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La France Galante
by Alain Viala
Published by PUF
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From De La Fontaine, who wrote according to the "gallant taste of his century", to Rameau and his opera of Indes galantes, from the Fêtes Galantes organised at Versailles to the Fêtes Galantes by Watteau, a large and deep aesthetic current runs through the France of the Ancien Régime. It constructs the ideal gallant man, at the same time man of honor, and pleasant companion. This dynamic, linked to the blossoming of new elites, dominates France and Europe. Evident in all the arts, and in the morals of the time, evident equally in romantic morals and the question of the equality of the sexes as in polite behaviour, it establishes the aesthetic of the temperate sensibility and the ethic of respect. more |
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| In Tribus musicales, spiritualité et fait religieux Jean-Louis Bischoff presents the relationship between musical tribes, spirituality and the religious. This is an anthropological, philosophical and critical work.more |
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Tribus musicales, spiritualité, et fait religieux
by Jean-Louis Bischoff
Published by L'Harmattan
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Qu´est-ce qu’un intellectuel européen?
by Wolf Lepenies
Published by Le Seuil
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To sketch the features of the European intellectual, in this course at the Collège de France Wolf Lepenies engages in a fascinating cross-disciplinary analysis of European history from the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to the present. The result is a work that is both erudite and generally accessible. The figure of the intellectual in European history is full of ambiguities and lessons: poised between silence and commitment, he is alternately hero or traitor, vassal of power or opponent of the regime. This supremely topical reflection leads to a fertile line of inquiry: since Europe has been aware that it is - to paraphrase Paul Valéry - mortal, what are the tasks of the intellectual today?more |
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Whereas the feminist movements of the 60´s and 70´s have run their course and the emancipation of women seems to be progressing too slowly today, the question arises of the revival of this committed process. The cost of this slowdown for women and also for society as a whole deserves to be studied.
The French would have succeeded in combining an "honorable" birth rate and a significant female employment rate, but some nuances are to be added to this positive account: close to eight out of ten women ages 25-49 are now active (compared to 42% in 1962), but their jobs are often part-time, and the employment rate for ages 16-64 falls to 50% when recalculated with the full-time equivalent. more |
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Le Deuxième Age de l´émancipation
by Dominique Méda & Hélène Perivier
Published by Le Seuil
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Sibérie, un voyage au pays des femmes
by Anne Brunswic
Published by Actes Sud
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In the winter of 2004 and the spring of 2005, Anne Brunswic traveled twice to Siberia, crisscrossing this region/ continent extensively, a region whose history has primarily been a tragic one, marked by political upheaval and severe economic depression. From the White Sea to the Pacific Ocean, from Yakutia to Birobidjan, from the mines of Kolema to the port of Vladivostok, she decided to seek out the women of Siberia, be they poets, singers, journalists, cooks, professors or museum curators.
Natalya, Tamara, Ludmila, Irina ... they share with her their professional and personal stories, their political and religious beliefs, the tragedies which have touched their families, their bereavement, how they manage in their day-to-day lives, speaking quietly about the dreams they had when they were young.
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