L'ouvrage se propose de relier la sous-représentation des femmes dans la sphère du pouvoir et la dévalorisation dont elles sont l'objet dans le champ culturel : littérature, cinéma, théâtre. Si le phénomène est de tous temps et de tous lieux, il semble avoir pris une acuité particulière en France et a été relativement peu étudié. Le livre est dédié à la mémoire de Michelle Coquillat dont un beau texte, Les femmes, le pouvoir et l'influence, forme la première contribution. Ce texte (...) es... (shrink)

This article examines a neglected dimension of Bazin's work, namely his writings for the daily newspaper Le Parisien libéré. Four key points emerge from this corpus. First, Bazin goes beyond the film-reviewing norms of the day to analyse the intentions and achievements of the film-makers. Second, Bazin foregrounds the capacity of cinema to address the concerns of contemporary society. Third, as a result, he ascribes a particular value to films that actively engage with the new social realities of post-war France. (...) Four, Bazin remains blind to the misogynistic dimension of post-war French cinema, with its tendency to culpabilize women for the national disgrace of the Occupation. Ultimately, Bazin's newspaper reviewing represents a more socially aware vision of cinema than that promoted by more specialized cinema journals, yet his criticism remains caught within the gender ideology of his time. (shrink)

Parler d’« exception culturelle » française est parfois pleinement justifié. Ainsi, dès lors que sont étudiés de près les rapports pour le moins conflictuels entre genre et cinéma en France, certaines tendances spécifiques se dessinent. Il n’est pas nouveau de dire que l’équivalent français du terme anglais gender a quelques difficultés à s’intégrer dans le monde universitaire hexagonal et les réticences à envisager la société au sens large en fonction des sexes biologiques et des rapports en...

Parler d’« exception culturelle » française est parfois pleinement justifié. Ainsi, dès lors que sont étudiés de près les rapports pour le moins conflictuels entre genre et cinéma en France, certaines tendances spécifiques se dessinent. Il n’est pas nouveau de dire que l’équivalent français du terme anglais gender a quelques difficultés à s’intégrer dans le monde universitaire hexagonal et les réticences à envisager la société au sens large en fonction des sexes biologiques et des rapports en...

L'approche historique des films souffre en France d'une double myopie : soit on sauve selon des critères cinéphiliques hérités de la « politique des auteurs » quelques chefs-d'œuvre qui transcendent leur époque ; soit on évalue les films selon des critères politiques ou idéologiques exogènes, comme « reflets » des débats de l'heure. Nous avons tenté d'élaborer des hypothèses à partir de ce dont parlent la plupart des films de fiction en France : les relations entre les hommes et les (...) fe... (shrink)

L'approche historique des films souffre en France d'une double myopie : soit on sauve selon des critères cinéphiliques hérités de la « politique des auteurs » quelques chefs-d'œuvre qui transcendent leur époque ; soit on évalue les films selon des critères politiques ou idéologiques exogènes, comme « reflets » des débats de l'heure. Nous avons tenté d'élaborer des hypothèses à partir de ce dont parlent la plupart des films de fiction en France : les relations entre les hommes et les (...) fe... (shrink)

Fifteen years after the first translations of Anglo-American feminist film theories, this gender approach is finding it hard to gain acceptance in France. The main reason is the elitist view of cinema d’auteur that is still prevalent in academic circles, where the art is seen as a genius’s creation outside social determinations in general and gender relations in particular. However, under the influence of historians and sociologists, who dominate gender research in France, French work on film privileges a historical and (...) sociocultural approach, whereas American research is dominated by psychoanalytical approaches. French gender analyses privilege the expression of dominant relations but also of contradictions at work in the films, whether popular or by an auteur-e, as well as in the stars’ image or in tv fiction. Finally some research explores the changes brought about by the emergence of female film-makers on the French scene. (shrink)

L’émergence de la Nouvelle Vague au tournant des années 1960 peut se lire comme la revendication d’une posture créatrice relevant de la culture d’élite, dans un medium jusque là éminemment populaire, le cinéma. S’inscrivant dans une tradition culturelle particulièrement forte en France, ce nouveau cinéma va se conjuguer quasi-exclusivement au masculin singulier, et les figures féminines qu’il crée oscillent entre la prise en compte de l’émancipation des femmes réelles et des fantasmes romantiques et misogynes beaucoup plus archaïques. Ces contradictions sont (...) explorées à travers quatre films de Godard, Chabrol, Varda et Resnais. (shrink)

L’émergence de la Nouvelle Vague au tournant des années 1960 peut se lire comme la revendication d’une posture créatrice relevant de la culture d’élite, dans un medium jusque là éminemment populaire, le cinéma. S’inscrivant dans une tradition culturelle particulièrement forte en France, ce nouveau cinéma va se conjuguer quasi-exclusivement au masculin singulier, et les figures féminines qu’il crée oscillent entre la prise en compte de l’émancipation des femmes réelles et des fantasmes romantiques et misogynes beaucoup plus archaïques. Ces contradictions sont (...) explorées à travers quatre films de Godard, Chabrol, Varda et Resnais. (shrink)

Hume's Reception in Early America: Expanded Edition brings together the original American responses to one of Britain's greatest men of letters, David Hume. Now available as a single volume paperback, this new edition includes updated further readings suggestions and dozens of additional primary sources gathered together in a completely new concluding section. From complete pamphlets and booklets, to poems, reviews, and letters, to extracts from newspapers, religious magazines and literary and political journals, this book's contents come from a wide variety (...) of sources published in colonial America and the early United States between 1758 and 1850. As well as classics by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, it contains scores of unknown and hard-to-locate items, many of which have not been reprinted since their original publication. These responses are divided into four parts covering Hume's Essays; his Philosophical Writings; his History of England; and his Character and Death. Each of those parts has a separate introductory essay, and every selection is introduced by a short headnote that sets the piece in its historical context and provides bibliographical references. Packed with new insights into Hume and American thought and culture, Hume's Reception in Early America reveals the relevance and impact of Hume on American political, philosophical, historical, religious, and aesthetic debates. (shrink)

Biological evolution is a complex blend of ever changing structural stability, variability and emergence of new phe- notypes, niches, ecosystems. We wish to argue that the evo- lution of life marks the end of a physics world view of law entailed dynamics. Our considerations depend upon dis- cussing the variability of the very ”contexts of life”: the in- teractions between organisms, biological niches and ecosys- tems. These are ever changing, intrinsically indeterminate and even unprestatable: we do not know ahead of (...) time the ”niches” which constitute the boundary conditions on selec- tion. More generally, by the mathematical unprestatability of the ”phase space”, no laws of mo- tion can be formulated for evolution. We call this radical emergence, from life to life. The purpose of this paper is the integration of variation and diversity in a sound concep- tual frame and situate unpredictability at a novel theoretical level, that of the very phase space. Our argument will be carried on in close comparisons with physics and the mathematical constructions of phase spaces in that discipline. The role of symmetries as invariant preserving transformations will allow us to under- stand the nature of physical phase spaces and to stress the differences required for a sound biological theoretizing. In this frame, we discuss the novel notion of ”enablement”. Life lives in a web of enablement and radical emergence. This will restrict causal analyses to differential cases. Mutations or other causal differ- ences will allow us to stress that ”non conservation princi- ples” are at the core of evolution, in contrast to physical dynamics, largely based on conservation principles as sym- metries. Critical transitions, the main locus of symmetry changes in physics, will be discussed, and lead to ”extended criticality” as a conceptual frame for a better understanding of the living state of matter. (shrink)

This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G. Hempel's most important studies to give students and scholars an ideal opportunity to appreciate the enduring contributions of one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century.

This entirely new work guides the reader through the most basic systems of modal propositional logic up to systems of modal predicate with identity, dealing with both technical developments and discussing philosophical applications.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A model for the ideal state includes discussions of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character.

On one way of talking about a traditional metaethical topic, realists accept that some items appear on the list of what exists in the moral or more broadly normative domain of inquiry. They then divide over whether those items are like what science and experience suggest that all other items on the list of what exists across all domains are like – naturalistic and secular. Reductive naturalists answer this further question affirmatively. Why don’t nonnaturalists? I explore the answer that it’s (...) because normative entities are “just too different” in the sense that they are countably different things. However, I argue that this answer rests on the subtle presupposition that the normative domain doesn’t also contain uncountable entities of the sort that analytic metaphysicians call “stuff”. Taking intuitions of difference seriously points the way to a novel form of metaethical reductive naturalism. The key is to identify the stuff that matters. (shrink)