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When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which boasted its own sophisticated philosophical traditions. This article explores how Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) deploys and adapts in his pioneering Chinese catechism, Tianzhu shilu 天主實錄 (The true record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584), innovations in the catechism genre that Jesuit missionaries had originally developed for Japan. By comparing Ruggieri’s arguments for the existence of God with those found in the Catechismus christianae fidei (Catechism of the Christian faith, 1586) composed by Alessandro Valignano (1539–1606) for the Japan mission, this article shows that Ruggieri lays the groundwork for a transcultural natural theology that de-emphasizes metaphysics in favour of arguments derived from a shared ethical understanding and political analogies.
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Keywords: cinéma québécois, cinéma de genre, distribution, réception du cinéma, sous-cultures
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This article proposes to analyze the corpus of writings constituting the “Querelle des Amyes” via the concept of “anti-eroticism.” This approach enables a clearer understanding of the highly paradoxical and multi-layered dynamics of these works, whose primary aim was to educate a female readership. Caught between subversion and conformity, texts that might at first appear starkly opposed turn out to be united in proposing an educational program which, while aporetic, offers valuable matter for reflection. On this view, the “Querelle des Amyes” corpus follows squarely in the footsteps of the broader “Querelle des Femmes,” although never showing a particular preference for either of the opposing camps. Being the key to an interpretation that is in effect no more than a problem or promise, Antéros unveils the (potential) nature of these texts’ meaning, which can only be understood as a tension between contradictory positions whose opposition is also the source of their significance.
Keywords: Querelle des Amyes, Antéros, Antérotisme, Paradoxe, Perfectionnement, Genre
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“A bit of sociology takes you away from the law ; a lot of sociology brings you back to the law.” This aphorism sums up the author's career as a law professor. During the first part of his career, at Université Laval, his specialization in legal sociology and his preference for an external approach to law distanced him from positive law as an object of teaching and research. The second part of his career, on the contrary, marks a clear reconciliation with an internal perspective. The author describes the particularities of his contract law course, which he taught for twelve years as part of McGill University's transsystemic law education program : the objective of training in critical legal thinking, the systematic attention to contemporary socio-legal facts that transform contractual practices, and the dialectical confrontation of conventional and alternative contract law theories. In retrospect, the author notes that this pedagogical experience has remained deeply inspired by Georges Gurvitch's legal sociology.
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The COVID 19 health crisis has had a particularly significant impact on the catering sector in France (restaurant closures, mass departures, etc.). But to what extent has the resulting destabilization disrupted the previous way the sector operates? In this article, we explore the extent to which the health crisis has undermined its "ordinary normativity", characterized by a strong demand for loyalty through informal arrangements, and the distancing of national andstate regulations. To do this, we will draw on material from two studies: one on restaurant directors and managers confronted with the health crisis, and the other on cooks' relationship to work. We show that, while the health crisis was accompanied by control regulations that were fairly well received by employers, it also put to test the informal supports on which loyalty is built in working relationships in the sector. The closures represented a suspended period of time, invested by employers in the continuity of previous modes of regulation. But the conditions of the reopening and the wage standards of regulation introduced by government aids helped to cast a shadow over the sector's "ordinary normativity" and gave rise to conflicts of loyalty - the scope and limits of which need to be questioned.
Keywords: Restaurant industry, Restauration, Covid19, Covid19, Activity, Activité, Regulation, Régulation, Loyalty, Loyauté
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