Paper's abstract

Jean-Marc Trigeaud, The myth of the Hero and the aesthetic of Justice
Analysing myths may reach a metaphysical scope, rather than a socio- or psycho-historical one. One can then deal with the figure of the hero that characterises it best while trying to keep it from being disparaged as it never ceased to be. For it is effectively an aesthetic of the just that it carries, through the constant examples of cultural and above all literary and epic creation. This aesthetic is not subjectivist, nor formalist, nor genericist, but rather objectivist, realistic and universalist, it is an aesthetic of the content and the object, of the feeling and of the idea of justice. Out of it comes a primate of the singular human being often caught in the tragic precariousness of its condition and of which justice, being destined to become right and law, requires it protected in the moral and corporal totality of its meaning.

Key Words : myth, hero, aesthetic, universalism, human, justice
t. 40, 1995 : p. 34-55

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