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In this article, we tried to decrypt the nature, the structure and the ways of actions of an active minority within developped countries. Individuals who belong to the transhumanist movement reflect to some extent the conflictual situation which is the own case of our Mankind in this beginning of 3rd millenary which has to cope with the growing importance of Sciences, Techniques and Technology in our daily lives. Discussing about the future of Mankind, Transhumanists interrogate burning core questions which put forward a new ideal posthuman identity where technique, helping human beings, restores their social and cosmological legitimacy.
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AbstractConfronted with institutional dysfunctions and with an obvious lack of efficiency of international environmental regimes, the international community has been actively engaged in a debate over the contours of a new system since 2001. Yet, success is not guaranted. Though recent initiatives by unep, the un, and the French and German governments have given larger dimensions and a new impetus to the debate on environmental governance, conditions are not yet in place for a more centralized system to develop. The current impasse and limited progress since the 2002 Johannesburg Summit suggest there is a need to think about new governance models which would be more reflective of the reality of the new international system and be directed towards a collective definition of a common environmental good.
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Within the semiotic scope of the École de Paris and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theses concerning perception and aesthetics, this paper proposes a paradigmatic and syntagmatic reading of a series of seven paintings by Pierre Soulages. Modes of exhibition, seriality, animated shapes and substances – luminosity and rhythm – of expression are analysed and defined in reference to an underlying cultural subject. The instability of the subject's perceptions, shaped by the paintings observed, leads us to consider the perception as a dynamic semantic process and to wonder again about the evidence of the perceiving eye.
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The activities of foreign diplomats in England helped push and create the boundaries of diplomatic privilege in the eighteenth century. One specific issue—the extent to which foreign ministers could shield people from being arrested for debt—led to a sizeable body of case law that defined the limits of the immunity of servants of diplomats. The British government frequently allowed ambassadors to assert privileges even in instances when they were not merited. Diplomatic honour and preservation of good relations were of paramount importance. In addition to the significance to international legal history, the activities of these diplomats and the identity of those whom they sought to protect contribute to the current literature about the complex roles of ambassadors in the eighteenth century. This article addresses the 1708 statute on diplomatic privileges, the vexing question of debt in the eighteenth century, the role of diplomats, the changing case law, and, finally, the means by which matters involving diplomatic privilege avoided the courts altogether.