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The quick rise of the United States in the 19th century helped fuel France's fear of decline on the international stage. To counter this situation, French authors proposed the political union of all the Latin races of Europe. The imperial regime of Napoleon III redesigned this project in order to integrate it in his Mexican venture. Promoting the “grande pensée du règne”, France presented itself as the only Latin power capable of defending Mexico from the United States. The “grande pensée du règne” sought to establish an international balance of power in America based on race rather than on nationality.
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The question of the foreigner remains, as is well known, a pressing issue, now more than ever, even as “we allow the intolerable to happen : not just death, suffering, deportation, nameless woe, but also the imbecilic destruction of Europe and the Mediterranean's chances in the new world to come,” as Jacques Derrida already noted in August 1995. This article retraces his seminars and public interventions as he calls for another concept of hospitality, thus wresting it away from fantasies of blood and autochthony, even from the notion of a common language. Indeed, his emphasis on hostipitality gives rise to another experience of citizenship and of the political, of responsibility before the other. Lastly, the relationship between unconditional hospitality and non-knowledge also helps explain why a politics that tries to measure up to it necessarily implies poetic invention. More so than other aspects (geopolitics, urban planning, social work, international law) that are affected by the problem of hospitality, hospitality's poetic dimension may well reveal itself to be the most crucial of all.
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This article focuses on the deadly issues at stake that diverse contexts of totalitarian violence represent for the living. Situating Duras' singular work “The Pain” in her literary canon, the article elaborates upon an interrogation into the unconscious psychic processes that are specific to mourning and pathological mourning, or “Melancholia” per Freud, Lacan and Ricoeur. This leads to a reflection on the way in which, confronted by textual boundaries that are not publicised, heavily influenced by the imagining of another's death, the reader can find himself in a dangerous position. Times 0 and 1 from the oral transmission passing from the surviving witness (Antelme) to the imaginary witness (Moscolo) positioned as psychic repository (Jurgenson) are summarized. From there, an appropriate stratification specific to both invested authorities in “The Pain” emerges, and can move closer to an ethical position on the subject of writing and readership authority.
Keywords: disparition, mort, totalitarisme, deuil, disappearance, death, totalitarian, mourning
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It may be surprising at first sight to refer to such an old concept, the Antemurale Christianitatis, to analyse the contemporary politics of a European state. Yet, in Poland, as in other countries that have been attributed this label, the idea of being the defensive wall of Christianity has taken root in their national consciousness and continues to appear here and there, in political speeches, public debates, and journalistic editorials. Based on the idea that the term “Poland, bulwark of Christianity” was, beyond its religious aspect, the expression of Poland's geostrategic position in 15th century Europe, and considering its longevity in the Polish national narrative, this paper aims to assess the relevance of the Antemurale Christianitatis or Przedmurze chrześcijaństwa in Polish in the analysis of the place and role of contemporary Poland on the European continent.
Keywords: rempart, espace, relations internationales, Pologne, populisme, bulwark, geopolitics, international relations, Poland, populism
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