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A foundation of the hermeneutic sociology proposed by Johann Michel is that humans are “self-interpreting” and, potentially, reflexive beings who put into narrative their individual and collective experience. This narrative work is a cornerstone of democratic societies, which are built on the “self-institution” of social life and, to use Claude Lefort's term, the “dismantling of the markers of communal certainty.” In this article, we posit that the pandemic has profoundly undermined our capacity to deploy the narrative markers indispensable to the creation and maintenance of a community of citizens. As amplified by the health crisis, “conspiracy polemics” turn the public debate into confrontation between “doubt” and “knowledge,” the “strong” and the “weak.” In the process, the narrative plotting or, to use Paul Ricoeur's term, the emplotment (mise en intrigue) of social life, has degraded into a binary confrontation that removes the axiological holds that support public judgment and civic decision making. More generally, the (anti-)conspiracy confrontation and the related pathologies of narratives shed light on the exhaustion of our democratic public spheres.
Keywords: Espace public, démocratie, (anti)complotisme, récit, intrigue, Public sphere, democracy, (anti-)conspiracy, narrative, intrigue, Espacio público, democracia, auto-institución, (anti)conspiración, narrativa, trama
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AbstractA study of regional development councils makes it possible to analyse the social capital prevalent in the regions of Québec. Defined as the capacity and the will to cooperate that occur within a social fabric, thus encompassing both the institutional and the individual aspects, social capital is seen to vary considerably from one region to another. This intensity of course depends on the historical course specific to each region, but it appears that three conditions may either facilitate or hamper the burgeoning of social capital: a common sense of belonging, the quality of the participation of the different social strata in regional life and the scope and strength of the dominance exercised over the population.
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Contemporary writings set in Montreal often narrate a much broader area than the city proper, a focal point in an imaginary web that reaches across the planet : Nicolas Dickner's Nikolski or Monique LaRue's latest opus, L'Œil de Marquise, are but two examples. Conversely, some authors elect to shrink Montreal down to just one of its neighbourhoods. Bernard Émond's 20h17 rue Darling, a novel, and Gabriel Landry's collected poems L'Œil au calendrier are the two quite different sources through which this essay seeks to understand how life in Montreal can be understood from, and embodied in just one of its neighbourhoods, Hochelaga. In particular, this essay looks at how this metonymic and improbable representation of Montreal's collective and contemporary soul addresses time and its interaction with space as experienced by narrators.
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Exhibiting video art in a museum setting often raises questions related to the practice of subtitling for the purposes of multilingual dissemination of the artwork. In many cases, the use of such technical means results in a significant loss of meaning or even the complete obliteration of the sound dimension of the work, although it can also give rise to a decompartmentalization of artistic mediums and a simultaneity of experiences. Some artists, for their part, use subtitling as a full artistic medium—for instance, the Canadian artist of Slovak origin Vera Frenkel and the Albanian Anri Sala.
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Philosophy may only include death through Reason although rumor has it that philosophers, through their mind systems, clutter with explanations what only sacred space and various faiths would be entitled to give. It is true that philosophy offers no certainty and that it is not its task; death is the culminating point of anxiety that philosophy claims not to avoid or to cover its questions; it can never spare suffering and death. Thus, authors such as Plato, Seneca, Epictetus, Jean-Luc Nancy, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Arthur Schopenhauer, Michel Serres and Czech poet Vladimir Holan elaborate on a few ideas on this death which lacerates our minds and forces us rethink this, our temporary universe, constantly.
Keywords: philosophie, mort, vérité, conscience, métaphysique, croyances, matérialisme, philosophy, death, truth, conscience, metaphysics, beliefs, materialism
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Keywords: lecture, multimodalité, numérique, imaginaire, représentations mentales, poésie
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The question of "terminal sedation" due to existential suffering raises many debates in palliative circles. To shed light on this debate, I sought to identify the orientation of these discussions and to discern what they tell us about the relationship of medicine to the suffering of people at the end of life. So, I first examined the vocabulary. Then, I analyzed the concept of total pain that Cicely Saunders, the founder of palliative care, had developed. Subsequently I tried to identify the reasons why this concept no longer seems to meet current needs. Finally, I propose some working orientations to make existential suffering the heart of end-of-life care.