TY - JOUR TI - Against All Odds. A Revolutionary Dandy Manifesto AU - Kociubińska, Edyta TI - Against All Odds. A Revolutionary Dandy Manifesto AB - The paper aims to show a dandy as a performer who acts as if he was guided by a kind of a revolutionary manifesto, which we attempt to recreate by referring to essays of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Lemaître or Oscar Wilde. The dandy’s rebellion against the outside world consists in the creation of his own personality, as well as in the rejection of the rudimentary uniformity and the duty of utility. He seeks to give his life an exceptional character, his unique goal is to serve the highest value: the Beauty. His responsibility is to impress his audience and not to let himself be amazed, as he cannot disclose his feelings and he has to adopt an impenetrable attitude, guided by the constant urge of staging his life, as a form of protection against the surrounding world, malevolent and rude. VL - 2018 IS - Numéro 15 La (r)évolution PY - 2018 SN - 2300-4681 C1 - 2353-8953 SP - 127 EP - 138 DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.18.017.9132 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/contre-tout-contre-le-manifeste-revolutionnaire-du-dandy KW - dandyism KW - revolution KW - provocation KW - beauty KW - art