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The article shows how childhood is perceived by François Blais as a source of lucidity while adulthood is seen as an inevitable decline. The novel La classe de madame Valérie is structured around this antithesis, as much in the intertwining of temporalities as in the narrator's ironic intrusions. The only adults who are spared the author's cynicism seem to be those who live at odds with society, in a rejection of the established order. Indeed, most of the main characters in Francois Blais' works do not define themselves as “grown ups” living a life of leisure, as the child they once were would have liked. These characters remain as vectors of truth, as is often the case with characters in children's literature. Taking the entire oeuvre into account, the article thus seeks to capture the contours of the idealized image of the child in Francois Blais' work: does he adopt commonplace notions associated with children or does he offer a counterpoint?
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The article examines the presence of tragedy in Blanchotean thinking. Based on the commentary on the fragments of L'Écriture du désastre (The Writing of Disaster) entitled « (Une scène primitive?) » (“A Primitive Scene ?”), the analysis highlights the fundamental irreconcilability of man with himself, which haunts all of Blanchot's work. The first part of the reflection focuses on the paradox of a knowledge of oneself that is both necessary and undermined. It then underlines the importance of the improper body and denaturation in Blanchotean writing and shows that it is the whole being that is put to the test by the intensity of a pathos associated with both original and immemorial disconformity. The analysis subsequently shows that reflection on the fragment as a statement of being should be interpreted in Blanchot as the tragic experience, both disappropriative and jubilant, of an ontological wandering.
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Noting a constant increase in the use of antidepressants in Canada, the writer calls into question representations relating to the pertinence of certain underlying principles or values followed in Canadian Criminal law, particularly assumptions surrounding certain notions such as intent, will and awareness in assessing imputation. The writer underscores the timeworn applications of these notions in Criminal Law in comparison to recent developments in psychology and in philosophy of mind. To what does one allude in the context of modernism when one utilizes expressions such as "guilty intent" or "blameworthy state of mind"? To what does the criminal law refer when it uses words such as "consciousness" or "will". This text criticizes the commonly held understanding of the notion of free will, which, like imputation, relates to concepts of theological origin which are no longer adapted to present day situations. It also discusses how to assess or evaluate actions performed under the influence of psychotropic drugs.
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Research on policy implementation and street-level bureaucracies often tackles the issue of the discretionary power at the individual level, starting with frontline workers' freedom of action in the field. Based on an ethnographic study of the administration responsible for processing asylum requests in Switzerland, this article analyzes the issue differently: on the basis of the social, institutional, and legal mediations used by the law to guide actors' behaviours. The analysis of the mediations between laws and practices (decisions on asylum demands) shows the importance of a collective normative power of the administration, insofar as the caseworkers and their supervisors develop “secondary implementation norms.” This article shows that there are legal and social concepts and processes that frame, steer, and constrain caseworkers' practices in implementing the law.
Keywords: asile, droit, street-level bureaucracy, médiations du droit, pouvoir discrétionnaire, asylum, law, street-level bureaucracy, mediation in law, discretionary power