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Joseph Joubert

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II

Name: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II
Author: Joseph Joubert

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French

p. 6815

Donc, mysticité philosophique et quasi-physiologique : fausse et déplaisante mysticité.

Tout cela, c’est peindre les viscères, comme Zumbo. Ne peignons pas les viscères humaines. Ni même les entrailles de rien, quoique les Latins disent : e visceribus rei.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II: YEAR 1814

p. 6816

Thus, philosophical and quasi-physiological mystical quality: false and displeasing mystical quality.

All this is painting the viscera, like Zumbo. Let us not paint human viscera. Nor even the entrails of anything, although the Latins say: from the entrails of the thing.

T99.The nominal conclusion, quasi qualification and repeated mysticité remain. The statement is not expanded into a clinical or doctrinal classification.

T219.Two separately indented paragraphs remain under one separator. The first is a nominal formulation with the literal quasi-physiologique hyphen and colon. The second retains the named comparison, negative imperative, Ni même fragment and concessive clause. The source literally reads viscères humaines with the feminine ending; it is not silently normalized to a different agreement. E visceribus rei. is italic through the terminal period, with an actual lower-case initial e. The preceding Latins disent : stays roman. Zumbo and the unexpanded Latin are preserved without importing an allusion. The folded et and les forms remain qualified identifiable in color.

T100.The repeated painting/viscera relations, exhortation, nor even fragment and concessive Latin pointer remain. From the entrails of the thing is freshly translated from e visceribus rei; thing leaves the practical matter sense available. The source’s feminine agreement in viscères humaines has no gender-marked counterpart in human viscera and is not emended in French. The complete Latin phrase and its English counterpart are italic through the period. The text names Zumbo but does not establish an internal navigation target or a particular work.

About This Reading Edition

Joubert’s notebooks return to the work of thinking and writing, the demands of friendship, and questions of faith, beauty and conduct. This edition pairs the French with a new English translation, preserving the order of the chosen source and the unfinished character of its fragments. Dates and source references allow readers to follow a thought through time or return to its printed context.

Historical Text and Translation

The French text follows André Beaunier’s 1938 edition of Les Carnets de Joseph Joubert, published by Gallimard from Joubert’s autograph manuscripts. Volume II continues the notebooks and includes seventy undated pieces. French and English are aligned paragraph by paragraph, retaining the source order, printed dates and page references so readers can return to the facsimile.

About Diotimos Editions

Diotimos Editions prepared this new English translation directly from the French, preserving Joubert’s distinctions, recurring images, ambiguities and unfinished thoughts. Translator’s notes clarify wording, references and uncertain readings: Essential keeps notes that help explain a passage, while All includes technical detail. Annotations from the 1938 source edition remain distinct from the new translator’s notes.

Rights

The linked facsimile records identify the French source as public domain in the United States. The new English translation and editorial notes are © 2026 Diotimos, with source annotations and new editorial contributions credited separately. This edition pairs the complete French notebooks with an independent English translation, preserving the distinction between Joubert’s text and its accompanying notes.