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Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 3: Dale-Frisi (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #138)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. One in a 13-volume set which reprints Voltaire's marginal notes in the alphabetical sequence of the books in his library. An indispensable scholarly tool for students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment with research interests in Voltaire.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Tables (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #148)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains a complete index of titles of Voltaire's works, a list of verse incipits, and a full chronological list of each volume. An indispensable key to the full 205-volume set. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Oeuvres de 1772 (I) (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #74A)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains his last philosophical story, "Le Taureau blanc", and other works designed to shape his image after his death. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Oeuvres de 1773 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #75A)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains Voltaires's defence of the Comte de Morangies, as well as campaigning works opposing the enemies of the philosophes. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Fragments sur l'Inde; Mandement du muphti (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #75B)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains the first ever critical edition of a neglected text on Indian history, religion and customs from his later years. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Collection des lettres sur les miracles. Ecrites a Geneve, et a Neufchatel (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #60D)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. In 1766 Voltaire throws himself into disagreements with Genevan personalities (David Claparede, Jean-Jacques Rousseau) and engages with political controversies in the city. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Miscellaneous verse (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #83)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains poetry for which the year of composition is unknown, all being short pieces. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l'auteur de La Henriade, etc. Avec les pieces originales et les preuves, I: Introduction et dossier (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #78B)

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains his last memoirs and a selection of his letters. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Traite sur la tolerance (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #56C)

Contains Voltaire's monumental 'Traite sur la tolerance', a manifesto on religious fanaticism and superstition which calls for a new age of tolerance between religions following the injustice of the death of Jean Calas, executed for murder in Toulouse, who Voltaire believed to be an innocent victim of anti-protestant prejudice. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Optimisation convexe et inéquations variationnelles monotones (Mathématiques et Applications #89)

De nombreux systèmes physiques, mécaniques, financiers et économiques peuvent être décrits par des modèles mathématiques qui visent à optimiser des fonctions, trouver des équilibres et effectuer des arbitrages. Souvent, la convexité des ensembles et des fonctions ainsi que les conditions de monotonie sur les systèmes d'inéquations qui régissent ces systèmes se présentent naturellement dans les modèles. C'est dans cet esprit que nous avons conçu ce livre en mettant l'accent sur une approche géométrique qui privilégie l'intuition par rapport à une approche plus analytique. Les démonstrations des résultats classiques ont été revues dans cette optique et simplifiées. De nombreux exemples d'applications sont étudiés et des exercices sont proposés.Ce livre s'adresse aux étudiants en master de mathématiques appliquées, ainsi qu'aux doctorants, chercheurs et ingénieurs souhaitant comprendre les fondements de l'analyse convexe et de la théorie des inéquations variationnelles monotones.

Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë’s novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel’s feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion’ and ‘plain’ across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë’s novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.

Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë’s novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel’s feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion’ and ‘plain’ across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë’s novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.

Simulation : bonnes pratiques pour la formation en soins infirmiers

Ce livre présente les normes fondées sur les preuves pour l’enseignement de la simulation en soins infirmiers. Le principe fondamental de l'excellence et de la pertinence de la simulation en soins infirmiers est détaillé tout au long de l'ouvrage. Il aborde également les éléments nécessaires à une simulation de qualité, de son développement à sa mise en œuvre. Ces domaines (non exhaustifs) incluent le contexte théorique, l'accréditation et normes d'homologation, l'environnement, le développement et la mise en œuvre de différents types de simulations et enfin le débriefing. Ces domaines sont décrits sur la base d’un examen approfondi de la littérature et des pratiques actuelles proposées par l'International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), la Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), la National League for Nursing (NLN) et les State Boards of Nursing (USA). Cet ouvrage deviendra rapidement un guide de référence pour de meilleures pratiques de la simulation dans l'enseignement des soins infirmiers.

Théories spectrales: Chapitres 3 à 5

Les Éléments de mathématique de Nicolas Bourbaki ont pour objet une présentation rigoureuse, systématique et sans prérequis des mathématiques depuis leurs fondements.Ce second volume, inédit, du Livre consacré aux Théories spectrales a pour thème les propriétés spectrales des applications linéaires.Le chapitre 3 étudie les applications linéaires compactes entre espaces vectoriels topologiques et la théorie de la perturbation par addition d'une application linéaire compacte, en particulier la théorie de Fredholm. Il se poursuit par la description du spectre d'un endomorphisme compact d'un espace de Banach, notamment les notions de spectre sensible et de spectre essentiel. On y démontre le théorème de Krein--Rutman.Le chapitre 4 contient les résultats fondamentaux de la théorie spectrale hilbertienne : opérateurs compacts et nucléaires, endomorphismes normaux, opérateurs partiels normaux. On y trouve également un exposé concis des distributions et distributions tempérées.Enfin, le chapitre 5 aborde l'étude des représentations unitaires des groupes topologiques (constructions élémentaires, lemme de Schur, représentations de carré intégrable modulo le centre, classes de représentations irréductibles). On y développe aussi la théorie des fonctions de type positif et on y démontre le théorème fondamental de Peter--Weyl.Le texte est complété par de nombreux exercices et par une note historique portant sur le contenu des chapitres 1 à 5.

Without Trace: An Utterly Gripping Detective Crime Thriller With An Unexpected Twist (Di Geraldine Steel Ser. #20)

A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons – these all put masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit of the times, Françoise Vergès refuses the punitive obsession of the State in favour of restorative justice.

An Outline of Romanticism in the West

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey.

An Outline of Romanticism in the West

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey.

An Outline of Romanticism in the West

Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey.

Cambridge IGCSE™ French Workbook: Course Licence (Collins Cambridge IGCSE™)

Collins IGCSE® French Workbook supports the Student’s Book by providing additional material for skills development and language practice.

Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt (American Studies in Papyrology #56)

This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642–10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By doing so, this book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers results based on a holistic view of the documentary material. The articles of this volume discuss various aspects of change and continuity from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt and offer also the (re)edition of 23 papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. The authors provide a showcase of recent papyrological research on this under-studied, but dynamically evolving field. After an introduction by the editor of the volume that outlines the most important trends and developments of the period, the first two essays shed light on Egypt as part of the Caliphate. The following six articles, the bulk of the volume, deal with the interaction and involvement of the Egyptian population with the new Muslim administrative apparatus. The last three studies of the volume focus on naming practices and language change.

Complete Works of Voltaire 26C: Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations (VIII): Chapitres 177-197 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #26C)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains chapters 177-197 of his world history. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet: A Citizen Developer's Guide To Building Rapid Low-code Apps With The Powerful Features Of Appsheet

A citizen developer's guide to building rapid low-code apps with the powerful features of AppSheet

Der Wert der Konversation: Perspektiven von der Antike bis zur Moderne (Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft)

Woran wird der Wert der Konversation gemessen? Gibt es wertvollere und minderwertige Typen der Konversation? Welche Rolle kommt den Inhalten, den Personen und den Umständen zu? Prägen Zeiten und Epochen die je ihnen eigenen Konversationen? Konversationsnormen aus Handbüchern ebenso wie in Texten wiedergegebene oder aus Texten rekonstruierte Konversationen geben Aufschluss über diese Fragen. Die Beiträge im vorliegenden Band gruppieren sich um begriffliche Fragen, bestimmte Kontexte wie den Salon und das Tischgespräch, bringen Studien zu einzelnen literarischen Texten und decken dabei die europäische Kulturgeschichte von Platon bis ins 20. Jahrhundert ab.

Gesundheit und Krankheit vor und nach Paracelsus

Bedeutend ist Theophrast von Hohenheim (ca. 1493/4–1541), genannt Paracelsus, vor allem durch sein Aufbegehren gegen die klassischen antiken und arabisch-mittelalterlichen Autoritäten in der Medizin. Grundlage sollen nicht mehr die überlieferten Schriften, sondern experientia, experimenta und ratio sein. Von dieser Basis soll künftig ausgegangen werden, was Paracelsus auch dadurch unterstreicht, dass er seine Schriften in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht. Indem er sich gegen die dogmatische Auslegung antiker Texte wandte, wollte er die Ära Galens beenden. Die Chirurgie wollte er auf universitären Rang erheben. Nach Paracelsus ist es die Natur, die heilt, wobei der Arzt nur Helfer ist. Wenn er Gesundheit als harmonische Ordnung im organischen Ablauf definiert, dann ist er bestrebt, Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos, Diesseits und Jenseits, in Einklang zu bringen. Die Welt ist für ihn kein Nebeneinander isolierter Elemente, sondern eine Einheit. Auch beim Menschen erscheint ihm Sinnliches und Seelisches aufeinander bezogen. Archeus nennt er ein immaterielles Prinzip, in dem er den Träger der belebenden Kraft in der Natur und im Menschen, also im Makrokosmos wie im Mikrokosmos, festmacht. Im Sinne der Renaissance sieht er den Menschen als Mittelpunkt des Kosmos und seine Aufgabe im Erkennen der Welt.

Homogénéisation en milieu périodique... ou non: Une introduction (Mathématiques et Applications #88)

The book provides a pedagogic and comprehensive introduction to homogenization theory with a special focus on problems set for non-periodic media. The presentation encompasses both deterministic and probabilistic settings. It also mixes the most abstract aspects with some more practical aspects regarding the numerical approaches necessary to simulate such multiscale problems. Based on lecture courses of the authors, the book is suitable for graduate students of mathematics and engineering.​Cet ouvrage est une introduction pédagogique à la théorie de l’homogénéisation, et aux approches numériques associées, pour la compréhension et la simulation des problèmes à plusieurs échelles. La présentation est axée sur les différentes hypothèses possibles pour mettre en œuvre la théorie, selon que le milieu ambiant a une géométrie périodique ou non. Le public visé est celui des cycles M et D des universités ainsi que celui des écoles d’ingénieurs et formations équivalentes.

Hydrologie, climat et biogeochimie du bassin du Congo: Une Base pour l'Avenir (Geophysical Monograph Series)

LA SÉRIE DE MONOGRAPHIE GÉOPHYSIQUE Hydrologie, Climat et Biogéochimie du Bassin du Congo Une Base pour l’Avenir Le Congo est le deuxième plus grand bassin fluvial du monde et abrite 120 millions d’habitants. La compréhension du cycle de l’eau, des sédiments et des nutriments est importante car la région est confrontée à des changements climatiques et anthropiques. Hydrologie, Climat et Biogéochimie du Bassin du Congo : Une Base pour l’Avenir explore les variations et les influences sur les précipitations, l’hydrologie et l’hydraulique, et la dynamique des sédiments et du carbone. Il présente des contributions d’experts de la région et de leurs collaborateurs internationaux. Les points forts du volume comprennent: Nouvelles mesures in situ et par télédétection et les résultats des modèles Utilisation des données historiques pour évaluer les précipitations et les changements hydrologiques Exploration des échanges d’eau entre les zones humides et les rivières Processus biogéochimiques dans les forêts et les zones humides du bassin du Congo Une base scientifique pour la gestion des ressources hydrologiques dans la région Études de différentes parties du fleuve Congo et de ses bassins adjacents Ce livre est également disponible en anglais. L’Union Géophysique Américaine encourage la découverte des sciences de la Terre et de l’espace au profit de l’humanité. Ses publications diffusent des connaissances scientifiques et fournissent des ressources aux chercheurs, aux étudiants et aux professionnels.

Hydrologie, climat et biogeochimie du bassin du Congo: Une Base pour l'Avenir (Geophysical Monograph Series)

LA SÉRIE DE MONOGRAPHIE GÉOPHYSIQUE Hydrologie, Climat et Biogéochimie du Bassin du Congo Une Base pour l’Avenir Le Congo est le deuxième plus grand bassin fluvial du monde et abrite 120 millions d’habitants. La compréhension du cycle de l’eau, des sédiments et des nutriments est importante car la région est confrontée à des changements climatiques et anthropiques. Hydrologie, Climat et Biogéochimie du Bassin du Congo : Une Base pour l’Avenir explore les variations et les influences sur les précipitations, l’hydrologie et l’hydraulique, et la dynamique des sédiments et du carbone. Il présente des contributions d’experts de la région et de leurs collaborateurs internationaux. Les points forts du volume comprennent: Nouvelles mesures in situ et par télédétection et les résultats des modèles Utilisation des données historiques pour évaluer les précipitations et les changements hydrologiques Exploration des échanges d’eau entre les zones humides et les rivières Processus biogéochimiques dans les forêts et les zones humides du bassin du Congo Une base scientifique pour la gestion des ressources hydrologiques dans la région Études de différentes parties du fleuve Congo et de ses bassins adjacents Ce livre est également disponible en anglais. L’Union Géophysique Américaine encourage la découverte des sciences de la Terre et de l’espace au profit de l’humanité. Ses publications diffusent des connaissances scientifiques et fournissent des ressources aux chercheurs, aux étudiants et aux professionnels.

Le Moment marxiste de la phénoménologie française: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Trần Đức Thảo (Phaenomenologica #231)

Entre la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le début des années 1960, certaines des figures majeures du courant phénoménologique en France, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Trần Đức Thảo, considèrent que le projet d’articuler marxisme et phénoménologie constitue l’un des principaux enjeux de la philosophie dans le monde contemporain. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de comprendre la spécificité du travail philosophique effectué par chacun de ces penseurs sur ces deux courants de pensée apparemment incompatibles afin de rendre possible leur synthèse. L'auteur retrace la manière dont le projet initial de 1944 a été progressivement mis en question et reconfiguré au contact des mutations politiques et historiques, des débats philosophiques et du développement des sciences humaines. Ce volume, qui s’adresse aux étudiants et chercheurs, met ainsi en lumière les enjeux et les innovations conceptuelles de ce qui reste l'un des moments les plus féconds et originaux de la philosophie française contemporaine.This text covers the period between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the 1960s, when the phenomenological school in France was represented by Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Tran Duc Thao, who endeavored to combine Marxism with phenomenology as the major task of philosophy in the modern world. The object of this text is to understand the specificity of the philosophical work each performed on these two apparently incompatible schools of thought, in order to make their synthesis possible. The author traces the way in which the initial project of 1944 was progressively questioned and reworked in the wake of political and historical change, philosophical debates and the development of human sciences. This volume appeals to students and researchers while bringing to light the underlying stakes and conceptual innovations of what remains one of the most fertile and original moments in contemporary French philosophy.

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination.

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations (VII): Chapitres 163-176 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #26B)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains chapters 163-176 of his history of the world. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Siecle de Louis XIV (III) (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #13A)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. This volume contains chapters 1-12 of the brand new scholarly edition of Voltaire's groundbreaking history of the Sun King, the Siecle de Louis XIV. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Elements de la philosophie de Newton (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #15)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Uses physics and poetry to make Newton's ideas accessible to the French scientific community. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Sermon des Cinquante; Writings of 1758-1759 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #49A)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains his most scathingly anti-Christian text together with other religious essays, philosophical dialogues and a short story. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Lettres sur les Anglais (III) (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #6C)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire, in which he uses the example of the English to show the connections between religious tolerance, political freedom and international trade. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Oeuvres de 1753-1757 (II): Melanges de 1756 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #45B)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains essays on literature, history and philosophy which reflect Voltaire's perennial interests. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, par des amateurs (I): Introduction (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #37)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. This volume contains the introduction to the Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, Voltaire's longest text and neglected masterpiece (complete works, volumes 38-43). For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Siecle de Louis XIV (IV): Chapitres 13-24 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #13B)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. The first major overall picture of the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715), and a monument of eighteenth-century historiography. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Oeuvres de 1760 (I) (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #50)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains a comic drama, and another comedy and an essay contributing to the intellectual battle between the philosophes and their opponents. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations (III): Chapitres 38-67 (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #23)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains chapters 38-67 of his world history. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 7: Plautus-Rogers (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #142)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. One in a 13-volume set which reprints Voltaire's marginal notes in the alphabetical sequence of the books in his library. An indispensable scholarly tool for students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment with research interests in Voltaire.

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire: Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, par des amateurs (VIII): Privileges-Zoroastre (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) #43)

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Addresses a broad range of subjects in religion, history, art and literature. Voltaire's longest text and neglected masterpiece. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

The Official Indonesian Qur'ān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya

This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation of the Qurʾān into Indonesian by the Indonesian government. It investigates how the translation was produced and presented, and how it is read, as well as considering the implications of the state’s involvement in such a work.

Responsive Ethics and Participation: Science, Technology and Democracy

Taking stock of the overall confused picture that research and innovation (R&I) literature and practices offer with regard to citizen and stakeholder participation, this book provides a methodical conceptual and an empirical analysis to determine the connection between ethics and participation. Strong theoretical pillars in the fields of ethics, politics and responsible research and innovation (RRI) form the backbone of this critical approach to participation, which considers new approaches to democratic participation. Taking into account a number of participatory processes, Responsive Ethics and Participation establishes a new methodology to differentiate, classify and understand the added value of the participation of citizens and stakeholders in R&I.Participation could be considered the epitome of innovation ethics. However, its multidimensionality, its ethical and theoretical grounds and the nature of the involvement and related outcomes must be clarified at the outset, in order to reach active forms of participation. Ethical participation is required for reliable developments in science and technology, which is what this book ultimately demonstrates.

Responsive Ethics and Participation: Science, Technology and Democracy

Taking stock of the overall confused picture that research and innovation (R&I) literature and practices offer with regard to citizen and stakeholder participation, this book provides a methodical conceptual and an empirical analysis to determine the connection between ethics and participation. Strong theoretical pillars in the fields of ethics, politics and responsible research and innovation (RRI) form the backbone of this critical approach to participation, which considers new approaches to democratic participation. Taking into account a number of participatory processes, Responsive Ethics and Participation establishes a new methodology to differentiate, classify and understand the added value of the participation of citizens and stakeholders in R&I.Participation could be considered the epitome of innovation ethics. However, its multidimensionality, its ethical and theoretical grounds and the nature of the involvement and related outcomes must be clarified at the outset, in order to reach active forms of participation. Ethical participation is required for reliable developments in science and technology, which is what this book ultimately demonstrates.

Théorie spectrale et mécanique quantique (Mathématiques et Applications #87)

Ce livre présente la théorie spectrale des opérateurs auto-adjoints en dimension infinie ainsi que son application à la mécanique quantique. Le concept d'auto-adjonction, découvert par John von Neumann dans les années 1930, est bien plus subtil dans ce cadre que pour les matrices hermitiennes en dimension finie. Cet ouvrage peut aussi servir d’introduction mathématique à la mécanique quantique. De multiples exemples physiques servent ainsi à illustrer et motiver les théorèmes plus abstraits. Les deux derniers chapitres présentent des résultats plus récents concernant l'équation de Schrödinger pour les atomes, les molécules et les solides. Aucune connaissance physique n'est cependant requise pour lire ces pages. Premier livre en français sur le sujet destiné aux étudiants de Master, ce livre pourra accompagner un cours à ce niveau. Il devrait aussi être utile aux lecteurs plus avancés désirant en savoir plus sur cette théorie. *** This book presents the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators on Hilbert space, with applications to quantum mechanics. The concept of self-adjointness in infinite dimension was discovered by John von Neumann in the 1930s and it is much more involved than in the case of Hermitian matrices in finite dimension. The book also provides an introduction to quantum mechanics, suitable for students with a mathematics background. The presentation provides numerous physical examples illustrating the abstract theory. The last two chapters present recent results on Schrödinger’s equation for systems of particles. No previous knowledge of physics is required for the book.Based on the author’s teaching and intended for graduate courses, this French language textbook can also serve as a useful introduction to the topic for more advanced readers.

The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word &“art.&” It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.

The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution

The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of arranged gardens and the disharmony of wild nature led to a revolution in the criteria of the beautiful and in the meaning of the word &“art.&” It coincided with the birth of aesthetics, understood as a regime for shaping how art is seen and thought, and also with the French Revolution, understood as a revolution in the very idea of what binds together a human community. The time of the landscape is the time when the conjunction of these two upheavals brought into focus, however hazily, a common horizon: that of a revolution that no longer concerns only the laws of the state or the norms of art, but the very forms of sensible experience. This brilliant and wide-ranging book will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, and the humanities generally, and to anyone interested in critical theory and philosophy.

When Form Becomes Substance: Power of Gestures, Diagrammatical Intuition and Phenomenology of Space

This interdisciplinary volume collects contributions from experts in their respective fields with as common theme diagrams.Diagrams play a fundamental role in the mathematical visualization and philosophical analysis of forms in space. Some of the most interesting and profound recent developments in contemporary sciences, whether in topology, geometry, dynamic systems theory, quantum field theory or string theory, have been made possible by the introduction of new types of diagrams, which, in addition to their essential role in the discovery of new classes of spaces and phenomena, have contributed to enriching and clarifying the meaning of the operations, structures and properties that are at the heart of these spaces and phenomena.The volume gives a closer look at the scope and the nature of diagrams as constituents of mathematical and physical thought, their function in contemporary artistic work, and appraise, in particular, the actual importance of the diagrams of knots, of braids, of fields, of interaction, of strings in topology and geometry, in quantum physics and in cosmology, but also in theory of perception, in plastic arts and in philosophy. The editors carefully curated this volume to be an inspiration to students and researchers in philosophy, phenomenology, mathematics and the sciences, as well as artists, musicians and the general interested audience.