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Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Pascal and Wittgenstein : common epistemological elements in the Pensées and On certainty.
No full textThe guiding intuition behind this disquisition is that Blaise Pascal and Ludwig Wittgenstein are similar philosophers with similar philosophies. This intuition is not argued in its entirety here. Instead, the author seeks to establish a limited version of this intuition as his thesis; viz., that Wittgenstein and Pascal share six elements of their theories of knowledge. The author executes a demonstration of this thesis by contrasting Wittgenstein's epistemology with G. E. Moore's and contrasting Pascal's epistemology with Rene Descartes'. By showing that Wittgenstein's epistemology contrasts with G. E. Moore's in the same way that Pascal's epistemology contrasts with Descartes', the author is able to conclude that Wittgenstein's theory of knowledge is indeed similar to Pascal's with respect to the six elements mentioned above
Pascal and Wittgenstein : common epistemological elements in the Pensées and On certainty.
No full textThe guiding intuition behind this disquisition is that Blaise Pascal and Ludwig Wittgenstein are similar philosophers with similar philosophies. This intuition is not argued in its entirety here. Instead, the author seeks to establish a limited version of this intuition as his thesis; viz., that Wittgenstein and Pascal share six elements of their theories of knowledge. The author executes a demonstration of this thesis by contrasting Wittgenstein's epistemology with G. E. Moore's and contrasting Pascal's epistemology with Rene Descartes'. By showing that Wittgenstein's epistemology contrasts with G. E. Moore's in the same way that Pascal's epistemology contrasts with Descartes', the author is able to conclude that Wittgenstein's theory of knowledge is indeed similar to Pascal's with respect to the six elements mentioned above
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
Measurement of the D+/- production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
No full textThe asymmetry in the production cross-section \sigma of D+/- mesons, A_P = (\sigma(D+) - \sigma(D-))/(\sigma(D+) + \sigma(D-)), is measured in bins of pseudorapidity \eta and transverse momentum p_T within the acceptance of the LHCb detector. The result is obtained with a sample of D+ -> K_S pi+ decays corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb^-1, collected in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. When integrated over the kinematic range 2.0 K_S pi+ decay is negligible. No significant dependence on \eta or p_T is observed
Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0 -> J/ψ KS0 decays
No full textThis Letter reports a measurement of the CP violation observables SJ/ψK0S and CJ/ψK0S in the decay channel B0→J/ψK0S performed with 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The fit to the data yields SJ/ψK0S=0.73±0.07(stat)±0.04(syst) and CJ/ψK0S=0.03±0.09(stat)±0.01(syst). Both values are consistent with the current world averages and within
expectations from the Standard Model
First observation of Bs → J/ψf0(980) decays
No full textUsing data collected with the LHCb detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, the hadronic decay is observed. This CP eigenstate mode could be used to measure mixing-induced CP violation in the system. Using a fit to the π+π− mass spectrum with interfering resonances gives . In the interval ±90 MeV around 980 MeV, corresponding to approximately two full f0 widths we also find , where in both cases the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively
Lantana nivea Vent., Jard. Malmaison
No full text37. Lantana nivea Vent., Jard. Malmaison 1: tab. 8. 1803. Lectotypus (designated here): [BRAZIL]: Hort. Malmaison, Ventenat s.n. (G [G00341488]!; isolecto-: G [G00341487]!). Notes. – Ventenat stated that he had received material of this plant from gardens in the East Indies but it seems clear that the plant originated in southern Brazil (Sanders, 2006). The latter author did not locate the holotype and designated the colour copper engraving in Ventenat’s Jardin de Malmaison (1803: tab. 8) as the lectotype and also designated as the epitype a plant cultivated in Paris held at C (Siebke s.n.). The finding of the type material in Ventenat’s herbarium supersedes this lectotypification. Two collections exists in Ventenat’s herbarium. The better preserved sheet is designated here as the lectotype.Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on pages 106-107, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Casuarina distyla Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.
No full text14. Casuarina distyla Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.: tab. 62. 1802. Ξ Allocasuarina distyla (Vent.) L.A.S. Johnson Typus: [AUSTRALIA]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. (holo-: G [G00341454]!; iso-: NSW [NSW62357] image seen). Notes. – Johnson (1992: 75) transferred Casuarina distyla to his new genus Allocasuarina L.A.S. Johnson. The author designated the collection at G from Cels’s garden as the lectotype.Only one collection is extant inVentenat’s herbarium and should therefore be considered as the holotype.A clastotype is present in NSW and should be considered as the isotype.The two other collections mentioned by Johnson (1992: 75) in K [K000872501] (Herb. Forsyth. purchased 1835) and P [P00735055] (“donné par Bonpland en 1835”) have been very likely collected later in Cels’s garden and are here not considered as isotypes. The provenance of the plant has been recorded as “Cap de Diemen” in Tasmania but is clearly from New South Wales (Johnson, 1992).Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/572191
Measurement of the single π⁰ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water
No full textThe single π⁰ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water in a neutrino beam with a peak neutrino energy of 0.6 GeV has been measured using the PØD, one of the subdetectors of the T2K near detector. The production rate was measured for data taking periods when the PØD contained water (2.64×10²⁰ protons-on-target) and also periods without water (3.49×10²⁰ protons-on-target). A measurement of the neutral current single π⁰ production rate on water is made using appropriate subtraction of the production rate with water in from the rate with water out of the target region. The subtraction analysis yields 106±41 (stat.) ± 69 (sys.) signal events where the uncertainties are statistical (stat.) and systematic (sys.) respectively. This is consistent with the prediction of 157 events from the nominal simulation. The measured to expected ratio is 0.68±0.26(stat)±0.44(sys)±0.12(flux). The nominal simulation uses a flux integrated cross section of 7.63×10-39 cm2 per nucleon with an average neutrino interaction energy of 1.3 GeV
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