471 results for '"Pierre Collet'

We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the...

The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's...

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Une analyse des écrits de La Fontaine et de leur caractère pédagogique et politique. L'auteur montre comment le fabuliste donne à la jeunesse une connaissance du monde réel mais aussi la sagesse et...

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Le retour de Platon, dans la seconde moitie du XVe siecle, sous-tend le projet philosophique de la Renaissance tout entiere: fonder l'humanisme sur l'aptitude de l'homme a relier, rassembler, reunir...

The oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boiotia), among the best documented in Greece, was active from the archaic period to the third century AD. At this oracle, divine revelation was given in the...

We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics,...

Nietzsche, le philosophe briseur d'idoles, reste à découvrir, car il se trouve comme enseveli sous des altérations, des mensonges et des falsifications. En fondant à Weimar, en 1897, le Nietzsche...

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We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics,...

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up...

This volume, the third part of Realms of Memory, focuses on the emblems that signify Frenchness to people around the world. It includes 13 essays on cultural icons from Joan of Arc to Descartes; the...

Le général de Gaulle est d'abord un soldat et un écrivain. Il a abordé dans ses écrits l'essentiel des problèmes militaires qui se posaient à l'armée et à la nation.