Alterity, Singularity an Anthropological Construction

Abstract

My study is structured around three main movements: the first one gathers some of the meanings of the formula "Je est un autre", to sketch out a picture of alterity and singularity in Rimbaud's work: the second one connects the notion of "language utopia" to the idea of "anthropological construction", and it includes the analysis of two poems by Rimbaud; the third one picks up on topics from the previous movements, and argues that alterity is a condition for the possibility of understanding poetry (or literature) as a historical and transhistorical configuration of the human.