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AbstractIt remains unclear whether Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) was a writer or a philosopher. Both reference dictionaries and his house in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne label him a “philosopher”, yet he belongs to no given school of philosophical thought, while being published as part of a literary collection. Neither is he a “writer”, though, at least not in the understood meaning of the word. Indeed, he toyed for a while with a narrative style before casting it far away prior to writing his introspective Carnets as a recluse listening to the silence of novels, through which he launched unwittingly a very modern genre: fragmentary prose. On the eve of literary modernity, Joseph Joubert's strange output is a child of both philosophy and literature. His writings deny us the story, and his fragmentary denial is an attempt to raise our philosophical awareness, somewhat following in Plato's footsteps in foregoing fables.
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