College de france cours antoine compagnon biography
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Teaching in France and Abroad (hors-les-murs)
1One of the Collège de France's missions is to promote French research and thought abroad, and to participate in intellectual debates on major world issues. The institution therefore participates in international exchange through its teaching and the dissemination of knowledge, as well as through the research programmes involving its Chairs and laboratories. The fact that one fifth of the professors are currently from abroad, confirms the Collège de France’s widening research and education policy.
2This policy of international openness translates into:
3• Collège de France professors’ teaching missions abroad
4• Lectures and lecture series by visiting professors
5• Junior Visiting Researchers scheme
6• Lecture series and symposia abroad
7• Internet broadcasts
8To encourage the dissemination of their teaching abroad, the Collège de France professors have the possibility of relocating up to a third of their annual teaching. During the academic year 2011/2012, 25 teaching missions were located abroad.
9In view of this mobility, Chairs to host Collège de France professors have been created in a number of institutions abroad (each Chair receives two to three professors a year, who, in theory, give two to three hours of lectur
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Antoine Compagnon, what is the difference between Proust and the other famous French writers?
La Recherche is a monument because it is on themes that still and will always be of concern to all of us: love, death, mourning, sexuality, all types of sexuality, the arts, music, painting, literature. Everything is in Proust, but also it’s comic.
Why did you dedicate so much time to Baudelaire?
Baudelaire is another giant. It’s probably the most important collection of poetry nowadays. It was not always the case, but it’s the one that most French students have studied and that they know, and I think deservedly. A bit like Proust, Baudelaire has the advantage of being a modernist writer but still having this link with the tradition of poetry. What I love about Baudelaire is both the respect for the Alexandrine poetic metre and what he does with it. It’s not free verse, but it’s really the limit of what can be done with the Alexandrine.
In 2005 you published your very successful book Les Antimodernes. Can you tell me about this?
As I just described above, Baudelaire is a modernist, the inventor of what we call in French modernité and at the same time Baudelaire is someone who resists progress, photography, the big city, the boulevard.