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Ce livre tente de s’interroger sur ce que signifie la lecture de Kafka aujourd’hui, en prenant notamment pour point de départ cette espèce de laboratoire de l’œuvre que constitue le Journal. De cette œuvre on peut dire qu’elle est avant tout une écriture fragmentaire, une pratique qui déplace constamment les frontières du romanesque et de l’« autobiographie ». C’est pourquoi il est apparu nécessaire, dans cette perspective, de reprendre la question du nom propre (sa position entre plusieurs langues, son caractère emblématique, sa dynamique). Car c’est, sans doute, pour Franz Kafka, une des voies d’accès essentielle à l’écriture, une des manières de prendre en compte le poids de la langue allemande. Comment un corps se découvre-t-il délimité et circonscrit dans et par l’ordre humain, c’est-à-dire dans et par les contraintes d’une langue reçue, héritée ? Kafka, dans les histoires qu’il construit, est un écrivain qui cherche sans cesse à énoncer ce qui l’incite et le pousse à écrire. Il ouvre, de cette façon, à nouveau, pour notre siècle, la question même de la littérature, dans son aspect le plus élémentaire, c’est-à-dire le travail d’un sujet incapable d’habiter entièrement la langue dans laquelle il est contraint d’écrire. D’où l’importance qui est accordée, dans ce livre, au petit texte de F. Kafka intitulé Discours sur ta langue yiddish.

Aux lisières de l’Occident chrétien et d’al-Andalus, parcourue par les Pyrénées et bordée par la mer, la Catalogne fut, tout au long du Moyen Age, un carrefour de civilisations, une terre de frontières. Non pas une Catalogne, mais plusieurs. C’est à ces terres et aux hommes qui y vécurent que sont consacrées les dix-huit contributions que regroupe cet ouvrage.

This is a reprint for the Special Issue "Functional Nanoparticles for Environmental Contaminants Removal and Agricultural Application." in Coatings; this reprint includes 12 articles and 1 general review.

During the past decades, the subject of calculus of integrals and derivatives of any arbitrary real or complex order has gained considerable popularity and impact. This is mainly due to its demonstrated applications in numerous seemingly diverse and widespread fields of science and engineering. In connection with this, great importance is attached to the publication of results that focus on recent and novel developments in the theory of any types of differential and fractional differential equation and inclusions, especially covering analytical and numerical research for such kinds of equations. This book is a compilation of articles from a Special Issue of Mathematics devoted to the topic of “Recent Investigations of Differential and Fractional Equations and Inclusions”. It contains some theoretical works and approximate methods in fractional differential equations and inclusions as well as fuzzy integrodifferential equations. Many of the papers were supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under Project KP-06-N32/7. Overall, the volume is an excellent witness of the relevance of the theory of fractional differential equations.

I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model. Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large. The book is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field. Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, describes Economics Fables as a "wonderfully inviting introduction to game theory, rich in personalities, history and sense of place. Ariel Rubinstein is not only a brilliant theorist with a knack for lucid exposition, but a gifted storyteller. Students will find the ideas surprisingly accessible. Aspiring scholars, wondering whether a life of the mind is worth pursuing, will find his personal journey of intellectual discovery thrilling."

Since the great success of graphene, atomically thin-layered nanomaterials, called two dimensional (2D) materials, have attracted tremendous attention due to their extraordinary physical properties. Specifically, van der Waals heterostructured architectures based on a few 2D materials, named atomic-scale Lego, have been proposed as unprecedented platforms for the implementation of versatile devices with a completely novel function or extremely high-performance, shifting the research paradigm in materials science and engineering. Thus, diverse 2D materials beyond existing bulk materials have been widely studied for promising electronic, optoelectronic, mechanical, and thermoelectric applications. Especially, this Special Issue included the recent advances in the unique preparation methods such as exfoliation-based synthesis and vacuum-based deposition of diverse 2D materials and also their device applications based on interesting physical properties. Specifically, this Editorial consists of the following two parts: Preparation methods of 2D materials and Properties of 2D materials

Als Medien- und insbesondere Fernsehphänomen hat Harald Schmidt die TV-Kultur im deutschsprachigen Raum maßgeblich beeinflusst. So ist es der Harald Schmidt Show gelungen, halbironische Sprechweisen diskursfähig zu machen, die bis heute Teil populärkultureller Unterhaltung sind. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger des Bandes untersuchen vor diesem Hintergrund die ›Methode Harald Schmidt‹, d.h. die Unterminierung gängiger Norm- und Wertvorstellungen bei gleichzeitiger Affirmation derselben. Die zentrale These lautet: Harald Schmidt hat grundlegende Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen, im deutschsprachigen Raum eine weitestgehend neuartige Populärkultur ästhetisch und kulturpraktisch zu etablieren.

This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last 20 years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positivist treatment of serial language learning. First, from a diagnostic standpoint, the book examines the rise and consolidation of the Polyglot Community in the sociopolitical and economic context of its gradual transformation into and partial overlap with the Polyglot Industry and its ideological tenets (the Polyglot Matrix). Second, from a prognostic standpoint, the book posits Critical Polyglot Studies (CPS) as a much-needed counter to the many theoretical and practical shortcomings of the Polyglot Industry-cum-Matrix, presenting the main programmatic points and illustrative best practices and institutional case studies of this alternative paradigm. CPS is conceived as both a research orientation and as a strategic attempt to elicit debate and draw in a wider range of polyglossia scholars, offering readers with actionable tools to contribute to this emerging academic and activist endeavor. Constituting the first critical and systematic analysis of polyglossia as a globalized phenomenon, this book will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, cultural studies, critical theory, and sociology.

This book is an intellectual history of the ‘New Haven School’, a school of legal theory and practice associated with Yale Law School in the city of New Haven. New Haven School ‘policy-oriented jurisprudence’—so-called for its emphasis on using law to pursue acknowledged policy aims—was developed from the 1940s by Harold Lasswell, a central figure of twentieth-century American political science, and Myres McDougal, a prominent international lawyer. The book argues that the New Haven School style of argument was representative of mid-century American international law. Through the biographies and scholarship of Lasswell, McDougal, and New Haven School members, and using previously unexploited archival materials, the book explores how this body of legal theory was shaped and how it influenced the legal arguments made by McDougal and other members of the school in support of Cold War anti-communist policy positions and legal practice of the United States. The book shows that the New Haven School represented a specific anti-formalism and a collection of methods that characterized how American scholars and lawyers practised international law in the middle of the twentieth century, and still do today.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

Since the concept of micro total analysis systems (µ-TAS) has been advocated, various kinds of micro/nano devices have been developed by researchers in many fields, such as in chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electric engineering, biology, and medicine, among others. The analytical techniques for small sample volumes, using the micro/nano devices, heavily impacted the fields of biology, medicine and biotechnology, as well as analytical chemistry. Some applications (DNA analysis, point-of-care testing (POCT), etc.) are already commercially available, and various applications will soon be put into practical use. In this Special Issue, we focus on chemical and biochemical analyses (analytical and sensing techniques) using the various types of the micro/nano devices, including micro/nanofluidic devices, paper-based devices, digital microfluidics, and biochip (DNA, protein, cell) arrays. We are also interested in hyphenated devices with other conventional analytical instruments, and the pretreatment devices and components (valve, pump, etc.) for analysis/assay.

The text deals with five letters from Sonderliche Polnisch-Deutsche Missiven und Zuschrifften… by Johannes Ernesti, published in Leszno at the beginning of the 18th century (1705). Interest in them was caused by their subject, unusual for letters used in teaching foreigners Polish correspondence. These are topics about marital infidelity, torturing witches, asking for a speedy death of a criminal, certificates of virtuous birth and ordering a new carriage. These texts are an interesting information about a Baroque customs and mentality, but they differ from typical merchant letters.

There is a growing body of evidence that infectious agents or their products contribute to events leading to unexpected infant deaths. This issue summarizes the current information on the interactions between genetic background of the infant, environmental and developmental risk factors, and the microbial flora of the infant that could trigger lethal responses to common infections.

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution.

The essay proposes a reflection on narrative and storytelling, on the idea of the subject and personal identity, based on Ricoeur's philosophy but from a broader constructivist and bio-psycho-social perspective. Narrative as the construction of meaning and the construction of coherence becomes, in this sense, a lens through which to look at the new philosophies of mind and their fruitful interaction with psychology and cognitive neuroscience.