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Claude Henri Grignon, anarchiste de droite
… relativement méconnu du Canada français, Claude-Henri Grignon. Si son nom évoque son œuvre littéraire, en particulier Un homme et son péché, on connaît moins bien, en revanche, son œuvre intellectuelle. La thèse soutient que Grignon était anarchiste de droite. À partir de la définition de …
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The Travel Literature of Henri Michaux
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:53:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511724.pdf: 12546499 bytes, checksum: a94eb530223cb8a05684ca05ca28b17a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Henri Bergson, Duree Reelle and high modernism.
… status and popular appeal of the philosopher Henri Bergson in the first decade of the 20th century is said to have exceeded even that of his fellow Parisian, Jean-‐Paul Sartre in the 1950s. Bergson was an important influence on modernism, achieving a particular resonance with the ‘high …
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Henri Bergson and the Superiority Theory of Humor
Humor and laughter make up important parts of the human experience. Many people and cultures adopt various customs about humor. But what is humor? Philosophers try to explain the phenomenon of humor. This thesis looks briefly at the history of the superiority theory of humor in particular with …
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"La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient" Henri Matisse
This Master's thesis will analyze Matisse's complex relation to the Orient. In 1947, Hemi Matisse was a recognized avant garde painter, after having deeply reflected on his painting he declared: "The Revelation came to me from the Orient." What does Matisse mean when he makes such a confession? …
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"La révolution urbaine" Henri Lefèbvres Philosophie der globalen Verstädterung
Die These einer globalen Urbanisierung beansprucht bei Lefèbvre eine umfassende geistige Konfrontation, die im Übergang von ruralen zu urbanen Strukturen zentrale Elemente von gesellschaftspolitischer und philosophischer Relevanz aufzeigt. Von der konkreten politischen Situation im Paris der …
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Museums without walls: The museology of Georges Henri Riviere
… modern French ethnographical practice, Georges Henri Rivière (1897 – 1985). It draws on the conceptual distinction made in some international museum literature between museology and museums. This distinction stems from the different assumptions introduced by two long term projects of cultural …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
<p>Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916) is critically acclaimed as one of France's preeminent composers of contemporary music. He is unique among contemporary French composers of the post-Second World War generation for his singular affiliation to the development of his own personal style, notably at the …
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: a comparison of their moral philosophies
The similarities between Nietzsche and Bergson can be seen in the reactions of both thinkers to Darwinism, the vitalism that both philosophers utilized to explain life's evolution, the distinction made by the two thinkers between men and great men, the developmental frame of reference applied by …
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Henri Rivière, Japonsime, and Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel
… is a bound book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the end of the nineteenth century. The lithographs also reflect the powerful influence of Japonisme, the study of …
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Play City Life: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Exploration and Re-Imagined Possibilities for Urban Life
… value that capitalism so efficiently emphasizes. Henri Lefebvre’s ideas about the ongoing production of social space, explicated in his spatial triad, alongside his ideas surrounding a resurgent and possibly revolutionary festival are used to explain how play can unsettle current capitalist norms. …
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Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson
… as a fundamental attunement through the works of Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger. We will focus attention on the common theme of "the nothing" and its place in the ontologies of both philosophers. We will argue that Heidegger's use of anxiety is the result of the place of the nothing in his …
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
… to modernize France, as he understood the term. Henri Maret, the Dean of the Theology Faculty at the Sorbonne, sought to prevent this. This dissertation explores the ensuing conflict between Ferry and Maret in order to analyze the strategies and rationalle uitlized by each in order to illustrate …
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Architecture and urbanism in Henri IV's Paris : the Place Royale, Place Dauphine, and Hôpital St. Louis
… concerns the extensive building program which Henri IV undertook in Paris from 1600 to 1610. Focusing on the place Royale (now called the place des Vosges) , the place Dauphine, rue Dauphine, and Pont Neuf, and the hôpital St. Louis, this study holds that Henri IV's urbanism was guided by an …
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The Mystery of Christ, the Mystery of the Church: Christocentrism in the Theological Visions of Georges Florovsky and Henri de Lubac
… theologies of Georges Florovsky (1893-1979) and Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) and argues that christocentrism functions as a foundational interpretive priority for both thinkers. Rather than just an historical or methodological continuity, I argue that their shared christocentrism is reflective of a …
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L'exil des mots et la representation de l'autre dans les oeuvres de Henri Michaux et de J. M. G. Le Clezio
"Henri Michaux et J. M. G. Le Clezio se confrontent au paradoxe de l'ecriture qui, tout en etant toujours l'expression du meme et de l'identique, cherche a definir et a exprimer l'autre. Cette etude suit un mode de derive de l'ecriture dans lequel les deux auteurs aimeraient pouvoir echapper au …
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