists, he imagines the emergence of life on Earth, the birth of species, and their extinction followed by the emergence of new forms of life. The destiny of humankind is subordinate to this law of nature: humans will be supplanted by more perfect beings. The purpose of this article is to consider the influence of Charles Bonnet's palingenetic philosophy on Bouilhet from the perspective of epistemocritical methodology, allowing the identification of epistemological transfers between the work of the naturalist and that of the poet.
VL - 2023
IS - Numéro 34
PY - 2023
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 155
EP - 170
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.23.016.17933
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/destin-et-desseins-du-vivant-dans-les-fossiles-de-louis-bouilhet
KW - Louis Bouilhet
KW - Georges Cuvier
KW - Charles Bonnet
KW - paléontologie
KW - palingénésie
KW - fin de l’homme