Why We Are Not What We Think We Are
Extraits
Religion
L'âme du curé d'Ars
" Je suis revenu en ce village à jamais béni. J'ai tâché d'approcher de plus près l'âme illustre qui en fit la renommée et qui en perpétue la gloire... Cette âme, je l'ai retrouvée dans ces humbles choses qui constituent les souvenirs d'Ars et sur lesquelles on veille comme sur un trésor. Cet ouvrage éclaire d'une vive lumière l'âme du Curé d'Ars, c'est-à-dire ses états d'âme... A le suivre, nous y verrons plus clair sur notre route et nous y marcherons plus courageusement. On gagne toujours à vivre en la compagnie d'un tel saint. "
01/2005
Sciences historiques
L'art héraldique au Moyen Age
Apparu au XIIe siècle sur les champs de bataille et de tournoi pour servir de signes de reconnaissance aux combattants, l'usage des armoiries se diffuse rapidement dans la classe seigneuriale. Par la suite, il s'étend progressivement aux femmes, aux prélats, aux bourgeois et même, dans certaines régions, aux artisans et aux paysans. Un peu plus tard, cet usage touche les communautés civiles et religieuses. A la fin du Moyen Age, toute la société européenne fait ou peut faire usage d'armoiries. A la fois signes d'identité, marques de possession et ornements décoratifs, celles-ci prennent place sur de nombreux objets, oeuvres d'art, édifices et monuments. Dès le XIIIe siècle, les églises elles-mêmes deviennent de véritables "musées d'armoiries". Partout, la représentation de ces dernières, rigoureusement codée, donne naissance à un art original : l'art héraldique, dont l'apogée se situe au XVe siècle. L'ouvrage de Michel Pastoureau retrace cette histoire sociale et artistique des armoiries au Moyen Age. Il présente les principales règles du blason, montre comment l'image héraldique n'est en rien une image comme une autre et s'attarde sur la signification des figures et des couleurs. C'est pour lui l'occasion de corriger un certain nombre d'idées reçues et de mettre en valeur l'influence que les armoiries ont exercée dans la longue durée. Aujourd'hui encore, la plupart des drapeaux, des logos, des insignes militaires, des emblèmes sportifs et même des panneaux du code de la route apparaissent comme les héritiers des armoiries médiévales.
03/2018
Littérature française
Le chat ne confie pas son âme aux étrangers
Les soirs sont d'ordinaire très animés chez les Wila de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. Chacun des trois membres que constitue la famille raconte sa journée à tour de rôle, dans un jeu de stand-up dont eux seuls possèdent le talent. Kofi ouvre la scène, Taraji suit entre deux et Malouba tombe le rideau. Ce soir, il a des choses à leur raconter : le coup de fil de Daphné, sa conversation avec Nico, les souvenirs de l'Anihé réveillés en lui par la Dordogne et le supplice de la chapelle des pénitents. Cependant, Kofi ne se sent pas la force de monter sur scène. Il s'excuse auprès de son fils et de sa femme qui le laissent s'en aller à son plumard. Il est visiblement encore hanté par l'image de ces abeilles qui semblent lui destiner un message effroyable. Mell-Bo Pana, de son vrai nom Mell-Boris Déhdénô Pana est de nationalité togolaise. Il réside en France depuis 2017. Avant de quitter le Togo, il exerce différents métiers de la communication (rédacteurs de contenus en agence, journaliste de la presse culturelle et chargé de projets évènementiels) à Lomé. Il est titulaire du diplôme d'Etat de Brevet de Technicien Supérieur en communication des entreprises, obtenu en 2000 à Abidjan en Côte d'Ivoire. Le chat ne confie pas son âme aux étrangers est son premier roman.
10/2023
Littérature française
Sons of Fantasy
When we were children, we believed anything was possible... This book is a fantasy novel originally written for children. But, if you are a father or a mother, a teacher or a writer, if you still have some bits of fantasy in your soul... then, this novel is for you too. We all know how geniuses changed the world with their childlike Imagination, and how people use creative thinking to solve problems. This is a story about hope ; "Sons of Fantasy" shares the story of M. Alger, a father grieving for the loss of his dear wife, who left him with two beautiful kids. Norris and Socrates were adjusting to life without Mom... But things got more complicated when one of them was paralyzed because of a severe psychological trauma due to an overdose of fantasy... This family has a very interesting neighbor who lives a few feet away. He has a weird little hobby, reading books in the most unlikely places... He for example travelled to Romania and read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in the Castelul Bran Castle, because it's said that the main character Dracula lived in it. And then all of a sudden he stopped travelling... He got a month ago a big long hat that belongs to the greatest witch that lived during the middle ages, "Moje Gayla". In fact, after being burned by the church, one of her relatives kept her belongings inside a wooden box... and in the twentieth century one of her grandchildren donated the box to "The Magic Square Museum" in London. Genius bought the hat at a public auction as an art relic to decorate one of his rooms. Could this weird neighbor be the reason of Socrates' psychological trauma ? Or maybe he is the one who will cure him ? And what has the hat to do with all this ?
08/2018
Non classé
Literary Marriages
A series of intertextual short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 1972, constitutes the subject-matter of the present work. Having entered into ‘literary marriages' with beloved masters, such as Kafka, Joyce, Thoreau, Flaubert, James and Chekhov, Oates has ‘re-imagined' their classic masterpieces. This study aims at finding out whether Oates remains ‘faithful' to the original versions. What elements besides the titles are retained, or added ? Why does a young American woman writer undertake a dialogue with deceased authors and their texts ? Why the short story genre ? What is Oates's relationship to intertextuality, literary tradition, or the very aesthetics of her own art ? Grounded in theories of intertextuality, comparative analyses show that Oates remains ‘faithful' in some of her spiritual unions, while committing ‘infidelities' in others. For a woman writer in the 1970s transgression was a necessity for survival ; these stories thus belong to the revisionary movement. While assimilating and engendering a strongly Eurocentred male literary tradition, Oates manages to unlock energy from the original stories transforming them into expressions of her very own distinct literary voice.
12/2001
Archéologie
Fantastic Beasts in Antiquity. Looking for the monster, discovering the Human, Textes en français et anglais
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
02/2021
Beaux arts
L'art de l'âge moderne. L'esthétique et la philosophie de l'art du XVIIIE siècle à nos jours
L'esthétique est à la mode. Travaux et analyses se multiplient. Tous prétendent renouveler le sujet alors que la plupart puisent à la même source : la tradition spéculative de l'Art qui affirme que l'Art est un savoir extatique. Celui-ci révélerait des vérités transcendantes, inaccessibles aux activités intellectuelles profanes. En cela, il occuperait aujourd'hui la place qui incombait autrefois à la religion. La tradition implique donc que les arts soient sacralisés, mais aussi, par le même mouvement, opposés aux autres activités humaines - à l'exception fort évidemment de la philosophie. Il revient, en effet, à cette dernière de dévoiler ce qu'est la nature ultime de l'Art : une théorie de l'Etre, cependant qu'il revient à l'esthétique de convaincre chacun qu'il existe une réalité suprasensible singulière qui ne se révèle que par le truchement de la spéculation métaphysique. Jean-Marie Schaeffer, après une lecture critique et généalogique de ce système spéculatif dont nous vivons actuellement la crise profonde, définit ce que pourrait être une expérience esthétique alternative, qui permette de vivre ce que la tradition nous fait manquer : comment voir un tableau si l'on refuse de croire à l'existence d'un arrière-monde ? Comment oublier l'Art afin de redécouvrir les arts dans leur richesse particulière et multiforme ? Comment, enfin, fonder une expérience esthétique commune dès lors que l'on renonce à la conformité des oeuvres aux essences et au Beau ?
01/1992
Lectures graduées
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who believes in the American Dream. He has spent his whole career on the road, going all over New England to sell products. At sixty, he is far from retiring : he needs to keep on working to earn money in order to pay his mortgage and loans. But he does not sell as much as he used to and struggles to make ends meet. His relationship with his elder son, Biff, is chaotic : he does not understand why his son does not live up to his expectations. Thus, they fight all the time. But at the heart of the tension between them lies a secret that only the two of them know... Death of a Salesman explores the depth and complexity of human relationships and shows what happens when a man gets lost in his own dreams.
08/2021
BD tout public
L'âge de bronze Tome 3 : Trahison. 1re partie
Pour atteindre Troie, l'armée d'Agamemnon doit d'abord passer par l'île de Ténédos. Les lances pleuvent et beaucoup d'hommes meurent. Mais quand la poussière retombe, Achille se rend compte qu'il a surtout précipité son tragique destin. Les problèmes de l'armée s'accumulent. Pour servir ses intérêts, Agamemnon entretient la tension palpable entre les différents chefs. Il met même l'habile Ulysse à contribution pour aggraver le conflit déjà présent entre Palamède et Achille. Pendant ce temps, les Troyens rassemblent leurs forces en prévision du combat. Les heureux dénouements, comme la réconciliation de Enée et Priam ou le mariage d'Hector et Andromaque, masquent mal l'appréhension des habitants de Troie... Trahison fière partie poursuit le récit illustré de la Guerre de Troie. Les dessins documentés et les dialogues soignés d'Eric Shanower donnent une nouvelle vie à cette épopée antique.
11/2016
Spiritisme
Orion Recall - Version anglaise
"Greetings, beloved peoples of the One. Welcome to the sacred and consecrated space from which I now address you : the space where the 12 An Master Crystals of Orion reside. The time has come for you to remember who you are and learn about your galactic heritage. Many of you have fought in the great wars that began on Orion. That's why you need to learn the truth-so you can free yourselves from the past and turn your full attention to the Plan that brought you here to this planet called Earth. These Memoirs will help you understand". Are you one of the volunteers living on this magnificent planet working to bring an end to the great conflicts between the evolved and devolved forces-conflicts that originated in Orion's solar systems and converged to Earth millenniums ago ? Find out how it all began, from when a Messenger from the 24 Elders first gave instructions to the High Council of Sirius to the moment when Plan Earth Rising was put into action. The path you take matters now more than ever because your conscious choices determine how your individual and collective solar beings are integrated. This integration is the key to activating your beloved planet as one of the twelve galactic libraries, the one on which everything depends. This book is a summons to the volunteer souls : Remember Mintaka. Remember the reason you are here at the start of a major new evolutionary cycle-for your sphere of life and for the entire Galactic Federation.
10/2022
Non classé
The Concept of Man in Igbo Myths
In the vast silence of their isolation, the traditional Igbos have learnt the ways of living in harmony with nature. From their origin in distant time, they have kept a sacred perspective on the natural world. In our age, there is the need for traditional wisdoms to retain their validity and be intrinsic to our philosophic and scientific perceptions of the cosmos. We cannot do without their knowledge, their spiritual perspective, and their deep faith in the harmony of all nature. Ignoring these qualities has profound environmental implications. Global warming, environmental pollution, and the exhaustion of nature's resources are but a few of the symptoms of the nature's experiences as we continue to mistreat it in order to satisfy our own ends. This work helps us to realise that wherever we are, we are a part of nature. All the things around us are as presences, representing forces and powers of life that are not ours and yet are all part of us. Then we find them reflecting in ourselves, because we are nature, though not identical with it.
11/1999
Photographie
Women are Heroes. 4e édition
Le projet de JR, dont Women are heroes est le 3e volet, après 28 millimètres et Face 2 Face parus chez Alternatives, consiste à réaliser, avec un objectif de 28 millimètres, des portraits de "gens du commun" et à les afficher dans la rue. Ici, les femmes kenyannes, brésiliennes, indiennes ou cambodgiennes sont à l'honneur. Elles ne font jamais la une de l'actualité mais sont les vrais piliers de leur société, malgré guerres ou violences du quotidien. Une pratique artistique comme élément de discussion, pour traiter de sujets d'actualité de manière innovante, provocatrice et objective. Son travail mélange l'art et l'action, parle d'engagement, de liberté, d'identité et de limite.
11/2012
Sociologie
Âge et art contemporain : quelles approches ?. 3
Ce nouveau Cahier du CIS. H répond aux questions que pose la rencontre de la séniorité et de l'art, sur un terrain résolument interdisciplinaire, illustrant la diversité des attitudes et des démarches de l'artiste contemporain : art urbain, littérature, peinture, musique, danse... Autre enjeu majeur abordé ici : que peut proposer la séniorité en solidarité avec toutes les générations ? Dans une société à la perception ambiguë du vieillissement, l'accent porte essentiellement sur les représentations du grand âge déjà en place et leurs évolutions. Enfin, les différents conditionnements auxquels sont confrontés les artistes sont examinés, et en particulier celui de la sénescence : leurs créations ultimes sont-elles marquées par le déclin physique ou, au contraire, progressent-elles dans une inépuisable richesse ? A ces questions délicates, l'ouvrage propose des réponses éminemment individuelles, rythmées par les grands moments de l'existence.
06/2022
Littérature française
Les inventeurs. Essai
What do Christopher Columbus, Reneke, Zénobe Gramme and Louis Pasteur have in common ? They were all inventors. Well fine, but who invented the crab's claw, the suction cups and the flight of squids or the proboscis of blood sucking insects ? Is invention intellectual fantasy, an industrial tool or a fundamental biological reaction ? How is this riddle to be solved ? Should we go through the list of inventions or inventors ? Is it a question of circumstances or motivations ? Who is in charge ? The Material or the Spirit ? In order to try to find a way of answering these questions, first a few very different inventors and their inventions will be presented. A few paradoxes emerge from this first part. Then we will devote an entire chapter to an exceptional inventor whose extraordinary work revolutionized how we now approach this topic. Finally, what can be said about all the inventions like the wings of birds or butterflies, the eyes of fish or insects, the leaves of trees or the social organization of beehives ? In these cases, man is not the inventor. There are countless marvels like these in the world around us. Can we explain them ? This will be the subject of the third part of this essay.
02/2017
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Monographies
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period
This stunning catalogue presents an exceptional collection of rare Burmese silver. Accompanied by detailed photographs and explanatory texts, this ground-breaking book proposes a new way of looking at Burmese silver. Names, dates, places, and stories - identifying the who, when, where, and what of Burmese silver has been the focus of publications on the topic. Are these questions the best way to understand silver, however ? Alexandra Green argues that they are not. Too few pieces provide reliable information about silversmiths, production locations, and dates to allow for a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Instead, a close examination of silver patterns reveals strong links with Burmese art history reaching as far back as the Bagan period (11th to 13th centuries), connections with contemporary artistic trends, and participation within the wider world of silversmithing. The first European to write about Burmese silver was H L Tilly, a colonial official from the late 19th into the early 20th century. Tasked with collecting objects for various fairs and exhibitions, he took an interest in Burmese art, publishing articles and books from the 1880s onwards. While much of what he wrote was factually inaccurate and coloured by the prejudices and stereotypes common at the time, his two volumes on Burmese silver published in 1902 and 1904 contain pictures of pieces from the early to mid 19th century. These enable a reconstruction of how silver designs evolved as the country was absorbed into the Indian Raj, and British and other Westerners became consumers of local silver products. Tilly was also correct in his interest in silver designs. Green uses the visual information from his books to describe the continuities and innovations of designs found on silver from the mid 19th through the mid 20th century, and she places these trends within local, regional, and global flows of ideas. Many studies of Burmese silver have been plagued by a lack of understanding of the Burmese context. In contrast, Green examines silver from a local perspective, drawing on Burmese texts and information that allows for a nuanced view of the motifs, designs, and patterns that appear repetitively on silver pieces. Using Graham Honeybill's collection, formed over many years, as a basis, she explores how designs and patterns circulated around the country and were innovatively combined and recombined on pieces by silversmiths producing objects for Burmese, Western, and commercial clients.
09/2022
Religion
Corporatism and the Stability of Capitalist Democracies
This dissertation treats a problem which originally stems from Marxist political economic thinking : why do representatives of the working-class compromise with representatives of the capitalist class on major socio-economic topics on a national level, and what do such compromises look like ? The author establishes the claim that macro-economic compromises between organized classes are both likely to result and unstable in their nature. It is shown how the state may act as an actor supporting the establishment of an institutionalized class compromise and how it may try to prevent the breakdown of it. After elaborating these claims in a dynamic macro-economic model, the author describes developments of class compromises in post World War II Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands to illustrate the theory.
02/1991
Beaux arts
Dictionnaire d'histoire de l'art du Moyen Age occidental
De la mystérieuse Notre-Dame de Paris décrite par Victor Hugo aux livres de la bibliothèque maléfique dans la version filmée par Jean-Jacques Annaud du Nom de la rose d'Umberto Eco, les œuvres d'art du Moyen Age font partie de notre imaginaire. Mais l'art du Moyen Age appartient aussi à notre réalité quotidienne, celle de nos villes et campagnes européennes peuplées de cathédrales gothiques, d'abbayes et de châteaux. Ce dictionnaire permet de découvrir ou de redécouvrir l'histoire d'un patrimoine exceptionnel. Plus de quatre-vingts chercheurs et spécialistes livrent ici les clefs d'un passé qui, tout en demeurant par bien des aspects ambigu sinon parfois confus, ne cesse de passionner. Comment s'organisait la vie des artisans sur le chantier d'une cathédrale ? Quels étaient les grands axes d'échanges culturels en Europe ? Par quelles techniques réussissait-on à produire les vitraux des églises, les trésors d'orfèvrerie, les tapisseries millefleurs ? A quel maître, à quel atelier doit-on cette peinture murale, ce retable ou ce livre d'heures ? Comment distinguer l'art roman de l'art carolingien ? La plupart des questions que le grand public comme les étudiants et les connaisseurs de l'art médiéval peuvent se poser trouvent ici des réponses précises et complètes, en restant claires et synthétiques. Composé de plus de 1000 notices, ce volume constitue un nouvel outil pratique permettant de parcourir toute la création artistique telle qu'elle fut pensée et mise en œuvre durant les mille ans de notre Moyen Age occidental. Un index recensant près de 4 000 personnes et personnages, 3 000 lieux, plus de 1000 œuvres anonymes et 1 300 sujets complète l'ouvrage.
01/2009
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Physique, chimie
What is energy?
The word 'energy' was used to confuse me. I know that energy is. It is the capacity of a physical system to perform work, the ability to do work. Work is moving something against a force. I also know that without energy life cannot exist. At the same time, I could not picture Energy in my mind to better understand what it is. This book is design to given you a concrete understandasing of that energy is. Remember in reallity, no one can see, touch or observe energy. We can only constact the presence of energy by mouvement, motion and mesure it by its speed. We shall use this opportunity to introduce you to a pattern, the geometric shape torus that holds the key to the fuel of the future, to the world that works for everyone - Clean and universal energy. I consider the torus to be the best ever explanation of our evolutionary process. Evolution means to enfold, to roll out. The question is what the universe is rolling out ? I realised that we are not a mistake, we are simply mistaken. We have been blended to our brilliance, ignorance to our genius, unaware of our true power and magnificence. The Torus, the Zero Point Energy Field = Creation Story
01/2016
Non classé
Debating National Security
The nature of security in the contemporary world is changing rapidly. Superpower detente, the progress and further prospects of arms control, the collapse of East European communist regimes, and German unification, to name but the most spectacular features, present unprecedented challenges not only for political decision-makers, but also for the mass publics in democratic societies. What are the trends of public opinion on these issues and how do they reflect these changes ? By what factors are pertinent public attitudes shaped and what structures do emerge ? How can they be reliably assessed and meaningfully analyzed ? Which demands flow from the dynamics of public opinion that have to be taken into account in security policy making ? These are the key questions addressed by the twelve contributions to this volume. Combining longitudinal and comparative approaches they cover the public dimension of the national security debate in seven Western nations : Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States.
04/1991
Actualité et médias
Performance post-crise
Today's professional environment is dramatically different from that which existed just twenty years ago. The digital revolution is in full swing, and working practices are undergoing some of the biggest changes in history. In addition to this background of change, COVID 19 has had an unprecedented impact on every aspect of modern professional life. This background of change, combined with an additional sudden shock is generating novel challenges, which present difficult questions. What organisational structure is best placed to handle crises such as this ? What are the ingredients of successful remote work ? What is the best way to manage a team remotely ? How should leaders communicate in a crisis ? Beyond these critical issues—and perhaps even more importantly—leaders also need to prepare for the future. How do they ensure the success of an organisation in an uncertain future ? How are they going to secure the talent they need ? To address these questions, this collection brings together contributors from a rich variety of backgrounds, drawing on many combined decades of leadership experience. In addition to sharing answers to many contemporary questions and their personal experience of the recent crisis, they outline their vision of the future of the world of work.
01/2021
Critique
L'art de vivre longuement sous le nom de Médée
L'Art de vivre longuement sous le nom de Médée de Pierre Jacquelot est un régime de santé publié en 1630 à Lyon. Fidèle à la médecine classique, l'auteur sut remodeler le genre du traité d'hygiène et en lui assurant essentiellement une forme littéraire singulière, riche en intertextes poétiques.
06/2021
Théâtre
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira
Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
03/2013
Autres éditeurs (A à E)
Le chat sans nom
Le nouveau livre de Naoko Machida à paraître aux éditions Le Cosmographe après "Seul à la maison". Une histoire de chats, à la fois drôle et sensible, servie par un dessin d'un réalisme saisissant. C'est un chat de gouttière, un petit chat tigré avec de grands yeux verts. Il a des traces de griffures sur la truffe et les oreilles rabattues. Il se promène dans le quartier d'un air penaud. A la différence des autres chats qui se prélassent devant la boulangerie, dans la librairie ou sur les étals du marché, ce petit chat semble n'avoir nulle part où aller. C'est qu'il n'a pas de nom ! Et un chat sans nom, c'est juste un chat errant. C'est un chat sans maison auquel personne ne fait attention. Alors il décide de partir en quête de son nom. Mais comment trouver son nom ? Qui va le-lui donner ? C'est alors qu'une petite fille s'approche...
04/2023
Photographie
Photoquai 2015 - 5e biennale des images du monde. We are family
Créée en 2007 par le musée du quai Branly, la biennale Photoquai présente au public international des artistes dont l'oeuvre est inédite en France. Les quatre premières éditions ont fait découvrir plus de deux cents photographes venus chaque année d'une trentaine de pays différents. Photoquai présente des expositions accessibles gratuitement sur les quais de la Seine, en face du musée, ainsi que dans les jardins attenants. La manifestation propose par ailleurs un dispositif mettant en réseau à la fois des institutions parisiennes partenaires - au premier rang desquelles les galeries d'art contemporain dédiées à la photographie contemporaine -, des espaces de débat avec des professionnels de l'image (écoles d'art, agences et collectifs photographiques, éditeurs internationaux...), des projections, des lectures, etc. Saluée dès sa première édition pour sa pertinence et son originalité, Photoquai poursuit sa mission fondamentale : mettre en valeur et faire connaître des photographes dont l'oeuvre reste inédite ou peu connue en France ; susciter des échanges, des croisements de regards sur le monde. Si les éditions précédentes de Photoquai présentaient des photographes contemporains non occidentaux, en 2015, Frank Kalero propose d'ouvrir le champ géographique et d'élargir la sélection au monde entier, considérant que "les enjeux sociaux, politiques et culturels qui ont inspiré la création de Photoquai sont des sujets globaux, tous interconnectés". Il choisit ainsi d'inscrire le dialogue des cultures dans des "croisements géographiques, mais aussi mentaux et sociaux". Les quarante photographes et leurs oeuvres sont sélectionnés et présentés par Azu Nwagbogu (Afrique), Michket Krifa (Moyen-Orient), Kevin Wy Lee (Asie), Lisa Faktor (Fédération de Russie), Claudi Carreras (Amérique latine), Louise Clements (Monde et nouvelles interactions).
09/2015
Beaux arts
Autodidacts. From Van Gogh to Pirosmani, 1e édition
The symposium will focus on two examples of autodidacts from the nineteenth century, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), as well as on the issues surrounding this notion today. The model of the autodidact appears as a figure that sheds light on our value systems and our patterns of recognition and learning in a world where different conceptions of culture coexist. Over two days, art historians, critics, writers, artists and teachers will gather to discuss autodidacticism through multiple perspectives. The term "autodidact" is generally used to describe someone who has acquired knowledge or skills through their own reading, observations and practice - an approach that is radically different from academic study in the arts, for example, that is validated by institutions. Yet what can we possibly learn if we sacrifice brilliant cultural values on the altar of all- round relativism, where everything is equally valid ? Faced with this relativism, what does one make of the canonical in a globalised and fragmented world ? What to make of an unlearning that cripples the authority of the keepers of knowledge ? These different "cultures of knowledge" presuppose diverse geopolitical realities that are worth interrogating.
01/2021
Histoire ancienne
Ce que l'art préhistorique dit de nos origines
Que nous dit l'art préhistorique des sociétés qui l'ont produit ? À distance des interprétations religieuses communément admises, ce livre suggère d'en repenser la valeur sociale.
Ce n'est pas sans raison, en effet, que l'art des grottes se signale, dès ses origines, par un goût marqué pour l'imitation. L'histoire de l'art nous rappelle à juste titre que le prestige suscité par l'imitation sert toujours les intérêts politiques d'une élite (voir la Grèce athénienne ou la Renaissance florentine). Mais plus encore, le savoir-faire exceptionnel qui est mis en œuvre dans les grottes révèlerait déjà des statuts différenciés entre les individus ; il nécessite à l'évidence un apprentissage et repose de surcroît sur des prédispositions naturelles que tous ne possèdent pas.
La conséquence est majeure : les inégalités ne seraient pas nées, comme on le croit ordinairement, au Néolithique avec l'apparition de l'agriculture, mais dès le Paléolithique récent, en lien avec l'émergence d'un système économique fondé sur le stockage des ressources sauvages. La captation de ces surplus par une minorité aurait ainsi permis l'apparition de lignages dominants, et l'art des grottes aurait, dans cette optique, le rôle clé d'affirmer cette hiérarchie : équivalent d'un code héraldique, il permettrait à une caste de se différencier en se prévalant de ses origines mythiques. D'établir, en somme, les bases d'un « paléocapitalisme » préhistorique.
10/2017
Littérature française
Heroes are Heroes
Heroes are heroes are heroes est le premier livre de Manuel Joseph. Il essaie de faire entrer dans le texte et dans la poésie ce qui leur est en principe le plus étranger : l'image, le son, leurs dérèglements, le bruit, la fureur et la violence contemporaines : l'holocauste et la guerre du Golfe, toutes les guerres et tous les massacres, la publicité, le mensonge politique, l'oppression sous toutes ses formes : soft et hard. Ce livre étonnant, qui porte en lui, très certainement, les ferments de l'un des renouvellements possibles de la littérature, procède par montages, collages et court-circuits.
01/1994
Marketing
Think human. La révolution de l'expérience client
Le client a longtemps été secondaire par rapport au produit et au prix, mais il est aujourd'hui devenu, à l'occasion d'une véritable révolution copernicienne, le centre du commerce. Quelles sont les implications pour les marques ? Quelles sont les clés pour "gagner la bataille du client" , dans un environnement numérique progressivement piloté par l'intelligence artificielle ? Olivier Duha, fondateur de Webhelp, partage dans ce livre sa vision de l'expérience client et défend, à rebours de ce qui est généralement dit ou écrit sur ce sujet, une perspective résolument axée sur l'humain.
11/2022
