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Analyzes the evolution of French culture during the last thirty years as a series of steps towards the acquisition of a second culture by the individual and by the whole civilization. Describes the dynamics of cultural change as a process of interaction and mutual enrichment involving the individual and the culture. (MES)

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In the history of modern illustration, that is in the modernist years 1910-1930, Banalité by Léon-Paul Fargue (texte), with « compositions » by Fabien Loris and Roger Parry, is a truly innovative volume, which maintains however certain aspects of the traditional illustrated book. What is new in this publication is the merger of a classic format, well-known by bibliophile readers, and a new medium, photography, still discarded from the market of rare and expensive books. The authors' attempt to introduce the new into the old is quite similar to what one finds in French modernist typography, as represented by the magazine Arts et métiers graphiques, which adapts the Bauhaus revolution to a broader French audience. At first sight, the book limits itself to conventionally adding images to text, yet these illustrations are complemented by a collective work on the work's layout, which transforms the fundamentally nostalgic text by Fargue into a crucial step in experimental book design in French. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article reports that neither at the summit of the world in a suprematist sense, nor at the end of nature in a teleological or providentialist sense, the man of the humanist Renaissance located himself at the center of the world because, as Daedalus taught to Icarus, he stands in the middle, between high and low, between divinity and animality.

With the advent of fascism, thousands of anti-fascists left Italy to exile in France where they rebuilt their political organizations, trade unions, newspapers, workers' cooperatives and even a publishing house. The exile in France represented a long period of political commitment and collaboration with French socialists and communists. Their support and solidarity have been decisive for spreading the values of anti-fascism among French public opinion and Italian immigrants. Exiles and emigrant women also contributed to anti-fascist actions in France although they had been overlooked by histography. This article seeks to highlight their contribution giving them an identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its first part, the present article presents the role of Peter Geiger as an historian and as cochairman of the Liechtenstein-Czech Commission of Historians. PD Dr. Peter Geiger has been the co-chairman of the Liechtenstein-Czech Commission of Historians for the last ten years. Between 2010 and 2020, he was one of its basic building blocks. In the commission, Associate Professor Geiger dealt mainly with the modern history of Liechtenstein and selected aspects of Liechtenstein-Czech relations. He prepared a crucial article on how frequently Czechoslovak and Czech topics figured in the pages of the Liechtenstein press, and thus what impression the ordinary citizen of the Principality of Liechtenstein could form of the original homeland of their princes. In the context of his research into Liechtenstein continuities and discontinuities, he again described the transformation of Liechtenstein from a somewhat marginal territory within the Liechtenstein states into the centre of life of the princely family. Peter Geiger's professional interest in the Liechtenstein-Czech Commission of Historians was divided between the history of the family and the history of the country and its inhabitants, especially in the area of property gains and losses. He therefore wrote two fundamental studies on the topic of the "Liechtensteins, Liechtenstein and Czechoslovakia in the 20th Century". The first of these deals with the efforts of the Liechtenstein family from 1938–1945 to regain and save the property they lost in connection with the so-called first land reform. Geiger's articles on the expropriation of Liechtenstein citizens living in Czechoslovakia after 1945 can thus be considered a fundamental topic. In the second part of the article, other contributions are then thematised and contextualised; these included in this "Liechtenstein" volume of the Studia Historica Brunensia journal.

Like many industrial calamities that have marked the history of modern and contemporary Japan, the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has given rise to many lawsuits; currently, these involve several thousand plaintiffs from all over Japan. On top of a criminal case against three Tepco executives, there are more than 30 class actions pending against Tepco and the state. These lawsuits raise fundamental questions about the origin of the disaster as well as its future fallouts due to radiation exposure. While the compensation awarded by the judges so far remains low, the court decisions carry a moral and symbolic--even cathartic--importance for the plaintiffs, as well as for contemporary Japan as a whole and for other countries vulnerable to a nuclear disaster. I further argue that these mobilisations are drawn from a legacy of collective lawsuits that have marked Japan over the past 50 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of literary transfer during the period of European Romanticism, by the mean of poetic translation. More specifically we have tried to study systematically the manuscript of the History of Modern Greek Literature of Joseph Dunin - Borkowski (1809-1843), by an analysis of the historical and human context as well as a parallel comparison of poetic translations following the text of the Polish poet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we will synthetically present the main directions and publications of the Franco‑Romanian press from 1848 to 1918. This mapping attempt also allows sketching a picture of identity dilemmas, imagological reflections, cultural transfers and, above all, shaping of a whole diplomatic and political network, reflecting different historical moments and contexts.

In recent years, historians have focused on efforts at the turn of the 20th century by Alejandro Álvarez, Luis María Drago, and Baltasar Brum (all Southern Cone diplomats) to foster continental cooperation by Pan-Americanizing the Monroe Doctrine. Overlooked in this endeavor are the remarkable activities of Colombian author, journalist, and diplomat, Santiago Pérez Triana. Using primary and secondary sources, this article analyzes Pérez Triana’s support of the Drago Doctrine at the 1907 Hague Convention, his speeches at the Pan-American Financial Conference in 1915, and his essays published in Hispania, a journal that he edited between 1912 and 1916, to show how he won the respect of American and European diplomats by emerging as an influential spokesman for Pan-Americanizing the Monroe Doctrine and for hemispheric unity.

The paper deals with a historical polemic concerning the war of Vendée during the French revolution (1793-1799) which is considered by some historians to be the first genocide of modern history. One of them, Reynald Secher, speaks about a "memoricide", which means a murder of historical memory. The paper presents this conception and then tries to verify it on the base of some historical novels written by Royalist and Republican authors all along the 19th century. The conclusion proves that historical memory of Vendée has neither been forgotten nor repressed, but on the contrary, this theme was being used by both sides in their political and ideological conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a tribute to Michel Jeanneret, who died on 3 March 2019, three of his friends, Dominique Brancher, Frank Lestringant and Frédéric Tinguely, recall here the three periods of his output as a literary critic, which span the period between the Renaissance and the Romantics, deliberately rendering permeable the borders which separate centuries and disciplines. In turn, are considered the Renaissance with its shifting boundaries, the different characteristics of the Grand Siècle, and then folly in its different forms, from Erasmus to Nerval. For Michel Jeanneret, criticism was not an exercise confined to a study or relegated within the four walls of a classroom, but was an activity open to life, one which radiates outwards, questioning the present and laying foundations for the future. It was not an activity confined to a particular century, but was always overflowing - and in all directions - out of the constraining compartmentalisation of our specialist fields. For him, the Renaissance was only a point of departure, a mobile base out of which opened broad avenues sweeping through, and almost rending apart, the Classical age, while charting fruitful and at times disturbing paths forward through to our modern day. In the tight fabric of our literary history, Michel Jeanneret has opened up a fertile space, a wide clearing which we here attempt to explore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of recognition is central to the work of the German philosopher and sociologist Axel Honneth. For him, recognition does not refer to the perception of things or beings, but to the moral and intersubjective recognition of people, which, according to Honneth, is at the heart of the social link foundation. The first level of this recognition concerns the emotional relationships and at the very beginning, the relationship between a young child, his mother and his immediate environment. I propose to extend and complete Honneth's analysis of early childhood recognition processes by distinguishing the following aspects: the recognition of the specific age of early childhood during the course of history; the modern recognition of the young child and even the baby as "a person" and their place in institutions such as kindergartens and daycares (using the example of France after the Second World War); the processes of mutual recognition of young children with each other (through cooperating play activities by example); the interactive recognition for young children with deficiencies and difficulties in the current international framework of inclusive education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article reports on the changes in teaching methods during Renaissance period in Europe in 16th century. Topics discussed include, the advent of new methods of transmitting knowledge; synthetic structures like anthologies, encyclopedias, and epithets; and various archival documents. Also being discussed are pedagogy classrooms and the student behaviour.

The late French writer Tony Duvert gave voice, scandalously, to the child-lover he never hid he was. He outlined, with rare precision, a desiring subjectivity struggling for existence in a hostile society, which portrayed him as a criminal. The right to homosexuality; the battle against the condemnation and the repression of underage sexuality; the deconstruction of the scary image of the ‘paedophile’, a bugbear typically represented as a rapist ogre; the invective against parents (the actual source of violence and of the castration forces deployed against children) and the institution of the family (the backbone of a morbid and unjust society); the ferocious criticism towards sexual and emotional capitalism, parenthood and the “bourgeois economic scheme of libidinal investment”: those are some of the themes Tony Duvert deals with in his essays, and on which we focus in this paper.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue on topics including historiography, modern history and history of revolutions.

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Pascal Quignard's work was present in Italy throughout the first half of the 1980s, when Garzanti and Frassinelli published several translations of his books. After, though, the translations began to slow down and over time his work was forgotten. The translations only picked up again in 2014, following an encounter between a psychoanalyst and avid reader of Quignard, and a soprano, the founding director of Analogon, a small publishing house which had thus far been dedicated to music. The «Entelechia» collection was launched, aimed at publishing Pascal Quignard's works. Bute was published in December 2014, followed, in January 2016, by Sull'idea di una comunità di solitari and the previously unpublished Vita e morte di Nitardo. A further publication is planned for early 2017, combining Triomphe du temps and La voix perdue in one volume. Undoubtedly Pascal Quignard's work will soon be much more prominent in Italy, but this editorial project will always have the privilege of having answered the call of this literature, of having sowed some of its seeds, knowing that the smallest stone thrown in the still waters of a lake will inevitably cause some ripples. For this project to come to light, two worlds had to meet - the world of a musician enchanted by words and the world of an author who left «music in suffering». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One might expect a treatise to expose and express, to argue and affirm, but in Pascal Quignard's traité there is a poem. Something unresolved, something that retreats, that resists the stranglehold logic of writing. It is a question of the untreatable, intractable, nature of the treatise. The textual and linguistic alarm bells that leave us staggered, that propel us into the unknown. We approach the cracks of time, the narrative crypt, the limping of syntax, the sentences of the dead. Ineffable silence and "seeing black". Until the failure of the literary criticism that "reasons" appears in all its clarity; until we see the need to invent an unsettled mode of criticism, one that recognises the shamanic power of words, one where thinking draws its energy from the lack in language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reader of Pascal Quignard's work is, we might say, robbed of the faculty of interpretation and reduced to the state of copyist, which is in fact the state that Pascal Quignard also attributes to the author, since it goes hand in hand with a certain desire for all-inclusiveness. This encyclopaedic aspect is boundless and embarks the reader on a sort of odyssey which leads to another figure the writer also associates with the reader, that of the shipwreck victim. Therefore, the act of reading is not related to the notions of invention or originality, although the question of origin repeatedly crops up. The act of reading is seen in its most trivial, sensorial and material form, as a gesture and posture of abandonment. In Petits traités, the "romantic" perspective is connected with the author's fondness for the sordidissima. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Set against the background of the frequent references to the French and Italian Renaissance scattered in Petits traités - particularly in tome VI - and spanning from Marot to Scève, from Du Bellay to Montaigne, from Ariosto to Strozzi, this close reading of the text concerning the Norman kabalist erudite and poet Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie (1541-1598) illustrates many recurrent and intertwining themes and images. The sea or riverside (bridges, vessels and shipwrecks), the starlit sky and the color yellow form a highly symbolic hibernal Flemish landscape. Biographical sketches and death scenes, the identification of the author's life with his work, the solitude and the silent voice of any reader and writer delineate a portrait of the artist. Mystical and philosophical sources and implications of Le Fèvre's work - especially his orphic voyage Encyclie and his Galliade, both structured in circles - are explained in order to draw a parallel between Quignard's Petits traités and Le Fèvre's linguistic dream of reviving the act of creation by reuniting the whole world in a single word. In so far as they are traces and echoes of an originary alphabet, etymology, anagrammatism and toponymy stand out among the means of an obsessive investigation in, and restoration of, the sacred essence of nomination. Defined by the ascensional spirals in his work, Guy's "passion" is a transcendental quest and, at the same time, an obsessive illusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pascal Quignard develops his work against the totalizing ambition of encyclopaedism, by tracking the irrational and the wildness in the depths of our culture. However he is also reviving old forms of encyclopaedism, especially that of the Renaissance. This article attempts to analyze this inactual approach in Petits traités. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the history of Jewish minorities in Italy in medieval and modern times. Topics discussed include, history of Jewish ghettos in Italy, Rome and the states of the Church, Pope as the spiritual leader of the Universal Church, and relationship of Jews with the majority of the society.

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