Download or read book This is Not Just a Painting written by Bernard Lahire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were rediscovered in the 1980s and one was passed from hand to hand, from a family who had no idea of its value to gallery owners and eventually to the museum. A painting that had been sold as a decorative object in 1986 for around 12,000 euros was acquired two decades later by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon for 17 million euros. What does this remarkable story tell us about the nature of art and the way that it is valued? How is it that what seemed to be just an ordinary canvas could be transformed into a masterpiece, that a decorative object could become a national treasure? This is a story permeated by social magic the social alchemy that transforms lead into gold, the ordinary into the extraordinary, the profane into the sacred. Focusing on this extraordinary case, Bernard Lahire lays bare the beliefs and social processes that underpin the creation of a masterpiece. Like a detective piecing together the clues in an unsolved mystery he carefully reconstructs the steps that led from the same material object being treated as a copy of insignificant value to being endowed with the status of a highly-prized painting commanding a record-breaking price. He thereby shows that a painting is never just a painting, and is always more than a piece of stretched canvass to which brush strokes of paint have been applied: this object, and the value we attach to it, is also the product of a complex array of social processes – with its distinctive institutions and experts – that lies behind it. And through the history of this painting, Lahire uncovers some of the fundamental structures of our social world. For the social magic that can transform a painting from a simple copy into a masterpiece is similar to the social magic that is present throughout our societies, in economics and politics as much as art and religion, a magic that results from the spell cast by power on those who tacitly recognize its authority. By following the trail of a single work of art, Lahire interrogates the foundations on which our perceptions of value and our belief in institutions rest and exposes the forms of domination which lie hidden behind our admiration of works of art.
Download or read book Report of the Proceedings of the International Co operative Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L puisement du biographique written by Vincent Broqua and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi penser le biographique? N'est-il pas épuisé? Le siècle passé semble l'avoir vidé de son contenu et de sa substance et l'a réduit à un état d'affaiblissement presque complet dans le domaine des sciences sociales comme dans celui de la critique littéraire. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est d'affirmer que le biographique déborde la biographie et de considérer le biographique comme une condition du retour de la biographie au moyen de son dépassement. Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux abordant ...
Download or read book Las almas heridas written by Boris Cyrulnik and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las almas heridas es un libro sobre las huellas de la infancia, la necesidad del relato y los mecanismos de la memoria, elementos desarrollados a partir de la narración de sus vivencias personales hasta su adolescencia. Boris Cyrulnik, un joven cuyas inquietudes intelectuales ya se encaminan por las lindes de la psiquiatría, y que realiza sus primeras prácticas en un asilo para enfermos mentales (donde quedará en shock tras comprobar el aislamiento y las malas prácticas a las que son sometidos los pacientes: lobotomías, camisas de fuerza, etc.). Su nueva obra Les ames blessées (Las almas heridas) no es ni una autobiografía ni un libro de historia de la psiquiatría: se trata de un testimonio personal sobre el nacimiento de una disciplina difícil y apasionante que denominamos psiquiatría.
Download or read book Aspects sociaux et conomiques de la vie religieuse dans l Anatolie gr co romaine written by Pierre Debord and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- SANCTUAIRES, COMMUNICATIONS ET COMMERCE -- LES SANCTUAIRES A VOCATION THÉRAPEUTIQUE -- APPENDICE I -- INTRODUCTION -- LE CLERGÉ -- LE PERSONNEL SUBALTERNE -- APPENDICE II -- APPENDICE III -- L'ÉVOLUTION DU DOMAINE SACRÉ A L'ÉPOQUE GRÉCO-ROMAINE -- STRUCTURES AGRAIRES ET TERMINOLOGIE -- APPENDICE IV -- INTRODUCTION -- LE «BUDGET» DES SANCTUAIRES -- L'ACCUMULATION DES RICHESSES -- APPENDICE V -- INTRODUCTION -- L'ADMINISTRATION DES SANCTUAIRES -- L'ATTITUDE DU POUVOIR TEMPOREL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES - INTRODUCTION -- NOTES - PREMIÈRE PARTIE -- NOTES - DEUXIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - TROISIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - QUATRIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - CINQUIÈME PARTIE -- INDEX ANAL YTIQUE -- II. INDEX PAR MATIÈRES -- INDEX DES PRINCIPAUX MOTS GRECS -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.
Download or read book Science Fables and Chimeras written by Philippe Murillo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of science provides numerous examples of the way in which imagination, religion and mythology have sometimes helped and sometimes hindered scientific progress. While established ideas and beliefs clearly held back the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin, the intuitive knowledge found in mythology, art and religion has often proved useful in indicating new ways in which to explore or represent new knowledge of the world. Stories, fables and images have contributed to drawing a fuller picture of the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. The essays in this book, written by academics, writers and artists from various fields ranging from La Fontaine’s fables to nanotechnology and modern art, all point out the ways in which imagination works its way into all the fields of knowledge. At both ends of the spectrum, the hybrid nature of the chimera emerges as a pivotal symbol of both man’s predation instinct and a powerful symbol of his fear of extinction. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together visual representation, literature, mysticism, and science, will appeal to historians of science, philosophy, art and religion. It will also be of interest to scholars in cultural studies and anthropology. Drawing on recent scientific research and artistic production, the volume will additionally interest a wider audience wishing to learn more about man’s obsession and fascination with the potent symbolism of dinosaurs and dragons and all hybrid forms generated by the human imagination and recent technology.
Download or read book Les conditions de p n tration et de diffusion des cultes gyptiens en Italie written by Malaise and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- LES PORTEURS DE NOMS THÉOPHORES ISIAQUES -- L'APPARTENANCE ETHNIQUE ET LA SITUATION SOCIALE DES ISIAQUES D'ITALIE -- LA SITUATION PROFESSIONNELLE ET ÉCONOMIQUE DES ISIAQUES D'ITALIE -- LES PRÊTRES -- LES INITIÉS ET LES FIDÈLES -- RAISONS DE LA FOI ISIAQUE: CONVICTION RELIGIEUSE OU OPPORTUNISME POLITIQUE? -- LES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS ATTESTÉS EN ITALIE ET LEUR RÉPARTITION -- LA NATURE DES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS EN ITALIE -- LE CULTE -- LES AUTEURS LATINS ET LA RELIGION ÉGYPTIENNE -- INTRODUCTION. IMPORTANCE DES RELATIONS COMMERCIALES. PÉNÉTRATION EN DEUX PHASES -- LA SICILE ROMAINE -- LES TRAFIQUANTS ITALIENS EN GRÈCE ET DANS LES ÎLES DE LA MER ÉGÉE -- LES TRAFIQUANTS ITALIENS EN ASIE MINEURE -- LA RÉPUBLIQUE ROMAINE ET L'ÉGYPTE PTOLÉMAÏQUE -- LA PROVINCE ROMAINE D'ÉGYPTE ET L'ITALIE -- L'EXTENSION DES CULTES ÉGYPTIENS: LES SITES ISIAQUES D'ITALIE -- NATURE ET EMPLACEMENT DES SITES ISIAQUES EN ITALIE -- ESSAI SUR LES VOlES DE PÉNÉTRATION A L'INTÉRIEUR DE L'ITALIE -- LA POLITIQUE RELIGIEUSE AVANT L'ENTRÉE DES CULTES ISIAQUES -- LES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS DE SYLLA A OCTAVE -- LES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS D'AUGUSTE A OTHON: DES PERSÉCUTIONS AUX EMPEREURS ÉGYPTOPHILES -- LES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS PROTECTEURS DES FLAVIENS -- LES ANTONINS: DE LA NEUTRALITÉ DE TRAJAN A L'ENGOUEMENT DE COMMODE -- LES SÉVÈRES ET L'APOGÉE DES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS -- L'EFFACEMENT DES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS SOUS L'ANARCHIE MILITAIRE ET LES EMPEREURS ILLYRIENS -- LE IVe SIÈCLE: LES DIEUX ÉGYPTIENS AU SERVICE DE LA RÉACTION PAÏENNE -- L'IMPORTANCE DES CULTES ÉGYPTIENS -- LES RAPPORTS DES CULTES ÉGYPTIENS AVEC LES CULTES ORIENTAUX -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX ANALYTIQUE.
Download or read book Compilation and Creation in Adab and Lu a written by Albert Arazi and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1999 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected contents of this volume (1999), collected in memory of Naphtali Kinberg: Rachel Milstein, "The Evolution of a Visual Motif: The Temple and the Ka'ba"; Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, "A Certain Laugh: Serious Humor and Creativity in the Adab of Ibn al-Gawzi"; Aryeh Levin, "Sibawayhi's Attitude to the Language of the Quran"; Kees Versteegh, "Loanwords from Arabic and the Merger of d/d"; Toufic Fahd, "Adab: Poesie, Prose, Proverbes"; Richard C. Steiner, "Philology as the Handmaiden of Philosophy in R. Saadia Gaon's Interpretation of Genesis 1:1"; Dominique et Marie-Therese Urvoy, "Un aspect particulier de relation entre adab et falsafa"; Joseph Sadan, "Arabic Tom 'n Jerry Compositions: A Popular Composition on a War between Cats and Mice and a Maqama on Negotiations and Concluding Peace between a Cat and a Mouse"; Ulrich Marzolph, "Adab in Transition: Creative Compilation in Nineteenth-Century Print Tradition"; David Wasserstein, "A West-East Puzzle: On the History of the Proverb 'Speech in Silver, Silence in Golden." Israel Oriental Studies has ceased publication with volume 20.
Download or read book La pr hension du r el written by Andre Coret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le réel est (réellement) non représentable: telle est la découverte majeure que les scientifiques et les physiciens en particulier, ont faite pour leur compte au cours du XXe siècle. Mais, le savent-ils? The real is (really) unrepresentable: this is the major discovery that scientists and physicists in particular have made on their own during the twentieth century.
Download or read book Bibliographie gantoise recherches sur la vie et les travaux des imprimeurs de Gand written by Ferdinand François E. van der Haeghen and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hiding the Guillotine written by Emmanuel Taïeb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a fascinating exploration of a grim subject, Emmanuel Taïeb exposes the rituals and theatrical form of the death penalty and tells us who watched, who participated in, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle that the state called "punishment." France's abolition of the death penalty in 1981 has long overshadowed its suppression of public executions over forty years earlier. Since the Revolution, executions attracted tens of thousands of curious onlookers. But, gradually, there was a shift in attitude and the public no longer saw this as a civilized pastime. Why? Combining material from legal archives, police files, an executioner's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to 566 executions, Hiding the Guillotine answers this question. Taïeb demonstrates the ways in which the media was at the vanguard of putting an end to the publicity surrounding the death penalty. The press had ample reason to be critical: cities were increasingly being used for leisure activity and prisons for those accused of criminal activity. The agitation surrounding each execution, coupled with a growing identification with the condemned, would blur these boundaries. Ranked among the top hundred history books by the website, Café du Web Historizo, Hiding the Guillotine has much to impart to students of legal history, human rights, and criminology, as well as to American historians.
Download or read book Homo Juridicus written by Alain Supiot and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse. He argues that the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it is not simply a technique to be manipulated at will: it is also an expression of the core beliefs of the West. We must recognize its universalizing, dogmatic nature and become receptive to other interpretations from non-Western cultures to help us avoid the clash of civilizations. In Homo Juridicus, Supiot deconstructs the illusion of a world that has become “flat” and undifferentiated, regulated only by supposed “laws” of science and the economy, and peopled by contract-makers driven only by the calculation of their individual interests. Such a liberal perspective is nothing but the flipside of the notion of the withering away of law and the state, promoted this time not under the banner of the struggle between classes, but rather in the name of the free competition between sovereign individuals. Supiot’s exploration of the development of the legal subject—the individual as formed through a dense web of contracts and laws—is set to become a classic work of social theory.
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vincent de Paul the Lazarist Mission and French Catholic Reform written by Alison Forrestal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform offers a major re-assessment of the thought and activities of the most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations for de Paul's prominence in the dévot reform movement that emerged in the wake of the Wars of Religion, the volume explores how he turned a personal vocational desire to evangelize the rural poor of France into a congregation of secular missionaries, known as the Congregation of the Mission or the Lazarists, with three inter-related strands of pastoral responsibility: the delivery of missions, the formation and training of clergy, and the promotion of confraternal welfare. Alison Forrestal further demonstrates that the structure, ethos, and works that de Paul devised for the Congregation placed it at the heart of a significant enterprise of reform that involved a broad set of associates in efforts to transform the character of devotional belief and practice within the church. The central questions of the volume therefore concern de Paul's efforts to create, characterize, and articulate a distinctive and influential vision for missionary life and work, both for himself and for the Lazarist Congregation, and Forrestal argues that his prominence and achievements depended on his remarkable ability to exploit the potential for association and collaboration within the dévot environment of seventeenth-century France in enterprising and systematic ways. This is the first study to assess de Paul's activities against the wider backdrop of religious reform and Bourbon rule, and to reconstruct the combination of ideas, practices, resources, and relationships that determined his ability to pursue his ambitions. A work of forensic detail and complex narrative, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform is the product of years of research in ecclesiastical and state archives. It offers a wholly fresh perspective on the challenges and opportunities entailed in the promotion of religious reform and renewal in seventeenth-century France.
Download or read book Co operative Project for Seismic Risk Reduction in the Mediterranean Region RER 87 022 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naturalism and Unbelief in France 1650 1729 written by Alan Charles Kors and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how absolute naturalism, deciphering nature without reference to God, emerged from the inheritance, dynamics and debates of orthodox culture.
