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A History of Fatigue
“Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload”: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a “burn-out society,” a society in which fatigue has become the norm. How did this happen? This pioneering book explores the rich and little-known history of fatigue from the Middle Ages to the present. Vigarello shows that our understanding of fatigue, the words used to describe it, and the symptom...
This is Not Just a Painting
In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were rediscovered in the 1980s and one was passed from hand to hand, from a family who had no idea of its value to gallery owners and eventually to the museum. A painting that had been sold as a decorative object in 1986 for around 12,000 euros was acquired two decades later by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon for 17 million euros. What does this remarkable story tell us about the nature of art and the way that it is valued? How...
The Legacy of Barthélemy
Les Devanciers d'Aquila by Dominique Barthélemy (1963) is an epoch-making work on the textual history of the Septuagint. On the basis of his analysis of the Nahal Hever Minor Prophets Scroll, Barthélemy developed his theory of an early Hebraizing revision (so-called kaige revision), designed to bring the traditional text of the Septuagint closer to the Hebrew text, and recognized examples of it in the B-text of books such as Joshua, Judges, and Samuel-Kings. The work of these early Hebraizing revisers resembled the later very literal translation by Aquila; hence the name of the book, "the predecessors of Aquila". Textual scholars of today continue in the footsteps of Barthélemy and work o...
Separate Humans
This book is a theoretical essay that lays foundations on which to build an anthropology directly focusing on human units. In the first chapter, the author attempts to show that the evolutionary specificity of humans constitutes an argument in favour of this perspective. The consciousness of existing in time and nuanced modalities of presence call for a detailed observation of humans. The second chapter is a critique of the abundant use of the notion of relations in social anthropology. This critique is necessary because of the extent to which the various theoretical and methodological uses of relations absorb and lose existences and their details. The third chapter concerns nonhumans, anoth...
Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy
Over recent decades, Spinoza scholarship has significantly developed in both France and the United States, shedding new light on the work of this major philosopher. Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy systematically unites for the first time American and French Spinoza specialists in conversation with each other, illustrating the fecundity of bringing together diverse approaches to the study of Early Modern philosophy. Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy gives readers a unique opportunity to discover the most consequential and sophisticated aspects of American and French Spinoza research today. Featuring chapters by American scholars with...
Storia della fatica
Storia della fatica è un'esplorazione della stanchezza attraverso le epoche e le culture: una narrazione in cui si incrociano i cambiamenti delle nostre strutture socio-lavorative e quelli riguardanti i corpi e l'autopercezione, l'impatto della guerra e la nascita ed evoluzione dell'attività sportiva. Dal lavoratore medievale chino a vangare la terra fino all'impiegato ingobbito sulla scrivania o risucchiato dallo schermo di un pc, il modo in cui definiamo la fatica ha sempre detto molto del rapporto che abbiamo con noi stessi, con gli altri e con il nostro organismo. Se infatti dietro ogni sforzo c'è sempre stato un racconto e in ogni manifestazione della spossatezza c'è sempre stata la...
Trajectoire et Témoignage
Le témoin, le témoignage, l’action de témoigner, sont largement sollicités dans les sciences humaines et sociales, qu’il s’agisse d’accéder à des informations biographiques, d’observer la dynamique des situations de production, d’examiner des dispositifs sociotechniques de collecte, d’archivage et de restitution, ou encore d’interroger l’épaisseur du discours sur soi et ses évolutions dans le temps. Ces formes variées de sollicitation tendent à être pensées séparément au motif qu’elles supposent des méthodes de recueil et d’analyse distinctes qui se développent préférentiellement dans telle ou telle discipline. C’est à l’inverse dans une perspecti...
Black Ranching Frontiers
In this volume, Andrew Sluyter demonstrates that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labour, property and commerce in the Atlantic world.
