Maren, Louis

He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Sorbonne ( 1953 ). He was a cultural adviser to the French Embassy in Turkey ( 1961 - 1964 ), director of the French Institute in London ( 1964 - 1967 ). He taught at the University of Paris-Nanterre ( 1967 - 1970 ), at the University of San Diego ( 1970 - 1974 ), Johns Hopkins University ( Baltimore , 1974 - 1977 ), from 1978 - at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (Paris), since 1987 - Director of the Center for Art and Language Studies.

Maren himself designated the area of ​​his work as the history of semiotic systems, but the main subject of his interest was the problems of representing the everyday in public life, writing, politics, art - signs of power, passion, torment, ecstasy and rhetorical statements that operate on them. The material on which Maren worked was the Gospels , Por-Royal grammar, paintings by Caravaggio , Poussin , Philippe de Champaign , texts by Ignatius Loyola , Montaigne , Pascal , Rousseau , Stendhal , Borges , Roland Barth and others.

During his life, authoritative for a narrow circle of friends and associates - Derrida , Lyotard , M. de Serto , J. Damis - over time, Maren, whose works have been translated into the main European languages ​​today, had a significant impact on the theory and practice of interpretation in the humanities and social sciences: in the history of art - on D. Arras , who defended his dissertation under his leadership, in the sociology of literature - on Helen Merlin-Kazhman . In Russia, his ideas are actively developed by M. Yampolsky .

• Études sémiologiques: Ecritures, peintures ( 1971 , reprint 2005 )
• Sémiotique de la Passion, topiques et figures ( 1972 )
• Le récit évangélique ( 1972 , co-authored by C. Chabrol)
• Utopiques: jeux d'espaces ( 1973 )
• La Critique du discours ( 1975 )
• Détruire la peinture ( 1977 )
• Le récit est un piège ( 1978 )
• Le Portrait du roi ( 1981 )
• La Voix excommuniée. Essais de mémoire ( 1981 )
• La Parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques ( 1986 )
• Jean-Charles Blais, du figurable en peinture ( 1988 )
• Opacité de la peinture. Essais sur la représentation en Quattrocento ( 1989 )
• Lectures traversières ( 1992 )
• De la représentation ( 1993 )
• Des pouvoirs de l'image ( 1993 )
• Philippe de Champaigne, ou, La présence cachée ( 1995 )
• Pascal et Port-Royal ( 1997 )
• De l'entretien ( 1997 )
• Sublime Poussin ( 1998 )
• L'écriture de soi ( 1999 )
• Politiques de la représentation ( 2005 )

• Utopia maps // Today, 1995, No. 233, December 8
• The tomb of the subject as a subject of painting // Art Journal, 1996, No. 12
• About the Tower of Babel, language and history (article abstract)

• Hommages à Louis Marin / Alain J.-J. Cohen, Isabella Pezzini, eds. Urbino: Università di Urbino, 1995
• Murray Th. Mimesis, masochism, & mime: the politics of theatricality in contemporary French thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press , 1997
• Signes, histoire, fictions: Autour de Louis Marin / Frédéric Pousin, Sylvie Robic, eds. Paris: Arguments, 2003
• Beyer V. Das Bild ist der König: Repräsentation nach Louis Marin. Paderborn; München: Fink, 2005

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