35 research outputs found
The development of the work and thought of Emmanuel Mounier : a study in ideology
No full textThis study sets out to explain the importance of Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950), taking it to be ideological, that is, operating simultaneously on a social and a conceptual level. It therefore stresses economic, social, political and cultural forces in addition to personal and philosophical ones. It attempts to show the processes involved in the creation of an ideology and an ideologist, and the factors governing their relationship.
Chapter one examines Mounier's formation as a member of the catholic intellectual élite, tracing his early studies, experiences and patrons in Grenoble and Paris.
Chapter two analyses the situation and events which led to the foundation of the review Esprit, which Mounier directed until his death, his first attempts to formulate a political ideology and his response to the political and social crises of the 1930's.
Chapter three traces the philosophical roots and evolution of Mounier's personalism, showing its function as an intellectual matrix and method of analysis.
Chapter four shows Mounier's reactions to the war, his activities under the Vichy regime and his place in the Resistance, emphasising the importance of this period for his later ideological position.
Chapter five studies Mounier's initial aspirations to establish personalism as a major political ideology of liberated France, and traces the erosion and eventual collapse of his hopes to the point where his political position became scarcely tenable.
Chapter six examines Mounier's confrontations with existentialism and Marxism in his attempts to maintain and extend the ideological power of personalism and, with it, catholicism. It also critically assesses Mounier's main post-war philosophical works.
The conclusion analyses the contradictions implicit in Mounier's work and his relative success and failure as an ideologist.
The bibliography includes a full list of Mounier's known works
The German Occupation in recent French fiction : an analysis of the literary “mode retro”
No full textThis thesis attempts to analyse and characterise the mode rétro, the remarkable renewal of interest in the German Occupation of France, which is coloured by an extensive re-evaluation of the period's significance. An introduction places this fashion in its literary, social and historical context, revealing how, from 1940 to 1969, a collective and predominantly Gaullist 'myth' of the Resistance became established, with the result that the national response to invasion was accepted to be one of wide-spread heroism and revolt. Part I studies the reaction to such résistancialisme, showing how this orthodox interpretation of events was undermined and, for many, discredited, and offering explanations of the timing and direction of the new view. Part II focuses on the fiction, memoirs, autobiographies and biographies of the younger authors, those who have no direct adult experience of the années noires. It is suggested that their obvious obsession with absent parent-figures reflects their awareness that the past has been misrepresented and their heritage rendered problematic. Their sole means of escape from this predicament, their only source of emotional relief is seen to lie in the creation of a personal account of the early 1940s running contrary to the prevalent orthodoxy, the fabrication of a 'counter-myth'. It is thus the notion of myth which links the various sections of the survey, and so gives the thesis its overall unity
Revue GRASPE/GRASPE Review. Réflexions sur l'avenir de la Service Publique Européenne/Reflections on the future of the European civil service. GRASPE Cahier No 6, fevrier 2005
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Revue GRASPE/GRASPE Review. Réflexions sur l'avenir de la Service Publique Européenne/Reflections on the future of the European civil service. GRASPE Cahier No 19, fevrier 2012
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Decentralization Issues in Post-Conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (preliminary draft)
No full textThe main advantage of decentralization over centralized government is its informational superiority. Local service delivery can then be tailored to the needs and preferences of the citizens. This paper analyses if this assertion, that holds for developed countries, is also valid in the case of a post-conflict low-income country. Since there is no panacea for successful decentralization, it then confronts theory with the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Finally the author assesses the new law on decentralization in this country.
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No full textThe liability attached to the supply of containers by a maritime carrier: A comparative analysis of the French decsion M/V Matisse Coiur D'Appel D'aix-en-Provence 2EME Chambre - 15 Fevrier 2007
No full textThis article is based on a French Court decision about the legal nature of the contract of supply of containers. The author analyses the French Court's legal treatment of the contract for the supply of a shipping container and discusses the possible consequences of such a treatment. Subsequently to this, the author argues that, although legally understandable, the solution chosen by the French court is not necessarily the most appropriate particularly in the context of international trade and in regards of the necessary unification of that area of the law. This analysis is reached on the basis of a comparative law approach and by reference to the treatment of similar issue in various common law jurisdictions.Pierre-Jean Bordahand
Ideologised foreign policy and the pragmatic rationale: The case of Algeria under Houari Boumedienne, 1965-1978.
No full textThe role of ideology in foreign policy making and implementation has been a subject of study by international relations specialists, especially during the period of the Cold War. The study of Algerian foreign policy under President Houari Boumedienne rule (1965-1978) makes a good
case study because of the particular role that ideology played in the making and implementation of foreign policy during this period. Other studies on Algeria's foreign policy have not directly addressed ideology and pragmatism as themes. The majority of these studies covered only parts
or aspects of this period, not taking it as a subject of their total focus.
This study investigates the role ideology has played in the making and implementation of Algeria's foreign policy under President Houari Boumedienne's regime (1965-1978). It assesses the factors behind the ideological stances of the regime as well as the underlying causes behind the pragmatic foreign policy postures that the leadership adopted at that time.
The study is divided into nine chapters. Chapter one presents a critical review of literature and outlines the research methodology adopted. Chapter two traces the historical background of the pre-Boumediennist era. Chapter three concentrates on the study of the state-level of analysis, it focuses on the domestic aspects of the Algerian decision-making process and seeks to give an
account of the ideological influences on Algeria's economic policy. Chapter four looks into President Houari Boumedienne's policy-making process towards the Maghrib. Chapter five is devoted to Algeria's position on inter-Arab politics, including the Palestinian Question. Chapter
six is a thorough analysis of Algeria's oil diplomacy. Chapters seven and eight examine Algeria's interaction with the Third World and its posture between East and West, respectively. The last chapter provides us with an insight into the impact of ideology on Boumedienne himself and on his decision making. This study believes that President Houari Boumedienne's ideological proclamations and pragmatic motivations were blurred. Although some policy
actions appeared to be ideologically motivated, they were, in fact, taken because they were considered to be in the best interest of the state and the regime in power.
The study is based on a documentary analysis of available material in Arabic, French and English. This has been supplemented with a number of interviews with personalities who were close to President Houari Boumedienne
Psychoanalysis and the law beyond the Oedipus : a study in legal fictions.
No full textPhDThe present thesis considers the function of law in the political from the perspective
of psychoanalysis, a discipline which foregrounds the subject.
Drawing from the Lacanian contributions to psychoanalytic theory, I begin by
assessing the validity of the Oedipal hypothesis for the purposes of understanding the
dynamics of collective life.
My analysis of civilisation in psychoanalytic terms will expose the subject as the seat of
'certain key phenomena which, despite their deeply intimate character, play themselves
out in the field of law, in the confines of the institution, or again in the political realm:
essentially, culpability, belief and love.
I will argue that, although these phenomena irretrievably obstruct the rational
unfolding of discourse, they also impel the precipitation of the subject's attachment to
the political, and permit the consolidation thereof through the medium of
transference.
Yet, and in contradistinction to other strands of psychoanalytic jurisprudence, in this
work psychoanalysis will be used neither as an hermeneutic tool nor as an analogical
model. Indeed, my purpose is to evidence the existence of a certain continuity
between the unconscious as discourse and the political order.
This continuity between the unconscious and the political will be presented in terms
of the logic of exception, which structures the subject's relation to language, and
which Lacan identified as the structural core of the Oedipus complex.
I will then apply Lacan's hypothesis of the exceptional structure of discourse to the
theories of three political thinkers, chosen for the distinctness of their approach:
Legendre, Bentham and Foucault.
Finally, I will argue for the dispensability of the function of the Ideal, parasitic
occupier of what should remain the structurally `empty' place of exception
