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Espace de travail, de loisir ou d’évasion, la bibliothèque remplit toutes sortes de fonctions pour un écrivain. Elle est un patrimoine matériel qui se construit, se transmet et se disperse, mais aussi un atelier où les lectures, savantes ou sauvages, viennent nourrir la création; enfin elle constitue le lieu d’un réseau de savoirs où se découvrent des filiations, des circulations et des dialogues parfois insoupçonnés. Telles sont les trois facettes des bibliothèques d’écrivains explorées dans ce volume, pour des auteurs de l’époque médiévale à l’époque contemporaine qui ont voyagé en Europe, Amérique et Asie. Ces études interrogent les archives papier ou numériques de figures intellectuelles variées: poètes, linguistes, philosophes, cinéastes ou critiques. Issu d’un séminaire du laboratoire Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires (LT2D) de l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise et d’un colloque co-organisé avec la Bibliothèque nationale de France en 2014, cet ouvrage bénéficie du soutien de la Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine.

By historicizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts, literary studies can contribute to understanding and rationalizing key debates waged in many pluralist societies today – whether on different conceptions of liberty, identity politics, historical commemoration, challenges of globalization or responses to climate change. Understanding Public Debates presents case studies including Milton's Paradise Lost, P.B. Shelley's 1820 Reform essay, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, the songwriting of Neil Young and Edward Young's 1720s Sea Odes, recent climate fiction as well as non-literary conflict narratives. Rather than mining texts for arguments for or against certain positions, this book is interested in how texts stage these debates by means of multiple perspectives, narrative situations or ambiguities. By suggesting how educators might use literary texts as conversation starters for more rational debates, the volume also contributes to Public Literary Studies. Three important fields are here brought together: (1) the study of societal debates and conflicts and the ways in which they challenge pluralist societies, (2) explorations of the societal functions of literature and of non-literary narratives and (3) discussions of the role and functions of literary studies. The book ends with ten crisp theses on how literary studies can contribute to understanding and rationalizing such conflictive debates.

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This edited collection, based on comparative, multi-sited ethnographic research, explores the concept of riverine rights in relation to rivers in New Zealand, Columbia and India that have been declared legal persons or subjects of rights: the Whanganui, the Atrato, the Ganges and the Yamuna. The cases drew significant attention from academia and the wider public, as examples of the Rights of Nature in practice. This book contributes with in-depth empirical research carried out by a highly interdisciplinary team of co-authors – from anthropology, law, history, political science, management studies and water science – many of whom are from the case study countries and the river basins. The first chapters carefully examine each case, discussing its history, the institutional context, the actors and interests, the issues to be addressed by the legal decisions, and their outcomes. Subsequent chapters provide detailed comparative analysis on the Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, the struggles of Indigenous and marginalized groups, and on different ontological understandings of the relations between people, rivers and nature. The book concludes with reflections on how these cases of riverine rights relate to global trends, and discusses the tensions and synergies between Human Rights and Nature’s Rights, with a particular emphasis on how Indigenous Rights intersect with Rivers’ Rights. Finally, it argues for a broad notion of Riverine Rights that includes those who live by the river, and beyond Riverine Rights, to the social, cultural and political dimensions of the legal innovations, and to the larger environmental crises they seek to address. This interdisciplinary book will be essential reading for academics and researchers across social sciences and law with an interest in how social struggles, environmental justice and innovative legislation intersect for the wellbeing of rivers and their people.

“Long live the Reds, down with the Whites! Long live Ledru-Rollin! Bonaparte to the guillotine! Down with the Chouans!”. These cries made in October 1850 by grape pickers from the Dole area are one of the many traces that Pierre Merlin collected in archives that have been little-studied until now to write the living history of the democratic learning in Jura between 1848 and the end of the 19th century. From the intense political struggles around 1848 to the establishment of the Republic and beyond, the book describes the formation of a democratic opinion that is illuminated by trajectories of emblematic republicans and socialists such as Louis-Étienne Jousserandot and Jean-Paul Mazaroz.

II C.I.R.B. (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Bioetica), cui aderiscono tutte le Università napoletane, è un organismo di ricerca nel quale - con metodo rigorosamente scientifico, grazie al concorso di qualificati cultori delle varie discipline interessate e in un clima di costante e costruttivo dialogo con i rappresentanti delle diverse posizioni culturali - è possibile delineare le trame di una serena e ponderata riflessione comune su tematiche che coinvolgono l’identità stessa della persona umana e il destino delle generazioni future.

The thesis deals with the question of legal succession in public law approvals with a particular focus on the legal situation in mining law. A comparison with legal succession in different approvals in the field of environmental law provides possible solutions and at the same time highlights the necessity for an amendment of the existing provisions on legal succession in the Federal Mining Act.

Academic gatherings often generate questions and perspectives that endure beyond their formal sessions. The Congress of Applied Research in Health and Medicine emerged from this conviction, bringing together inquiry, clinical reflection, and disciplinary exchange. The chapters collected here present practice-oriented studies attentive to contemporary healthcare challenges, while engaging broader concerns about care, knowledge, technology, ethics, and human experience. Clinical, educational, organizational, and humanistic dimensions intersect throughout the volume, revealing a field marked by plurality and methodological range. Shaped through peer review, the proceedings offer a considered portrait of ongoing efforts to deepen understanding and strengthen professional practice in health sciences.

Electrical machines are one of the most important components of the industrial world. They are at the heart of the new industrial revolution, brought forth by the development of electromobility and renewable energy systems. Electric motors must meet the most stringent requirements of reliability, availability, and high efficiency in order, among other things, to match the useful lifetime of power electronics in complex system applications and compete in the market under ever-increasing pressure to deliver the highest performance criteria. Today, thanks to the application of highly efficient numerical algorithms running on high-performance computers, it is possible to design electric machines and very complex drive systems faster and at a lower cost. At the same time, progress in the field of material science and technology enables the development of increasingly complex motor designs and topologies. The purpose of this Special Issue is to contribute to this development of electric machines. The publication of this collection of scientific articles, dedicated to the topic of electric machine design and application, contributes to the dissemination of the above information among professionals dealing with electrical machines.

Um 1900 entwickelte die Heimatschutzbewegung aus dem Volkstumsdiskurs heraus eine identitätspolitische Spielart der Moderne, die eine eigene Architekturprogrammatik einschloss. Rainer Schmitz untersucht deren Entstehung und Konzeption durch Akteure des 1904 gegründeten »Bundes Heimatschutz« wie Ernst Rudorff, Paul Schultze-Naumburg oder Otto March. Im Fokus seiner Sondierungen steht die Übersetzung gesellschaftlicher Konstrukte und Phänomene wie der »sozialen Frage«, Heimat, Volkstum oder Antisemitismus in den Baudiskurs sowie deren Architektonisierung in Projekten wie den Nationalstadien oder der »deutschen Ostkolonisation«. Damit trägt er u.a. zur Debatte über die Konstruktion kollektiver Identitäten bei.

A disease model displays pathological processes observed in human or animal diseases. The models are fundamental tools in biomedical research, and they are invaluable for providing new insights into mechanisms underlying organ function, establishing the pathophysiology of a disease, and testing potential therapeutic approaches.Models have been long used to study several diseases, including cardiovascular, oncologic, metabolic, infectious, and neurological diseases, among others. Animals or cells displaying pathological processes observed in human or animal diseases have been used as models. Moreover, mathematical models are also of great importance to disease modeling. Animal models offer the unique opportunity to investigate the function of genes and pathways and the in vivo effects of drugs, bridging the gap between basic science and the treatment of diseases. The selection of a suitable model system is a crucial step in research design. For disease modeling to be meaningful, a relevant cellular or genetic phenotype must be observed. Without the use of models, both research and clinical practice worldwide would be vastly different today.This Special Issue aimed to publish original research works or reviews with models of disease, highlighting their importance to search for new therapeutic strategies.

This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation casts new light on the links between philosophy and po- etry which enliven Dante’s literary production. In particular, the author considers Aristotelian works as potential vehicles of literary knowledge about, for instance, Homeric characters.

Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare’s place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare’s critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.

Das Reisetagebuch geht zurück auf weltweite Forschungs- und Lehrkontakte. Die Geschichte der phänomenologischen Bewegung wird ergänzt durch eine globale Geographie. Interkulturelle Bezüge erstrecken sich auf Philosophie, Wissenschaft, Kunst, Religion und Alltagsleben. Bekannte Namen tauchen auf wie Boulez, Derrida, Levinas, Ricœur oder Patočka. Autoren wie Joyce, Kafka, Proust und Kierkegaard zeigen sich in ihrem städtischen Umfeld. Streifzüge führen durch das schwarze Harlem. Spuren von Krieg und Gewalt begegnen uns auf den Straßen von Sarajevo oder Bogotà sowie an Gedenkorten in Auschwitz, Kaunas oder Kiew. Die Ränder Europas melden sich in Istanbul, Tbilissi, Tunis und Jerusalem. Der Autor ist ein international bekannter Phänomenologe. The travel diary has its origin in world-wide research and teaching contacts. The history of the phenomenological movement is completed by global geography. Intercultural relations have regard to philosophy, science, art, religion and everyday life. Famous names turn up like Boulez, Derrida, Levinas or Ricœur. Authors like Joyce, Kafka Proust and Kierkegaard appear in their home environment. There are trips crossing the black Harlem. One meets traces of war and violence in the streets of Sarajevo or Bogotà and at the memorial places of Auschwitz, Kaunas or Kiev. The margins of Europe are reached in Istanbul, Tbilisi, Tunis and Jerusalem. The author is an international known phenomenologist.