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Publisher: Editions Bréal

Published:

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 2749522900

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Does freedom of expression interfere with freedom of thought ?

Does freedom of expression interfere with freedom of thought ?

Author: Jean-Luc NATIVELLE

Publisher: Editions M-Editer

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 2362871762

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Freedom of expression and freedom of thought are accepted as essential values of democracy. Instruments of emancipation inherited from the Enlightenment, they seem self-evident because the link between them is so obvious. Yet our modernity forces us to question ourselves, because the technical means today allow everyone to speak, and often to say anything. Hence our concern: is everything that is freely said really part of the exercise of true thought? However, if we sometimes believe that it is an attack on democracy to only ask such a question - in the name of freedom of expression - it seems to us that it is by refusing to ask it that we do the most harm to democracy - in the name of freedom of thought. For it is by affirming that something is not a problem that we make the bed of "one thought" and weaken the regime of freedom, which is only solid in our true ability to debate. Far from wanting to put an end to it, it is therefore by worrying about the abuses to which it may give rise that we take the best care of democracy.


Use others, about narcissistic perverts

Use others, about narcissistic perverts

Author: Christophe MEIGNANT

Publisher: Editions M-Editer

Published: 2019-02-10

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 2362871770

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How can we understand the psychological situation in which others are reduced to one tool for another? It is common, although rarely apparent, for some pathological individuals to use others as narcissistic prostheses, exclusively as a means. This enterprise includes the destruction of a person, a destruction without which these individuals cannot live. In this psychic panorama, which is that of narcissistic perversion, it is the link that is disqualified.


Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Author: Joseph Acquisto

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3030610144

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This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.


L’écriture du bonheur dans le roman contemporain

L’écriture du bonheur dans le roman contemporain

Author: Ruth Amar

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1443828114

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Through the ages, the pursuit of Happiness has been at the heart of the needs and desires each individual would seek to fulfill, while as a concept, Happiness has always resonated strongly in poetic as well as philosophical, sociological and psychological contexts. But what about Happiness today, in a world dominated by technology, driven by productivity and dictated by efficiency? Does Happiness still feature in contemporary fiction in any significant way? Or has it perhaps gone underground, adopting different guises? Would we still call that “duty of happiness” that Pascal Bruckner saw as “present at the second half of the twentieth century” a relevant force today? Or has it waned perceptibly? The articles brought together in this volume seek to work out answers to these and similar questions, creatively addressing the imminent risks but also eagerly following up the intriguing possibilities one encounters when interrogating Happiness in the contemporary novel. Originally based on an international conference organized at the University of Haifa, Israel, in May 2010, the volume is structured around the axes we found useful as a basis for the various approaches towards Happiness in Europe and the historical and social events that influenced the writing of Happiness as they defined the 20th century and have impacted on the 21st: the Holocaust, the Soviet dystopia, consumerism, postmodernism, “everyday life,” the various as yet unarticulated new modes of life they have given rise to, and so on. A new writing of happiness then? At the very least this volume targets the contemporary novel without wanting to solidify works, instead taking into account the fluctuations Happiness has been subjected to, and the diversity and especially the paradoxes it has created, while we have been keen to preserve a “precise” reading of the texts and have felt compelled to respect and preserve the particular features that make the writings of the authors we focus on stand out. Thème philosophique aussi bien que poétique, sociologique et psychologique, le bonheur s’édifie à la mesure de chacun. « N’est-il pas vrai que, nous autres hommes, nous désirons tous être heureux ? » (Platon). Or dans notre monde actuel dominé par la technique, la recherche à outrance du productif et de l’efficacité, qu’en est-il du bonheur ? Est-il encore présent aux écritures romanesques contemporaines ? Sous quelles formes se présenterait sa recherche ? Ce « devoir de bonheur propre à la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle » dont parle Pascal Bruckner, continue-t-il toujours à être d’actualité ? S’est-il renforcé ou, au contraire, s’est-il affaibli? Le projet d’un questionnement du bonheur dans le roman contemporain comportait de gros risques, mais il offrait en même temps des possibilités stimulantes. A la suite du colloque international organisé à l’université de Haïfa en mai 2010, les textes réunis dans ce livre, cherchent à élaborer des éléments de réponse à ces questions. Le volume offre un état des lieux du bonheur dans le roman depuis 1980 et présente une large diversité d’approches, de définitions, d’interrogations sur l’écriture du bonheur sur trois décennies. Le recueil s’articule autour d’axes qui ont servi de base aux différentes approches du bonheur en Europe et d’événements historiques et sociaux qui ont pu influencer l’écriture du bonheur aux différentes périodes du XXe et XXe siècles, telles que l’Holocauste, la dystopie en Russie, le postmodernisme et le consumérisme, le quotidien, les différents paradoxes du bonheur, les nouveaux modes de vie. Nouvelle écriture du bonheur? Du moins, ce volume vise-t-il le contemporain sans figer les œuvres, tout en tenant compte des fluctuations du sujet, de sa diversité, de ses paradoxes surtout, tout en conservant la lecture précise des textes et en respectant la particularité de l’écriture des auteurs traités.


Passions and Perceptions

Passions and Perceptions

Author: Jacques Brunschwig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-03-25

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0521402026

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This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.