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Based on the theoretical framework of discoincidence proposed by the philosopher François Jullien, this article explores the challenges of humanizing medical care, as well as the introduction of the spiritual dimension in the care of the patients. Finally, he discusses the possible dialogue between these contemporary reflections and the considerations of the Lutheran theologian Paul Tillich on health.
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History and theoretical analysis constitute two separate cognitive fields within theatre studies. With regard to the history of theatre, we can distinguish two positions. According to the first, history records and provides the raw material for each secondary thought on the theatrical events. What is often disputed is the "objective" character of historical material. According to the second, the history of theatre is not an obvious accumulation of events, since it cannot reproduce the past. It provides, rather, an endless text that interprets the past. Each historical reason contains a partially developed and often implied philosophy of history. The combination of these two positions gives us all the dynamics of historical reason and opens a dialogue with the theories of theatre.
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In a century where every fields of life (politics, economy, technology) is organized by capitalism, human symbols, the artistic creation and the aesthetic sense are on life-support as the perfusion is administered by commercial logics and the financialization of art. If the driving force of the aesthetic sense is thus subjected to a relative heteronomy, it is still possible to disrupt this « aesthetic driving force, daughter of capitalism” in resisting its invasive character that leads to the appalling disfigurement of life. These interrogations must challenge, repetitively and across several angles, the functionalism that invades the “aesthetic dimension” of human destiny through the exploitation of his attention and his imagination. While re-creating the aesthetic sense, the piece of art must acquire a different status through this process that encourages the displacement of our interest from the object to the work inflicted to the object, from the object as a product to the conditions of productions that inform us on the laborer as much as on his working conditions. This renewed glimpse surpasses the fatality of the possible merchandising allowed by the materiality of the object. Rather, it concentrates on the object as a site of dialogue on what it does or does not promise, what it communicates or what it prevents from communicating. While the piece of art is abducted by mass culture, its shortcuts, its collusions, its calculated consecration, its regulated markets, its cultural grandmesses and its disdain for everything that does resist to its accounting logics, we must restore its aura (to talk with Walter Benjamin). The esthetic sense will then become the place for an exploration of the Subject's motivations, the complications of his imagination, his utopias and the status of the piece of art that fingers out the complexity of our lives.
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Because of a rather heterogeneous population, mixing various cultures, and ethnic groups, the intercultural character of Canada, and particularly of Québec, can be viewed a form of intangible heritage. Combining two internal monologues expressing a conflict of generations, the story “L'immense fatigue des pierres,” from the eponymous book by Régine Robin, outlines through fiction the city of Montréal, the Jewish condition, wandering and the issue of multilingualism. Professor, sociologist, novelist-essayist and essayist-novelist, Robin draws, over the course of a bio-fictional narrative, the image of Montréal as a welcoming place where it is possible to elaborate, construct, and deconstruct belongings and memories. The American literary context is rich in these imaginary scenes featuring the insertion of individuals from migrations. In Brazil, the writer Moacyr Scliar devoted almost all his works to the issue of Jewish immigration and its inclusion in the national context. This writer, who has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, has written more than eighty books, essays, tales and novels, such that the fictional examples of these themes are numerous. We will consider, as a counterpoint to the text of Régine Robin, the journey of two protagonists of the novel Sa Majesté des Indiens who leave Europe for Brazil with their families, each migrating to a different region and reality. The story reveals, through the experiences lived by these persons, the cultural diversity of the country.
Keywords: Américanité, littérature québécoise, littérature brésilienne, errance, altérité, identité juive, transferts culturels, Americanism, Québec literature, Brazilian literature, wandering, otherness, Jewish identity, cultural transfers
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AbstractAn essential moment of A.J. Greimas' semiotics is the formation of modal theory. It is a complex theory, which, in the stages of its development, involves the evolution of the thoughts and the epistemology of the author of Du Sens. This short essay attempts to illustrate the stakes, for general semiotics and for the philosophy of language, of this theoretic construction. We propose a study of modal theory at the intersection of two perspectives. The first is that of the historic passage from Du sens to Du sens II : by analysing numerous extracts from both texts, we will demonstrate how this passage constitutes the true turning point in the greimassien intellectual adventure. With the study of modalities of being, Greimas finally conceived a sense that was not “ communicational ” and general, but rather “ transformational ” and local. The second perspective, which follows, is that of the actual interest generated by this complexification of modal theory : this approach has opened up the possibility of studying aesthesia and experienced meaning. After a re-reading of these foundational Greimas essays, we can here define, both in an operational manner and within the context of their epistemological scopes, some key concepts of semiotics, such as, among others, tensivity, aesthesia, event, imperfection, value, and configuration.
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This article is concerned with the way the self-portraitist in literature answers the great question “Who Am I?”—which is not to question self-confidence—by means of indirect strategies, beyond the simple representation of the body, and using instead elements like astrological signs, Chinese portraits, personality tests, descriptions of the clothes or the backdrops in which the creation of the self-portrait occurs. Ultimately, the text observes that the defining reference of the portrait is not the person represented but the representation of a character conceived in terms of the prospect that it will be seen, and constructed, at the same time, by social prejudices concerning appearances.
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AbstractWhat is the African novel's relationship to realism? To highlight the richness and multiplicity of fictional forms, this article aims to show that the mimetic relationship African writers believed they developed with the world was in part illusory, and that their pretence of transparency masked the tricks and processes of rhetoric. The fact that the African novel is not as mimetic as a certain critical thought would have us believe does not prevent it from telling us much about a reality still anchored in History, and from attempting to define the truth of it. When it reaches to the edge of what drives it, it is an unparalleled instrument for analyzing social cogs and mechanisms. Where the African novel succeeds best in revealing social truth is in its fictional universe, in its imagination, in its writing or its poetics.
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This article presents an unpublished interview with British writer Aldous Huxley, conducted by Hubert Aquin for the Premier Plan television program and broadcast by Radio-Canada on June 12th 1960. By analysing how the interview was produced, broadcast, and received by the public ; and by placing it in the context of several major interviews undertaken by Aquin in 1960, the article provides a better understanding of the impact of Aquin's career as a journalist on his intellectual development as a writer, political activist, and media figure. Finally, the article underscores the significance of newly accessible audio-visual sources related to Aquin held at the Université de Montréal, sources that offer new perspectives on his life's work.