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Figures publiques : l'invention de la célébrité 1750-1850
Lilti, Antoine[Paris] : Fayard, c2014."Bien avant le cinéma, la presse à scandale et la télévision, les mécanismes de la célébrité se sont développés dans l'Europe des Lumières, puis épanouis à l'époque romantique sur les deux rives de l'Atlantique. Des écrivains comme Voltaire, des comédiens comme Garrick, des musiciens comme Liszt furent de véritables célébrités, suscitant la curiosité et l'attachement passionné de leurs "fans". À Paris comme à Londres, puis à Berlin et New York, l'essor de la presse, les nouvelles techniques publicitaires et la commercialisation des loisirs entraînèrent une profonde transformation de la visibilité des personnes célèbres. On pouvait désormais acheter le portrait de chanteurs d'opéra et la biographie de courtisanes, dont les vies privées devenaient un spectacle public. La politique ne resta pas à l'écart de ce bouleversement culturel : Marie-Antoinette comme George Washington ou Napoléon furent les témoins d'un monde politique transformé par les nouvelles exigences de la célébrité. Lorsque le peuple surgit sur la scène révolutionnaire, il ne suffit plus d'être légitime, il importe désormais d'être populaire. À travers cette histoire de la célébrité, Antoine Lilti retrace les profondes mutations de la société des Lumières et révèle les ambivalences de l'espace public. La trajectoire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau en témoigne de façon exemplaire. Écrivain célèbre et adulé, celui-ci finit pourtant par maudire les effets de sa "funeste célébrité", miné par le sentiment d'être devenu une figure publique que chacun pouvait façonner à sa guise. À la fois désirée et dénoncée, la célébrité apparaît comme la forme moderne du prestige personnel, adaptée aux sociétés démocratiques et médiatiques, comme la gloire était celle des sociétés aristocratiques. C'est pourtant une grandeur toujours contestée, dont l'histoire éclaire les contradictions de notre modernité."--P. [4] of cover.
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The invention of celebrity : 1750-1850
Lilti, AntoineEnglish edition. - Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]"Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this illuminating new book cultural historian Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their "fans." In Paris as in London, in Berlin as in New York, the rise of the press, new advertising techniques and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate, it was crucial to be popular too. Lilti retraces the profound social upheaval precipitated by the rise of celebrity and explores the ambivalence felt towards this new phenomenon. Jean Jacques Rousseau's career is an exemplary case. A celebrated and adulated writer, Rousseau ended up cursing the effects of his "disastrous celebrity," marred by the feeling that he had become a public figure whom people everywhere could fashion as they wished. Both sought after and denounced, celebrity evolved as the modern form of personal prestige, assuming the role that glory played in the aristocratic world in a new age of democracy and evolving forms of media. To this day, it is of course a type of glory whose value is still disputed. Lilti's perceptive history uncovers the birth of celebrity in the 18th century, while at the same time shining valuable light on the continuing importance of celebrity in today?s world"--Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick, and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their fans. The rise of the press, new advertising techniques, and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington, and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate; it was crucial to be popular too. Lilti retraces the profound social upheaval precipitated by the rise of celebrity and explores the ambivalence felt toward this new phenomenon. Both sought after and denounced, celebrity evolved as the modern form of personal prestige, assuming the role that glory played in the aristocratic world in a new age of democracy and evolving forms of media. While uncovering the birth of celebrity in the eighteenth century, Lilti's perceptive history at the same time shines light on the continuing importance of this phenomenon in today s world.
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Actualité des Lumières : une histoire plurielle
Lilti, Antoine[Paris] : Fayard ; [Paris] : Collège de France, [2023]"Les Lumières ne désignent pas seulement un mouvement intellectuel ancré dans le XVIIIe siècle européen ou une période historique révolue. Elles renvoient aussi à un héritage philosophique et politique toujours actuel. On ne se contente pas de les étudier, on s'en réclame ou on les critique. Comment penser cette actualité des Lumières ? En s'appuyant sur les acquis récents de l'historiographie, Antoine Lilti propose de concevoir les Lumières comme un espace de débat critique sur la modernité et un idéal d'émancipation par le savoir. Il esquisse un programme de recherches comparées sur les "Lumières multiples" et leurs héritages dans différents espaces culturels."--Page 4 of cover.
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