Gynaecological self-help, a well-known and historical feminist practice from the Second Wave movements which aims at embodying a radical alternative to traditional reproductive politics, is resurging today in France, Switzerland and Belgium. Drawing on empirical observations and interviews, this article questions the links between feminist memory of self-help, the shaping of nostalgia and the production of a political feminist ‘we’. Born at the end of the 1960s in the United States, feminist self-help travelled internationally and was appropriated differently depending (...) on national contexts. This ‘glorious’ history of self-help and, more importantly, its narrated memory, is central to contemporary European self-help activism, as observed in the three national contexts. Drawing on this insight, this article reveals the active memory-oriented emotional work of self-help activists. It examines the ways in which nostalgia for an imagined and lost past is actively and practically produced and encouraged in social movement practices, and highlights the specificity of the kind of collective feminist identity that it shapes and promotes in contemporary self-help politics. (shrink)

Il faut lire absolument le dossier passionnant proposé par la revue Réseaux, relatif aux pratiques sexuées du téléphone, et plus généralement à la question du rapport entre genre, langage et conversation. Comme l'indiquent les coordonnateurs du numéro dans leur présentation synthétique, l'enjeu de ces réflexions sociologiques est de comprendre la signification d'un constat établi par beaucoup de recherches en France et à l'étranger : « les femmes téléphonent plus que les hommes ­ plus...

Quem introduzir num motor de busca da Internet o nome de Pinheiro dos Santos encontrará referências em estudos académicos e científicos da Oceânia à Europa, da América do Sul à do Norte, nas mais variadas áreas disciplinares Todos referirão o autor da filosofia da Ritmanálise E quase todos repetirão o erro de que era brasileiro, aquele professor do quadro da primeira Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, desde 1919 até à sua dissolução em 1927, cuja obra principal só conhecemos (...) através de fontes indirectas, em particular do francês Gaston Bachelard, vindo daí o epíteto de fantasma E quem se der ao trabalho de investigar o nome de Lúcio dos Santos encontrará pistas de um personagem singular de combatividade cívico-política, desde a greve académica de 1907, passando pelo 5 de Outubro de 1910, até ao exílio político brasileiro que vai de 1927 a 1950, data do seu falecimento, testemunho significativo e interventivo de mais de metade da história portuguesa do Século XX Em ambos os casos temos uma e só pessoa, o bracarense Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos E um personagem conhecido em todo o mundo e quase inteiramente desconhecido entre nós Uma realidade a que já nos temos vindo a habituar Mas que não é uma fatalidade como se demonstra por este trabalho arqueológico de reconstrução de uma personalidade multímoda cujos textos, há muito perdidos pelos acervos e outros inteiramente inéditos entre nós, vêem agora a luz do dia colocando-se à disposição da comunidade científica e do público em geral, em particular das novas gerações Em qualquer dos casos, quer numa vertente quer noutra, esta obra de Pedro Baptista desvela os contornos de um fantasma e fixa mais um nome incontornável na história do pensamento português, filosófico e político, do Século XX. (shrink)

C'est la question de la parole qui est ici en jeu, telle que Heidegger l'a méditée pour préparer la pensée à un commencement autre que le commencement grec. A cette fin, Heidegger a mené à l'époque de "Etre et temps" un dialogue très intense avec Aristote. Ce qu'a d'exceptionnel cette rencontre, qui a marqué toute une génération d'élèves, est ici présenté de manière générale. Mais certains axes sont précisés, à travers notamment la découverte que fait Heidegger du sens que recèle (...) la quotidienneté pour l'existence humaine. A partir de cette dimension immédiatement concrète qui a toujours échappé aux grandes visées métaphysiques, Heidegger voit poindre, en dialogue avec Aristote, une entente de la parole comme modalité éminente du rapport à autrui. Quant au débat que Heidegger a mené avec Platon, il est aussi présenté dans ses grands traits, à travers la notion de dialogue, si chère à l'un et l'autre penseur. C'est ici le sens de la parole philosophique qui est en question, à la lumière de la tâche que Heidegger lui confère, en notre époque de nihilisme accompli, d'un voisinage avec la parole poétique. S'appuyant sur de nombreux cours de Heidegger désormais publiés, mais peu connus, le présent livre offre également plusieurs extraits inédits en français d'un texte appartenant au corpus - encore inconnu des lecteurs français - que constituent les "Traites impubliés" rédigés par le penseur pendant la guerre, à l'abri de toute publicité. Ce texte sur les rapports entre poésie et philosophie permet de mesurer toute la portée éthique de l'habitation qu'aura ménagée Heidegger pour être poétiquement humain. (shrink)

For centuries, philosophy has been considered as an intellectual activity requiring complex cognitive skills and predispositions related to complex (or critical) thinking. The Philosophy for Children (P4C) approach aims at the development of critical thinking in pupils through philosophical dialogue. Some contest the introduction of P4C in the classroom, suggesting that the discussions it fosters are not philosophical in essence. In this text, we argue that P4C is philosophy.

Si l’histoire des sages-femmes est relativement bien connue pour les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, grâce aux ouvrages de Mireille Laget et Jacques Gélis, en revanche, pour le XIXe siècle, elle reste en grande partie à écrire. La situation parisienne a fait l’objet du livre de Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie sur la Maternité de Port-Royal et aussi de la thèse de IIIe cycle sur les sages-femmes parisiennes de Danielle Tucat, malheureusement non publiée. Pour la France profonde, on dispose d’un article...

Our work is aimed at studying the optimization of a complex motor behaviour from a global perspective. First, free climbing as a sport will be briefly introduced while emphasizing in particular its psychomotor aspect called route finding. The basic question raised here is how does the optimization of a sensorimotoricity-environment system take place. The material under study is the free climber's trajectory, viewed as the signature of climbing behaviour (i.e., the spatial dimension). The concepts of learning, optimization, constraint, and degrees (...) of freedom of a system will be discussed using the synergistic approach to the study of movement (Bernstein, 1967; Kelso, 1977). Measures of a trajectory's length and convex hull can be used to define an index whose equation resembles that of an entropy. This index is a measure of the trajectory's overall complexity. Some important concepts related to the thermodynamics of curves will also be discussed. The optimization process will be studied by examining the changes in entropy over time for a set of trajectories generated during the learning of a route (ten successive repetitions of the same climb). It will be shown that the entropy of the trajectories decreases as learning progresses, that each level of expertise has its own characteristic entropy curve, and that for the subjects tested, the mean entropy of skilled climbers is lower than that of average climbers. Basing our analysis on the concepts of degrees of freedom and constraint equations, an attempt is made to relate trajectory entropy to system entropy. Based on the postulate that trajectory entropy is equal to the difference in entropy between the unconstrained and constrained system, a model of motor optimization is proposed. This model is illustrated by an entropy graph reflecting a dynamic release process. In the light of our results, two opposing views will be examined: movement construction vs. movement emergence. (shrink)

BackgroundIn the context of translational research, researchers have increasingly been using biological samples and data in fundamental research phases. To explore informed consent practices, we conducted a retrospective study on informed consent documents that were used for CARPEM’s translational research programs. This review focused on detailing their form, their informational content, and the adequacy of these documents with the international ethical principles and participants’ rights.MethodsInformed consent forms (ICFs) were collected from CARPEM investigators. A content analysis focused on information related to (...) biological samples and data treatment (context of sampling and collect, aims, reuse, consent renewal), including the type of consent. An automatic assessment of the readability of the ICFs were performed with the IT program “Flesch Score”.Results29 ICFs from 25 of 49 studies were analyzed after selection criteria were applied. Three types of consent were identified: 11 broad consents, six specific consents, and two opt-out consents. The Flesch Scores showed that most of the documents were too complex to be fully understood by most of the potential research participants. Most of the biological samples were collected during the healthcare routine, but the information content about secondary use of biological samples varied between ICFs. All documents mentioned personal data treatment but information about their reuse was not standardized in the ICFs.ConclusionsOur review of current IC procedures of CARPEM showed that practices could be improved considering new translational research methods. “Old fashion written ICFs” should be adapted to the translational research approach, to better respect individual rights and international research ethics principles. In this context, theoretically, a digital tool allowing dynamic information and consent of participants, through an electronic interactive platform may be a good way to promote more active participation in research. Nevertheless, its feasibility in the complex environment of biological samples and data research remains to prove. The way of a combination of a broad consent followed by dynamic information may be alternatively tested. (shrink)

This paper is an essay about Harold Garfinkel's heritage. It outlines a response to Eric Livingston's proposal to say goodbye to ethnomethodology as pertaining to the sociological tradition; and it rejects part of Melvin Pollner's diagnosis about the changes occurred in ethnomethodological working. If it agrees with Pollner about the idea that something of the initial ethnomethodology's program has been left aside after the "work studies" turn, it asserts that such a turn has nonetheless made possible authentic discoveries. So the (...) paper speaks for a better integration of the two versions of ethnomethodology separated by Pollner. (shrink)

Le texte montre que Jan Patočka a développé une pensée du tragique dans deux directions principales : une philosophie du tragique qui met en avant, à travers la lecture d’Antigone, le rôle de la Nuit et de la finitude dans l’existence, par opposition au surrationalisme de Créon et à l’absolutisation de la loi du jour, dont notre surcivilisation technique est l’héritière. La pensée originale du sacrifice, chez Patočka, et sa propre mort s’inscrivent de plain-pied dans le cadre de cette philosophie (...) du tragique. Mais le philosophe a développé aussi, notamment à travers son entente d’Œdipe, une phénoménologie du tragique, comme expérience de la finitude et de la problématicité de l’ouverture humaine par rapport à l’ouverture primordiale du monde. Sous deux angles différents mais complémentaires, ces deux approches originales du tragique sophocléen touchent au cœur de la pensée du philosophe, dont la vie n’a pas échappé au tragique de l’histoire de son temps. (shrink)

Au départ de cet ouvrage, une phrase de Martin Heidegger prononcée en 1958 à Aix-en-Provence : "J'ai trouvé ici le chemin de Paul Cézanne auquel, de son début jusqu'à sa fin, mon propre chemin de pensée correspond d'une certaine manière". Comprendre cette correspondance entre la pensée de Heidegger et la peinture de Cézanne suppose de comprendre quelle mutation la révolution phénoménologique du XX? siècle a fait subir à la pensée pour qu'un philosophe reconnaisse comme interlocuteur privilégié l'oeuvre d'un peintre et (...) non d'un autre philosophe. L'exposition du dialogue entre Heidegger et Cézanne est aussi une manière d'interroger l'originalité de la correspondance entre la révolution phénoménologique et l'art moderne. (shrink)

Ce texte offre une lecture de L’origine de l’œuvre d’art de Heidegger afin d’en dégager les articulations principales qui permettent de penser une approche phénoménologique de l’art. Il apparaît que cette approche se fonde avant tout dans une expérience incarnée des œuvres, et qu’elle implique une remise en question des concepts traditionnels sur lesquels s’établissent à la fois l’Esthétique et l’Histoire de l’art. Ainsi mise à l’épreuve des œuvres, la pensée phénoménologique de l’art ouvre la voie à une autre « (...) histoire de l’art », dans laquelle est en jeu l’événement de l’être au monde. (shrink)

An introduction to Rousseau's Confessions.

Excerpt from La Logique, ou l'Art de Penser: Contenant, Outre les Regles Communes, Plusieurs Observations Nouvelles Propres a Former le Jugement L ogiqfic_cu _bicn con dnire uraifon dans 11 cormoi'f fame les pour s'en inÿmixc, ca inu'mir_c aut_rfl.s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst (...) repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)

This paper leads to apply some recent developments in the economic literature dealing with the concept of innovation systems to the problem of economic cohesion in Europe. Starting from a definition of innovation systems, it allows to consider firms and sets of intstitutions as two main but different types of innovation systems. This distinction is the source of a discussion about the nature of the coordination problems which appear when considering the European diversity of innovation systems. The different combinations between (...) innovation systems developed in the paper are a useful means of discussing European policy intervention and its ability to favour (or not) economic cohesion. (shrink)

The intention of this work is to trace in the most archaic human condition the anthropological roots that justify the foundation of an ethics, as conceived by Paul Ricœur in his book Oneself as Another . To do this, first I will try to expose the route that the creative image follows from its genesis in drives to its full semantics in the symbol, according to the dialogue that the author engaged with Freud in his work Freud and Philosophy based (...) on his hermeneutic concerns. Second, considering a critical remark that Ricœur makes about Freud, I will explore the intentional orientation towards “the good life”, whose reflexive sense, “self-esteem”, integrates the symbolic dimension of action and sets the basis for the realization ( épanouissement ) of the human person. (shrink)

Associée à tort à la pensée libertine, l'œuvre de Lahontan présente les traces indéniables de l'influence huguenote. C'est par l'étude de la controverse religieuse, genre aujourd'hui tombé en désuétude, que l'on arrive à y saisir aussi l'émergence d'un déisme fortuit. Les deux premiers Dialogues, inspirés par le Leviathan de Thomas Hobbes, montrent que Lahontan fait triompher le droit naturel des lois, corps civil artificiel. Ce sont les mêmes Dialogues réécrits par Nicolas Gueudeville qui viennent faire du chef huron Adario un (...) personnage revendicateur, symbole du Rebelle nourrissant la littérature des Lumières, de Voltaire aux Encyclopédistes. Although the work of Lahontan, whose 300th anniversary is celebrated, has wrongly been associated with libertine thought, it actually displays traces of Huguenot influence. By studying the religious controversy - a genre nowadays fallen into disuse - one understands the emergence of a fortuitous deism. The first two Dialogues, that were inspired by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, show that Lahontan makes triumph natural law over the laws of the artificial Civil Code. In Nicolas Gueudeville's rewritten version of the same Dialogues the Huron chief Adario puts forward his claims. He is the symbol of the rebel who nourishes the Enlightenment literature, from Voltaire to the Encyclopedists. (shrink)

Avec le mouvement de professionnalisation de l'enseignement, la compétence éthique est devenue une caractéristique désirée du professionnalisme dans l'enseignement.

How is it that ordinary people decide to take part in genocides? Philosophers and psychologists have attempted to provide explanations of how genocidal organizations bear on the moral judgement of genocide participants. Here, I resituate those findings within the field of human resource management. I highlight how basic principles of management and HR management can lead ordinary individuals to judge their participation in a genocide as acceptable. Although initially only designed to increase motivation and productivity, these techniques also affect individuals’ (...) awareness of ethical issues. Consequently, participants shift their judgements in favour of the genocidal organization, forgetting the victims. Management studies have seldom addressed the topic of genocide, despite clues in the literature that genocides are organizational in nature. By combining the three fields of management, business ethics and genocide studies within an approach based on transdisciplinary analysis, I hope to show that genocides constitute a legitimate subject for management studies. (shrink)

Ethics is an unconventional field of research for a surgeon, as ethics in surgery owns several specificities and surgery is considered an aggressive specialty. Therefore, the interest of research in medical ethics is sometimes unclear.In this short essay, we discussed the interest of research in medical ethics using a comparison to thermodynamics and mainly, entropy. During the transformation of a figure from one state to another, some energy is released or absorbed; yet, a part of this energy is wasted because (...) of “unordered” reactions: it is Entropy.This “wasted energy” exists in Medical practice and justifies research in Medical ethics. (shrink)

Collaborative inquiry (CI) often prefers using the small group as the main method of investigation serving the twin goals that characterize this type of research—the production of scientific knowledge and the professional development of its participants. The small group offers researchers and practitioners a mutual space for analyzing issues of common interest which arise from the day-to-day experience of the latter. Supporting these groups and their participants can be a major challenge and plays a crucial role in carrying out a (...) CI project. But what exactly do this stance and the work supporting it entail? The authors of this article offer some possible answers to this broad question by drawing on their own experiences in various CI projects and on a systematic approach that they have developed in recent years. Knowledge related to CI— as a methodological approach and as part of the process and goals of experiential learning in particular—made it possible to study support issues, starting with areas of focus that guide researchers and act as reference points in the course of this work. (shrink)