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AbstractThis article represents the first in a series of studies on the possibility of envisioning practical theology from the perspective of apophatism. The thesis behind this effort rests on the assertion that all theological discourse has to be able to affect those around us. As a result, it is necessary to understand language as a process rather than a substrate. This point of view has been taken up urgently for fifty years following what has come to be called the “Linguistic Turn”. A clarification of the stakes raised by this proof can be made by establishing a link between certain developments from Wittgenstein and the understanding of the via negativa as it is presented by ancient authors.
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In Lévinas' work the feminine plays a crucial role : first encountered in the erotic relationship, it breaks the circle of sameness, opening it to the salutary dimension of transcendence. However, though some thought that in this he was breaking away from phallogocentrism, Stella Sandford shows us, following Beauvoir, to what point he remains masculinist. Without demonstrating any critical distance, Lévinas associates the feminine with the ambiguity of Eros, with sexual difference, establishing it as the inviolable and almost animal, irresponsible or childish other of a masculine subject. Beauvoir's critique was therefore to the point, and the Derrida of "Violence and metaphysics" would have done well to ask himself what man was wielding Lévinas's pen when he wrote, instead of delighting in the fact that he was writing as a man.
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We would like to do for China what Barthes did for Japan. From ordinarily singular outcomes sketching out a faint but somewhat pervasive vision. With the usual words of our own mother language filing down the Great Wall of Signs until opening a vent. It won’t be something for the Academia, neither a Guide Book, nor a Dissertation on Chinese Linguistics. But a wonky guy, to whom you won’t give a dime, but will nevertheless carefully listen to for it will be nothing but the translation into words of a bundle of encounters, reminiscences and intuitions erupting from the swinging lava flowing in his neural vessels and pointing out to a crystallizing notion of It. Like the refined construction of a dainty jetty for a boat that will whatever never come.
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In a world haunted by the worst case scenario, today the mobility of individuals is less often perceived as an opportunity, an effect of the global market, or an outcome of human suffering. On the contrary, mobility is increasingly associated with images of risk and threat, which justify a diffraction of practices of control and surveillance of individuals in transit. The strategies renew and reinforce the fight against terrorism since the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the context of the “war on terror” have had major consequences for practice. Security is viewed in the pretence of protection and prevention and surveillance and control become central in this costly quest for “zero risk”. This article presents how the surveillance of populations' movements has intensified. It also aims to show how this increased control reinforces the anxiety, suspicion and hostility at the heart of our Western societies.
Keywords: Terrorisme, antiterrorisme, migration, surveillance, mobilité, Terrorism, anti-terrorism, migration, security, mobility, Terrorismo, antiterrorismo, migraciones, vigilancia, movilidad
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AbstractWhen it comes to repetition, in this case a humorous one, might not the most important aspect be, paradoxically, the novelty? The variations? At least as far as expression is concerned, for in the field of behavior, reactions must really be similar, on the contrary, in order to make people laugh or smile in certain situations. As a mode of human reaction, repetition reminds us of the Jack-in-the-box mechanism (the character of the drunk, of the opponent, of the chatterbox)) and as a polyvalent means of expression, it is used by La Fontaine to create a rather amusing tone. It is stylistically polymorphous: resounding echoes, triple rhymes, repetition of ideas with a slight difference, escalation, mocking pleonasm…