Abstract
Paul Hoffman : female beauty according to Diderot. On this question, Diderot's thought oscillated between a naturalistic interpretation and a moralising stance. In many texts the perception of female beauty is associated with moral ideas and emotions. The key concept of rapport, discussed here, allows him to reconcile judgements of reality and value. Female beauty is the sign of aptitude for the tasks of femininity, and a significant form, a regularity of sense. The final paradox is that women's beauty both announces a being in harmony with its function and implies that it has been preserved from life. The ideal is transposed from the model to the experience itself.
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