“…De l'espace antique délimité par le Rhin, les Alpes, les Pyrénées et l'océan, au pré carré ordonné et sacralisé par la monarchie et la République, de « nos ancêtres les Gaulois » à « nous sommes tous des enfants d'immigrés », voici, racontée avec force et brio, la lente et méthodique construction d'un pays qui, en 1789, a fait de l'égalité son principe. …”

“…We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. …”

“…If contemporary democracies are going to take back control and compete with autocratic systems on the world stage while avoiding their own suicide through polarization and paralysis fueled by untrustworthy information, they need a radical renovation that responds to the forces undermining them. Above all, such a renovation must engage the participatory power of social media and the increasing preference of publics for direct democracy by designing new, impartial institutions and practices that interpose a deliberative check against the false claims, misinformation, intolerance and magical thinking that come along with the immediate wash of networked popular sentiment. …”

“…Ultimately, Tunick rejects simplified arguments that force us to choose between either practices or principles, universalism or relativism, and liberalism or communitarianism…”
Sumario

“…Entre dialogue et rapport de force, occupants et occupés s'adaptent à une coexistence imposée par le sort des armes. …”

“…Comme le roi Arthur ou Jeanne d’Arc, il a survécu au passage du temps. Conquérant, législateur, monarque très chrétien ou inventeur de l’école, il est aussi perçu comme le premier « père de l’Europe ». …”

“…To tell you truly, Madam, your Commands did at first much affright me, for it did appear, as if you had commanded me to get upon a high Rock, and fling my self into the Sea, where neither a Ship, nor a Plank, nor any kind of help was near to rescue me, and save my life; but that I was forced to sink, by reason I cannot swim: So I having no Learning nor Art to assist me in this dangerous undertaking, thought, I must of necessity perish under the rough censures of my Readers, and be not onely accounted a fool for my labour, but a vain and presumptuous person, to undertake things surpassing the ability of my performance --…”

“…He analyzes the work of poets Robinson Jeffers and William Everson, and considers painters Georges Roualt, a friend to Maritain, and Makoto Fujimura, whose notion of “culture care” overlaps in suggestive ways with Francis’s notion of integral ecology.Throughout this tour de force, Hibbs calls for a commitment to an “ecological poetics,” a project that responds to the crisis of our times by taking poets and painters as seriously as philosophers and theologians --…”

“…L'offensive allemande du 16 décembre 1944 au travers des Ardennes belges va surprendre le général Eisenhower, commandant suprême des forces alliées du front Ouest, qui se rend compte du manque de réserves stratégiques à sa disposition. …”

“…In this book, a philosopher and organizational psychologist who together research meaningful work consider what these forces mean for whether work might give meaning and purpose to our lives or take it away. …”

“…Exposing the driving forces behind the Third Reich's first genocide and its persistent legacy today, The Question of Unworthy Life recovers the stories of the unsung advocates for disability rights who challenged the aggressive victimization of the disabled and developed alternative approaches to cognitive impairment based on ideals of equality, mutuality, and human possibility"-- Editor…”

“…Unlike how contemporary society primarily views the temporal dimension, to early modern Europeans time was not an objective force external to the self but something that was tied to acting in time. …”

“…The memory of the classical past was a powerful and compelling social and political force for the denizens of Late Antiquity, even as their physical surroundings came to resemble less and less the ideals of the Greco-Roman city. …”

“…Hasta hace poco determinante para la afirmación de una ciencia histórica española autónoma, la influencia de la historiografía francesa ha retrocedido de manera progresiva hasta parecer, a veces, secundaria. …”

“…Que sait-on, que peut-on savoir, compte tenu de nos traditions et coutumes de travail, de notre capacité de réflexion, mais aussi de l'état des archives, du niveau actuel de notre savoir, de la force de nos convictions et de notre foi aveuglante en la toute puissance explicative d'une science historique qui serait source de vérité ? …”

“…More seriously, they are deprived of a critical grasp of the area, and thus forced into a habit of early selectivity, rote memory of specific models in isolation, and regurgitation at exams. …”

“…In a country with an unenviable history of electoral trauma, the mood was apprehensive if not tense – not least because of controversial public statements against the incumbent Qarase government being made by the commander of Fiji’s military forces. Despite a record number of parties and candidates, the winners were the two big parties – the heavily church-backed SDL, the party of choice of the majority of indigenous Fijians; and the Fiji Labour Party, the party preferred by most Indo-Fijians. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Phorontology -- The site -- The para-site -- The meta-site -- The 'patasite -- Exergum : transject manifesto…”

“…Successeur de Staline, Nikita Khrouchtchev impose une perestroïka (refondation) de l’école et de l’université qui vise autant l’avènement du communisme par le respect du travail physique et la promotion des ouvriers et des paysans, que la fin de l’agitation étudiante née suite au « Rapport secret » de 1956, et l’amélioration du recrutement dans certaines branches de la production industrielle et agricole, marquées par la diminution du travail forcé. …”

“…Apostilla sobre la guerra, Alessandro Baricco nos hace ver cómo las mujeres reparan lo que los hombres destruyen en su sed de venganza y se atreven a expresar sus deseos de paz, siendo capaces de imaginar otra belleza. Y, por último, Marina Garcés nos habla en Guerreras de la guerra que las mujeres hacen por su cuenta para evitar ser víctimas o cuidadoras, de cómo ellas luchan para cambiar la sociedad. …”