Mon premier livre.En 1999, j'ose en effet le grand saut : écrire ! Dans ce premier ouvrage, j'ai voulu tout d'abord témoigner d'un état d'esprit : la joie au cœur de l'épreuve, la joie de progresser sur les chemins hasardeux de l'existence. J'ai donc imaginé ce qui se serait pas…
Mon premier livre.En 1999, j'ose en effet le grand saut : écrire ! Dans ce premier ouvrage, j'ai voulu tout d'abord témoigner d'un état d'esprit : la joie au cœur de l'épreuve, la joie de progresser sur les chemins hasardeux de l'existence. J'ai donc imaginé ce qui se serait pas…
A series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English for the first time, anticipates the post-colonial critique of colonial theory.
The 'Other' - source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. This pioneering work on otherness anticipates and informs much of the current postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. As such, this early attempt to theorize the exotic is a cruci…
Valuing others in classical antiquity
by Rosen, Ralph M., (Ralph Mark), Sluiter, I., (Ineke)
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How does a discourse of 'valuing others' help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people 'belong together', as a family…
How does a discourse of 'valuing others' help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people 'belong together', as a family…
Introduction: Diffraction, Reading and (New) Materialism / Kai Merten -- PART 1. Diffractive Reading: Groundwork. On the Politics of Diffractive Reading -- Heraclitus's Onto-stories: Impossible appointments and the importance of the encounter -- Decoherent Reading: On the consti…
"Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings - in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts - this volume proposes a critical intervention into the practice of …
"Putting the New Materialist figure of diffraction to use in a set of readings - in which cultural texts are materially read against their contents and their themes, against their readers or against other texts - this volume proposes a critical intervention into the practice of …