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Keywords: Nationalisation, transnationalisme, keynésianisme, libéralisme économique, planification étatique, Hydro-Québec, énergie électrique, 20e siècle, Québec (province)
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Digital humanities is a rapidly developing field. Here, it is illustrated through a computer analysis of the evolution of ideas expressed in a philosophy journal from its 1974 inception. To do this, we selected the journal Philosophiques, published by the Société de philosophie du Québec. The articles of this journal had never been the object of an in-depth study.The detailed examination proceeds in three stages. Since studies on the recent evolution of ideas in Quebec philosophy are rare, we first recall some preceding research results obtained by the traditional means of philosophy (Simard 1998). The articles of the journal are then subjected to a double computational treatment, the first one being of a more deductive style, the other one more inductive. Finally, the results of this double analysis are compared with the one realized in 1998, conducted on a corpus composed mainly of philosophy books. The results obtained are clear : a computer-aided analysis complements accurately the results of more traditional research. We conclude with some future perspectives on the digital humanities applied in the philosophical realm.
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Philippe Garigue became involved in numerous theoretical and normative debates in Québec, which prompted him to embark on a similar exercise for French Ontario after coming to Toronto in 1980. Garigue has an original viewpoint of this community, one which brings to the foreground Toronto's particular position in the context of French-speaking Ontario. Garigue's works on Francophone Ontario have almost no echo among the contemporary works about this society. We mobilize this corpus in order to respond to two questions: What are Philippe Garigue's contributions to the study of French Ontario? To what degree are these contributions still current? This article has three parts. First, we present a brief biography of the sociologist. Second, we synthesize Garigue's contributions according to four themes: community life, education, politics, and identity. Third, we explore the parallels between Garigue's work and the work of scholars who put forth a postnational approach to study French Ontario, though there are certain disagreements between these works as well.
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AbstractHow can the study of visual culture respond to the increasing interest in the “presence” of the image? Can this phenomenological concern for the power of the object to determine its own reception be related to approaches that emphasize its political potential? Is it possible to conceive the image as “presentation” and “representation” at the same time?
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Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the composite statue in Daniel 2 has belonged to the traditional folklore of the Judeo-Christian tradition since Antiquity. Since the figure of Nebuchadnezzar is based largely on Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (556-539 BC), this article offers new elements of reflection on the origin of this vision, arguing that the motif of the succession of empires originated during the reign of Nabonidus, and that the demands of Nebuchadnezzar to the Chaldeans reflect a reminiscence of the obsession of Nabonidus for his own dreams and their mantic content.
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This article revisits the phenomenon of « taking possession », one of the mechanisms through which the French attempted to extend sovereignty overseas during the 16th -18th centuries, by exploring it through the joint lenses of religion, gender, and Imperium Studies. It examines this symbolic hold on lands intended to constitute the kingdom of France, first by observing the dilatatio regnum regi in France and in Europe, and then by comparing these to French expansion in America. The article formulates hypotheses for how one might rethink attempts to deploy French royal authority over peoples of the Old and New Worlds.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital was the largest asylum in Canada and the therapeutic skills of its operators and psychiatrists were internationally renowned. Consultation of over 8000 medical files from this psychiatric institution uncovered valuable correspondence between the families of patients (petitioners) and medical superintendents on the subject of trial leave. These primary sources describe the comings and goings of patients between the hospital and the family home. They also reveal fears for a future when the patient might return home permanently. This study of the cultural history of sensibilities examines, from the perspective of “risk”, the private and intimate dimensions of the contemplation of potential misfortune caused by the return of a family member who was deemed mentally retarded, incurably insane, or senile demented. In particular, the article focuses on the discourse surrounding “events that had yet to occur” that prompted petitioners to reject the unconditional release of a family member from the psychiatric hospital.