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Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism
This monograph is the first to analyze Julius Caesar Scaliger’s Exotericae Exercitationes (1557). Though hardly read today, the Exercitationes was one of the most successful philosophical treatises of the time, attracting considerable attention from many intellectuals with multifaceted religious and philosophical orientations. In order to make this massive late-Renaissance work accessible to modern readers, Kuni Sakamoto conducted a detailed textual analysis and revealed the basic tenets of Scaliger’s philosophy. His analysis also enabled him to clarify the historical provenance of Scaliger’s Aristotelianism and the way it subsequently influenced some of the protagonists of the “New Philosophy.” The author thus bridges the historiographical gap between studies of Renaissance philosophy and those of the seventeenth-century.
Heroism and Passion in Literature
This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French, German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from La Fontaine, Molière and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning - apart from an individual and existential one - in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance, since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of all societies and cultures.
Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits, and Pornography
This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. It is a book about disempowerment, and re-empowerment through writing.
Ecritures de l'exil
L'exil, épreuve de la séparation, existe clans l'humanité depuis la nuit des temps, comme si faisait partie de l'humaine condition, le fait de ne pouvoir demeurer en la terre de ses pères. C'est à une libre traversée parmi les exilés, les parias, les héros, ou les poètes, comme autant d'images tout à la fois pathétiques et vivifiantes de notre condition mêlée, qu'invite ce recueil.
Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, c.1870-1930
The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.
Le temps de la mémoire II
Aux parcours vers le souvenir, vers les empreintes, les flux et leurs ruptures, à ces quêtes délicatement cernées par des voix venues d'un horizon pluridisciplinaire, succède un nouvel ensemble de contributions qui s'attachent aux textures des mémoires collectives. Ce deuxième colloque que le LAPRIL consacre au Temps de la mémoire conforte la richesse et la portée du thème exploré : en associant le secret des mémoires individuelles au souci des mémoires partagées, il se révèle pourvu d'une belle cohérence. Soi et les autres : les problématiques sont d'une vive actualité et déborderont sans nul doute le cadre des colloques. Fertilisant de futurs échanges, leur fonction essentielle s'affirme largement dans les croisements de moissons issues des diverses cultures. Ainsi le LAPRIL prouve-t-il la fécondité de l'interdisciplinarité et de l'interculturalité, l'importance d'une anthropologie de la mémoire et de ses racines, en éclairant les processus mémoriels qui engagent le Moi et l'Autre.
