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Les rapports entre nationalisme, littérature et plus généralement esthétique sont au cœur de ce volume, quatrième de la série « L’Action française. Culture, société, politique ». Comme son principal objet est la sphère littéraire, historiens, historiens ou théoriciens de la littérature ont été sollicités pour étudier revues, institutions et figures plus ou moins connues, favorables, réservées, voire hostiles au mouvement d’Action française. Quelle part la littérature - roman, théâtre, poésie - tient-elle chez les maurrassiens et quelle fonction lui assignent-ils ? Maurras, avant d’être un doctrinaire politique, a été critique et journaliste, et ces activités ont façonné sa manière et son style. Lui-même invite à revenir sur les rapports entre politique et littérature quand il évoque son itinéraire dans Quand les Français ne s’aimaient pas : « Les Lettres nous ont conduit à la Politique, […] notre nationalisme commença par être esthétique. »

This book is dedicated to all the people interested in the CoRoT mission and the beautiful data that were delivered during its six year duration. Either amateurs, professional, young or senior researchers, they will find treasures not only at the time of this publication but also in the future twenty or thirty years. It presents the data in their final version, explains how they have been obtained, how to handle them, describes the tools necessary to understand them, and where to find them. It also highlights the most striking first results obtained up to now. CoRoT has opened several unexpected directions of research and certainly new ones still to be discovered.

Inspiré par un des axes d'enseignement du DEA Sciences de la Ville de l'université François-Rabelais, ce livre croise réflexion méthodologique et études de cas appartenant aux espaces français, allemands, anglais et italiens au long d'une époque moderne largement taillée. Il réunit les contributions de onze historiens de Tours, Angers et Orléans : Florence ALAZARD, Les livrets d'entrées royales : une source pour l'histoire urbaine. Pascal BRIOIST, Hooke et Pepys : deux espaces-vécus du Londre...

This collection of papers presents a reformist project calling upon Muslim intellectuals and scholars everywhere to comprehend the vast breadth and depth of the crisis engulfing Muslim thought today and the necessity of solving this crisis to enable the Ummah to experience a revival and fulfill its role among the nations of the world. The reader will find a variety of articles dealing with this intellectual crises, these include a chapter on ijtihad’s role and history, important since our intellectual problems cannot be solved without the scholars’ use of independent reasoning and creativity. Another discusses imitation (taqlid) calling upon Muslim scholars and intellectuals to abandon imitation and to stop favoring the past over the present when trying to solve modern problems. Another looks at human rights.

En aquest volum del Grup d’Opinió de l’Observatori de Bioètica i Dret, coordinat per la Dra. María Casado i pel Dr. Antoni Vilà, s’analitzen els problemes bioètics específics que afronten les persones amb discapacitat, les quals pateixen un «dèficit de ciutadania» que sovint n’impedeix una plena participació en la vida social com a subjectes de ple dret i en igualtat de condicions. Per a analitzar la situació i presentar les propostes que han d’assegurar l’autonomia personal i la integració social d’aquestes persones, el Grup d’Opinió ha pres com a referència la Declaració Universal sobre Bioètica i Drets Humans de la Unesco (2005) i la Convenció sobre els drets de les persones amb discapacitat de l’ONU (2006), que coincideixen a tractar la discapacitat des de la perspectiva dels drets humans.

Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground offers the most profound and conflicted treatment of the utopian dilemma. Utopian planning, symbolized by the Crystal Palace in London built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, threatens the narrator’s vanity and sense of freedom, yet he cannot conceal from himself the irrational and shameful basis of his resistance to the happiness it represents.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical insights into what a research agenda for COVID-19 and society resembles across different fields of study.

The German legislature amends the German Criminal Code approximately six times per year. Such modifications – and the absence of further such modifications – are shaped and limited by constitutional law, by European and international norms, and by criminal policy decisions. In this thesis, the author analyzes the influences by constitutional law, European (criminal) law and criminal policy on the current evolution of German criminal law, and draws conclusions on the (dynamic) level of legal certainty that is required for provisions of substantive criminal law

This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair trial can be secured through evidence exclusion. Part I explains the legal framework in which exclusionary rules function in six legal systems: Germany, Switzerland, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States. Part II is dedicated to selected issues identified as crucial for the assessment of exclusionary rules. These chapters highlight the delicate balance of interests required in the exclusion of potentially relevant information from a criminal trial and discusses possible approaches to alleviate the legal hurdles involved. ;

The molecular deprivation of oxygen is manifested by hypoxia, a deficiency of oxygen and anoxia, or the absence of oxygen supply to the tissues. This book entitled Hypoxia and Anoxia will cover a broad range of understanding on hypoxia and anoxia from molecular mechanisms to pathophysiology. Hypoxia and anoxia stimulate multiple systems through specific cell signal transduction pathways and regulate several transcriptional factors like HIF-1, REST to encode genes for VEGF, Epo, etc. This book will also highlight different types of hypoxia and anoxia along with their impact on apoptosis, cardiovascular pathophysiology, and glucose regulatory mechanisms. This book will be a ready reckoner to give a deep understanding of the oxygen-sensing environment in vivo for researchers, academicians, and clinicians throughout the world.

Rapid corrective actions, termed automatic postural responses, are essential to counter the destabilizing effect of mechanical perturbations during natural behaviors. Previous research has demonstrated that automatic postural responses of the limbs and body share a number of capabilities in adapting to the prevailing circumstances and these abilities reflect contributions from multiple supraspinal pathways, including brainstem nuclei, basal ganglia, and primary motor cortex. However, we do not know the context-dependent contribution from specific generators, whether different neural pathways have a common role across different effectors, and how sensory and central deficits in one pathway are accommodated by those remaining. Bridging these gaps is essential to integrate the diverse set of studies, develop general theories of motor control, and explicate how the nervous system addresses the partially distinct behavioral demands of co-evolved effector system. The considerable flexibility and multiple interacting pathways of automatic postural responses also make it ideal for understanding how powerful formal theories, like optimal feedback control, are achieved by a distributed hierarchical neural network.

Health is a Constitutional right. So, why is talking about private consumption in healthcare relevant? Does thinking there could be room for further private initiative make sense in a quasi-market? If so, given the issue of constitutionally guaranteed rights, what scope is there and for what needs? These are the questions explored and to which this textbook seeks answers by filling a gap in the management and health policy literature. Rigorously analyzing the trend of private health consumption in the Italian health sector, the implications for the NHS, and proposing conceptual and operational frameworks for those interested in developing entrepreneurial activity in healthcare or consolidating their management skills in the field.

Nem kisebb céllal készült ez a tanulmánykötet, mint hogy megpróbáljon érvényes választ adni olyan kérdésre fiatalabb szociológusok számára, hogy „hogyan dolgozzam fel az interjúimat, mit kezdjek az élettörténetekkel az interjúk felvétele után?” Szándékom volt bemutatni, hogy meddig jutottam el az élettörténeti kutatások feldolgozásával az elmúlt 20 év során, hogyan váltak számomra megfoghatóvá az egyéni és kollektív identitások, amelyek vélhetően társadalmilag fontosak, amelyek megismerésével mélyebb önismeretre s nagyobb önelfogadásra tehet szert a magyar társadalom. A fejezetekben közölt tanulmányok társadalomtörténeti szempontból kronologikus és tematikus elrendezésben követik egymást, egy-egy rövid bevezető szöveg kíséretében. A bevezető szövegekben az élettörténeti interjúk feldolgozási módjára is rámutatok, felhívva az olvasó figyelmét az eredmények mögött húzódó elemzésekre.

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields, this book offers a multi-perspectival and dynamic view of martial culture across time and space. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be overemphasized. Whereas a number of contributors are internationally recognized and, indeed, leading authorities in their respective fields; for example, Jeffrey Shaw has been a world-leading new media artist and scholar since the 1970s, while Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the contemporary founder of Chinese martial studies; and while there are significant overlaps in their research interests, this book brings their research within a single volume for the first time. Equally significant, the book is structured in such a way to reflect the various core aspects of martial studies, particularly in relation to the study of historic sword culture, including history, culture, philosophy, literature and knowledge transmission, material culture, as well as the technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles on martial studies, this book becomes a reference not only for scholars taking an interest in this subject, but also for historians; scholars with interest in Chinese and/or Italian history (particularly of the Medieval or early modern periods), the history of international relations in Asia / Far East; anthropologists; scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers in sword-making and/or historic metallurgy.

Au XIXe siècle, les premiers penseurs et mouvements socialistes se sont enthousiasmés et inquiétés devant le déferlement des techniques annonçant la transformation du travail, l’accélération des transports ou la communication intégrale. Qu’il s’agisse des saint-simoniens, des fouriéristes ou des communistes, tous ont cherché à dompter le nouvel univers machinique pour le mettre au service de l’émancipation. Face aux ravages de la civilisation capitaliste, comment réguler les objets techniques ? Comment les mettre au service de la coopération et du progrès contre les appropriations indues et leurs potentiels destructeurs ? Ces questions toujours vives étaient déjà au cœur de leurs projets.