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Robert Chagny (éd.) : La Révolution française. Idéaux, singularités, influences. Actes des journées d'études organisées par le Musée de la Révolution française, à Vizille, en hommage à Albert Soboul, Jacques Godechot et Jean-René Suratteau. Présentation de Michel Vovelle. Rapport de synthèse de Jean-Clément Martin, 2002
No full textPanneckoucke Stephane. Robert Chagny (éd.) : La Révolution française. Idéaux, singularités, influences. Actes des journées d'études organisées par le Musée de la Révolution française, à Vizille, en hommage à Albert Soboul, Jacques Godechot et Jean-René Suratteau. Présentation de Michel Vovelle. Rapport de synthèse de Jean-Clément Martin, 2002. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°36, 2004. Femmes des Lumières. p. 617
Robert Chagny (éd.) : La Révolution française. Idéaux, singularités, influences. Actes des journées d'études organisées par le Musée de la Révolution française, à Vizille, en hommage à Albert Soboul, Jacques Godechot et Jean-René Suratteau. Présentation de Michel Vovelle. Rapport de synthèse de Jean-Clément Martin, 2002
No full textPanneckoucke Stephane. Robert Chagny (éd.) : La Révolution française. Idéaux, singularités, influences. Actes des journées d'études organisées par le Musée de la Révolution française, à Vizille, en hommage à Albert Soboul, Jacques Godechot et Jean-René Suratteau. Présentation de Michel Vovelle. Rapport de synthèse de Jean-Clément Martin, 2002. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°36, 2004. Femmes des Lumières. p. 617
Stephane Mallarme: A synthesis of romanticism and parnassianism, 1970
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to analyse works of Stephane Mallarme, father of Symbolism, pointing out romantic and parnassian elements. Symbolism, like Romanticism, attempted to express the interior thoughts of man. The symbolist movement then, was not only a revolt against Parnassianism but also a return to Romanticism. On the other hand, one would not be incorrect in saying that Romanticism reached its culmination in the works of the symbolists poets. For this reason, an attempt will be made to show that the works of Mallarme, father of Symbolism, can be considered as a synthesis of Romanticism and Parnassianism. This thesis contains three chapters. The first chapter is devoted to a discussion of Romanticism and of Parnassianism. Special attention is given to the origin, development, characteristics and influences of each school. The relationship of one School with the other is also pointed out. The second chapter consists of a biographical sketch of Stephane Mallarme. Special emphasis is placed on factors and events in his life which may have influenced or determined the elements of Romanticism and Parnassianism in his poetry. The third chapter is devoted to an analysis of some of the poems of Stephane Mallarme", "Les Fenetres," V Apparition," "L'Azur," "Toast Funebre," "Le Vierge," "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune." In these analyses special attention is given to the romantic and parnassian tendencies of the poems. Since these romantic-parnaassian elements occur frequently throughout his works, it has been concluded that Mallarme's poetry can be considered as a synthesis of the two poetic schools
Jean-Luc Godard and the other history of cinema
No full textJean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-1998) is a video work made up of visual and verbal quotations of hundreds of images and sounds from film history. But rather than simply telling (hi)stories of cinema, Godard makes a case for cinema as a tool for performing the work of history. This is partly because the film image, by virtue of always recording more of the real than was anticipated or intended, necessarily has history itself inscribed within its very fabric. It is also because montage, as the art of combining discrete elements in new ways in order to produce original forms, can be seen as a machine for realising historical thought. This thesis examines these ideas by discussing Godard's account of the role of cinema in the Second World War, and by analysing some of his recent work as examples of historical montage which attempt to criticise our current political climate through comparison with earlier eras.
After a first chapter which sets out Godard's argument through an extensive commentary of Histoire(s) 1A and B, a second chapter discusses Godard's depiction of the invention of cinema and traces a complex argument about technology and historical responsibility around the key metaphorical figure of the train. Chapter 3 explores the ways in which Godard's historical approach to cinema allows him to maintain a critical discourse with regard to the geopolitical realities of late twentieth-century Europe (Germany, the Balkans), but also to the communications and business empires that have developed over the past few decades. A final chapter offers a detailed consideration of the nature of Godard's cinematic quotation and seeks to explicate the apocalyptic rhetoric of his late work. Aside from Histoire(s) du cinema, films discussed include Nouvelle Vague (1990), Allemagne neuf zero (1991), For Ever Mozart (1996) and Eloge de l'amour (2001)
The view from the paradoxical world
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The consequences of using such complex tools as Logic and Mathematics, which are so ingrained in our own nature as thinking living organisms, to explain precisely that Nature in which we ourselves are imbedded, are disucssed from a new perspective. The interplay between the individual (subjective) world and the social (objective) world emerges with clarity under this light.
Paradoxes, a nightmare for Logicians and Mathematicians, are returned to their cradle, the observer, where no hunt is set up to “solve" them. Though I am not alone in this endeavour to consider paradoxes from a different perspective, new insights into the nature of the living organization and the working of the nervous system allow today the opportunity to strengthen this revolutionary viewpoint.
Several experiments performed on a multicomputer realization of organizationally closed (paradoxical) unities, suggest a nervous system where processes and descriptions are more fundamental concepts than time and space.
While the consequences of this new approach remain still to be explored, a sensitive reader will already enjoy them
Derrida and postmodernity: At the end(s) of history
No full textThis thesis erects and defends the proposition that Jacques Derrida's readings of 'metaphysics in deconstruction' and his raising to theoretical consciousness of the 'differential matrix', have the capacity to inaugurate a 'brave new world' in this postmodern 'age of the aporia'. Beginning with an examination of Derrida's readings of Husserl and Saussure, it is argued that the radical historicity uncovered here qua an originary synthesis of language, time and the other, opens the possibility for greatly more democratising and emancipating self-creations and human solidarities to be thought. In terms of 'self-creations', and borrowing from the work of Elizabeth Deeds Errnarth, Chapter Two follows Derrida as modernity's sovereign subject and its 'History' are dis-placed by an absolutely affirmative postmodern subjectivity whose axiom might be 'I inherit, therefore, I am ... yes, yes ... ' Construed through his deconstructive reading of Kant, Derrida shows the way in which this postmodern subjectivity without alibi, makes of us all (like it or not, know it or not) resistance fighters, so many singularities existing in constant tension with all normalising/totalising tendencies (social, economic, techno-scientific, political, legal etc ... ) which profess to know the secret. Turning to co-extensive 'human solidarities', Chapter Three subsequently demonstrates the way in which Derrida's call for a 'New International', orientated through a 'new figure of Europe', enables us to imagine new polysemic communities (local, national, international) founded on the 'aporia of the demos', a 'foundation' that construes its hyper-relativity as a positive (ethico-political) condition of decision in terms of a radical responsibility (on an individual and communal level) for the moral/aesthetic decisions we make. It is thus that I will argue that Derrida's vision for a 'new world order' is born out of an aporetic condition which is both a risk and a chance of both the best - and the worst - happening; as someone who shares Derrida's desire for a fairer, freer, more peaceful world, one respectful of difference and otherness, I believe this to be a 'poker like gamble' well worth taking. Chapter Four offers a comparative analysis between the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, two theorists counter-signing differently many of the 'same' discourses/ traditions/cultures/languages, etc ... to which they are both heirs. The chapter examines their respective 'quasi-philosophies of the limit', together with their differing conceptions of the issues surrounding globalisation and universalisation, as well as Baudrillard' s elevation of America (as opposed to Europe) as the exemplary site of resistance against the dangers of totalisation in 'postmodem' societies. The central argument here, in line with my previous remarks, is that Derrida's thought arguably remains 'the best' way to navigate the postmodem condition and the challenges it produces. The originality of this thesis lies in two main areas, the first having to do with my presentation and conception of Derrida's oeuvre and the second having to do with the comparisons made in this study between Derrida and Ermarth and Derrida and Baudrillard. In terms of the former, I offer what I consider to be a unique, sustained, in-depth analysis of the 'development' (on a theoretical and practical level) of the thematics of 'radical historicity' and of 'post-historical man' - effectively the development of Derrida's quasi-philosophy of history- from his earliest works so that they can be seen to inform his later intervention(s) in what are conventionally understood as ethical and political matters; transforming this understanding in the process and, after the end of history's ends (upper case, lower case and the totalising 'history of meaning' per se), quite literally and radically changing the way we see what we call 'the world'. For while in the conventional literature Derrida's politics come late, I argue here that his indeed later political work is but an emphasis of constant political thematics acting as a leitmotif from beginning to end. Turning to the latter, in terms of the comparisons I make - first between Derrida and Ermarth in Chapter Two and more especially between Derrida and Baudrillard in Chapter Four - the claim to originality lies in the fact that there is no comparison of any note or depth in the literature between these thinkers; nothing that compares Derrida's 'affirmative postmodem subjectivity' and its 'inheritance' with Ermarth's 'rhythmic time' and 'muIti-level consciousness', and nothing comparing Derrida's corpus - specifically his optimistic emancipating and democratizing hopes for the future - with Baudrillard's more pessimistic conceptualization of 'simulation society' and the loss of our European universal values under the hegemonic, globalising movement of the 'American model'. The aim of these two comparisons is to support my claim that Derrida's historico-political position is the 'best' way of essaying the quasi-ground of an in(different) politics in such a way that it keeps the future open to what he calls a 'better world' to come, a world without ends
O percurso do intelectual: da esfera pública à academia
No full textNeste texto abordo questões acerca da figura do intelectual e da sua trajetória da esfera pública à academia. Procuro, também, ensaiar uma imagem de sua situação hoje, como se dá sua intervenção e de que forma age e reage em comparação ao mito fundador do intelectual moderno, representado pelo autor Émile Zola. Para elaborar tal percurso, percorro conceituações de Antonio Gramsci, Stephane Mallarmé, Jean-François Lyotard, Eric Hoffer, Eduardo Portella e Alfonso Sastre. In this text are approached questions about the intellectual face and his/her trajectory from public sphere to academy. It is looked for essaying an image of his/her situation nowadays, his/her intervention and in which way he/she acts and reacts in comparison to the founder myth of modern intellectual, represented by the author Émile Zola. To elaborate this way, concepts from Antonio Gramsci, Stephane Mallarmé, Jean-François Lyotard, Eric Hoffer, Eduardo Portella and Alfonso Sastre are mentioned.
El neorrealismo absoluto en El ser y la nada de Jean-Paul Sartre
No full textIf the twentieth century was that of phenomenology, the twenty-first is characterized by the rise of multiple realisms. Although one might think that this is a radical turn in contemporary philosophy, it should be remembered that, in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre tried to establish an absolute neorealism which wanted to preserve a certain realism within phenomenology. Through a reading of Being and nothingness, the author shows that absolute neorealism enables the dichotomy between idealism and realism to be surpassed, thanks to the transphenomenality of two beings and, in addition, imposes a displacement of the descriptive and constitutive task of phenomenologytowards a work of revelation.Tal como el siglo XX fue aquel de la fenomenología, el siglo XXI se caracteriza por el auge de los realismos. Se podría pensar que este cambio marca un giro radical en la filosofía. No obstante, es de recordar que en 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre quiso construir, desde la fenomenología, un neorrealismo absoluto que pueda conservar cierto realismo dentro de la fenomenología. Mediante una lectura de El ser y la nada se propone mostrarque el neorrealismo absoluto impone superar la dicotomía entre idealismo y realismo gracias a la transfenomenicidad de dos seres; y, además, desplazar la tarea descriptivay constitutiva de la fenomenología hacia un trabajo de revelación
How can allocative inefficiency reveal risk preference? An empirical investigation on French wheat farms
No full textWe focus on a simple framework on wheat producer behaviour in a context of price output uncertainty. More precisely, we establish a relationship between ex post output price level and allocative inefficiency that allows to characterize farmers’ risk preferences. Given this analysis, the connection between risk aversion and other socioeconomic variables (such as degree of output specialisation, total asset, debts, farmer’s age…) can furthermore empirically be explored. This relationship is empirically tested on an unbalanced panel including about 650 wheat producers located in the French Department of Meuse over 1992- 2003.Producer behaviour, allocative inefficiency, risk aversion, Crop Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty,
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: Clinical variability and low aggressiveness associated with RET mutation at codon 804
No full textSixty-one heterozygotes harboring the germline V804L mutation of the RET protooncogene were identified in five independent families. A total of 31 subjects underwent surgery. Histology identified C cell hyperplasia in 30 cases, isolated in 12 and associated with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in 18. Six patients with MTC had lymph node metastases. Among the 14 patients with basal detectable calcitonin (CT) level, 12 had MTC and 2 had isolated C cell hyperplasia. In most individuals carrying 804 RET mutation, C cell disease displayed late onset and an indolent course; a pentagastrin test was negative in the majority of heterozygotes during the first 2 decades and was positive in only half of them during the third and fourth decades of life. Interestingly, concomitant somatic M918T was detected in a 12-yr-old girl with MTC and was likely to be responsible for both the early clinical appearance and the aggressiveness of the disease. Our data show that in these gene carriers, surgery may be postponed to the fourth decade of life or until the pentagastrin stimulation test becomes positive. Indeed, our data should be confirmed on a larger series of V804L carriers, but may offer a balanced strategy to keep under control and prevent development of the full disease phenotype
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