This book investigates the largely unexplored terrain of the lives of Baul Gurus by studying the autobiography of Baul Guru, Raj Krishna, and situating Baul songs in a larger socio-historical perspective. The author examines the life, 'lineage', and legacy of Raj Krishna in the context of the Renaissance in colonial Bengal, the growth of urban middle classes, transforming identities and the development of spiritual philosophy in the subcontinent. She traces the life and beliefs of Raj and his disciples through both (...) oral and written sources. This volume also provides a comprehensive picture of the religious and socio-cultural aspirations of the people being addressed by the Baul Gurus. The appendices of the volume are also very informative with a translieration of the original text, and discussions on the methods of dating and analyzing Baul texts. (shrink)

Articles on the life and works of Āraja Ālī Mātubbara, 1901-1986, Muslim philosopher and author from Bangladesh.

Articles on the life and philosophy of Āraja Ālī Mātubbara, 1901-1986, Muslim philosopher and author from Bangladesh.

The author was a Bengali officer of India's Foreign Service. On his first foreign assignment during 1948 - 1954, he came across rare manuscripts at the National Library in Bangkok covering Rabindranath Tagore's visit to Thailand in October 1927. Having learnt the Thai language and being a Tagore aficionado, this discovery was fortuitous. "As the Poet travelled mostly without a stenographer, a great many of his speeches would have been lost to posterity. Reports about the Siam visit available in (...) India then were extremely sketchy..... Besides the material on the Poets visit to Thailand, this book contains some other important documents not readily available. The main treatise is split into four chapters: Time to Awake: A Poets Warning, Tagores Conception of History, Message to Asia And Africa and The Toiler for Peace. These chapters show what Tagore considered to be the biggest problem of human history, how he warned humanity for more than half a century against the problems and perils into which the world has been thrown today, what remedies he suggested to counter them. The author also condensed the Poet's ideas about civilisation and culture, freedom, power, diplomacy, colonialism, military alliances, racial prejudice and nationalism." This book, when first published during the Poet's centenary celebrations in 1961, provided for the first time a full account of that visit. It has since been a reference source for many Indian and international scholars on Tagore, with citations in their publications. With increased attention in recent years to Tagore's views on Nationalism, a republication for wider availability would benefit both readers and scholars on Tagore's view of global events during the inter-War period. This is the only republication of the book after sixty years. (shrink)

The author in this book, explores through sociological, philosophical, and psychological lens the contradiction in novelist Bibhutibhushan bandopadhyay's desire for a golden primitive past as opposed to what he perceives as the evils of European modernity and its influence on Bengali society. This contradiction, the author suggests is best portrayed in his novel, Pather Panchali, where the protagonists are both dismayed by the onslaught of modernity while simultaneously aspiring to embrace it.

Complete works of a Bengali Marxist philosopher and author.

The article is devoted to the philosophical views of Swami Vivekananda, reflected in his commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The text under study is one of the few Indian commentaries on the Yoga Sutras translated into Russian. The object of the study is a widespread translation of the commentary, made and published by Ya. K. Popov in 1906. The popularity of yoga as a health-improving practice increases interest in its spiritual component, therefore, the study of Vivekananda's commentary on (...) the Yoga Sutras seems to be an urgent task. The purpose of this article is to analyze Vivekananda's commentary for the authenticity of the transmission of the content of the ancient text and the reflection of the teachings of the Bengali thinker. Since Vivekananda's commentary on the Yoga Sutras has not been studied by domestic orientalists, and has not received comprehensive coverage in foreign studies, the results of his analysis contain scientific novelty. Using the hermeneutical method, it is revealed that the philosopher forms a commentary on the ancient text mainly to demonstrate the basics of his teaching. Vivekananda's work expresses his Orient-centric position, as well as the author's beliefs in accordance with the provisions of yoga to his contemporary science. Since the philosopher's views are in line with Advaita Vedanta, the ontological foundations of yoga are interpreted by him according to this philosophical school. The commentary of the late XIX century anticipates modern ideas of the healing potential of yoga and the superiority of experienced knowledge of the Divine, and also demonstrates the predictive talent of the Bengali thinker. (shrink)

Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry, politics, and theology. An unusually well-informed lay intellectual, who had earned a theological degree just before the Council, Novak applauded the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI-"to throw open the windows of the church." In this report, he coined the classic description of the foes of the reforms at Vatican II as the party of "nonhistorical orthodoxy," emphasizing (...) the eternal and unchanging, neglecting history and contingency. The author recounts many moments of high drama-Pope Paul VI's opening speech, the vote on the collegiality of bishops, the plea of Cardinal Bea on behalf of the chapter on Jews, and Bishop De Smedt's defense of religious freedom. His colorful chapter on the American bishops in 1964 serves as a fascinating benchmark, as do his many insights into the new role of the laity. His final chapter is a moving tribute to the Open Church engaging the contemporary world, and his new introduction brings this report up to date. This work will be of compelling interest to those interested in the post-conciliar fall of Communism, under the great John Paul II-who took his name from his two predecessors at Vatican II. The winner of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, Michael Novak is a theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. where he is director of social and political studies. His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Chinese, Bengali, Korean, and Japanese. Also available from Transaction are his Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions, The Experience of Nothingness, The Guns of Lattimer, Unmeltable Ethnics, Belief and Unbelief, and Choosing Presidents. (shrink)

This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore's multi-faceted genius. It has two parts: critical surveys of the chief sectors of his artistic output and its reception; specialized studies of particular topics. The authors are among the leading Tagore experts from India and abroad. They have drawn upon all relevant material in Bengali, English, and other languages, including the entire body of untranslated Bengali works that comprise the (...) greater part of Tagore's oeuvre. They have also considered the historical and cultural context of his time. The book includes an index of all primary works cited, with full details of their complex history of transmission, and a reading list for Tagore studies in English. It will be an indispensable guide for all scholars, students and informed general readers, even those who can access Tagore in Bengali. (shrink)

The main objective of this collection of papers is to explore ideas of generation and transformation in the context of postdependency discourse as it may be traced in women’s writing published in Bengali, Polish, Czech, Russian and English. As we believe, literature does not have merely a descriptive function or a purely visionary quality but serves also as a discursive medium, which is rhetorically sophisticated, imaginatively influential and stimulates cultural dynamics. It is an essential carrier of collective memory and (...) a significant indicator of group identity. Along with philosophy, literature explores the intellectual and emotional, aesthetic and ethical components of our lives, and, while focusing on a single feeling or unique event or phenomenon, aspires to capture the universal attributes of human experience. Hence, we intend to juxtapose interpretations of literature originating in very different cultural milieus, such as the Central East European and South Asian,with the literary treatment of the philosophical dilemmas that challenge authors of various nationalities in times of great political, economic and social upheaval and transformation following long periods of dependency and suppression, caused either by colonial and imperialist domination or by communist ideology. (shrink)

Short stories by a 20th century Bengali author.

In this paper the sameness and difference between two distinguished Indian authors, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932) and Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926), representing two generations almost a century apart, will be under analysis in order to trace the generational transformation in women’s writing in India, especially Bengal. Situated in the colonial and postcolonial frames of history, Hossain and Mahasweta Devi may be contextualized differently. At the same time their subjects are also differently categorized; the former is not particularly concerned with subalterns (...) whereas the latter specifically focuses on the effect of race and class on gender. The quest for the ‘self’ and ‘subjectivity’ is more pertinent in the latter and consequently the appeal for agency is based on a crude power struggle. Hossain, a philanthropist who championed the woman question, believed that striving for equality should be a collective process which could be achieved by spreading awareness among fellow-inmates inhabiting the prison of patriarchy. Like Euro-American first-wave feminists, Rokeya advocated the necessity of education among women in order for them to be able to comprehend their plight and ‘awake’ for the cause. She addresses fundamental issues of feminism like education and the systematized claustrophobia within the domestic space. Whereas Mahasweta Devi, has been an activist writer who is regarded as the brand ambassador for the support of the marginalized, deprived and denotified tribes of India. It is her mission to provide succour to the marginalized sections, especially tribes from the Purulia district of West Bengal, like the Kherias and Shabars. As an activist writer she explores tribal life and allied socio-political issues which reflect their agony. (shrink)

Noam Chomsky (1928 – ) Noam Chomsky is an American linguist who has had a profound impact on philosophy. Chomsky’s linguistic work has been motivated by the observation that nearly all adult human beings have the ability to effortlessly produce and understand a potentially infinite number of sentences. For instance, it is very likely that … Continue reading Noam Chomsky →.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Volume 26 Number 1 March 2012 ARTICLES An Inferential Model of Scientific Understanding Mark Newman 1 Evidence and the Assessment of Causal Rela...

Journées Dilthey.Les 3-4 décembre 1999 ont eu lieu à la Maison de la Recherche de Lille deux journées de travail consacrées à Wilhelm Dilthey, organisées dans le cadre du réseau thématique « Herméneutique, Mythe et Image », associant les Universités de Bourgogne-Dijon, de Lille 3, l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, les Universités de Lausanne, de Neuchâtel et de Zürich ainsi que l’Institut Catholique de Paris. Organisées par André Laks et Denis Thouard, ces journées se donnaient pour objectif u..

Quia inter doctores est magna dissentio (Université de Parme, 17-18 mai 2002) Au cours de ces dernières années, les études sur la philosophie naturelle au XIVe siècle se sont multipliées, modifiant profondément la vision traditionnelle d'un siècle marqué par le nominalisme d'Ockham et de J. Buridan. L'UMR « Savoirs et Textes » et l'Université de Parme (J.Celeyrette et S.Caroti) ont donc pris l'initiative d'organiser les 17 et 18 mai 2002 à l’Université de Parme un colloque international.

El foco de interés de este número está centrado en el tema de la globalización, el cual ha sido tratado en los artículos de la sección Lente de Aproximación. La idea de “globalización” contiene una carga semántica absolutamente disímil para las personas dependiendo de donde estén ubicados, sea en el norte o en el sur de nuestro planeta, o en el norte o sur de nuestros países. Según algunos autores, implica para la mayoría dimensiones perversas y destructivas, mientras que otros (...) piensan en l.. (shrink)

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Pierre Corbin, Avec des dictionnaires pour compagnons.Habilitation à diriger des recherches soutenue le 24 novembre 2006. Composition du jury Henri Béjoint (Lyon 2) Franz Josef Hausmann (Erlangen-Nürnberg) Benoît Habert (Paris 10) Pierre Rézeau (CNRS) Michel Roché (Toulouse 2) Danièle Van de Velde (Lille 3, UMR STL), Directrice d'habilitation. Philippe Sabot, La philosophie, entre pratiques de lecture et pratiques d'écritureHabilitation à diriger des recherches soutenue le 24 novembre 2006. C..

Leśniewski: Logic Stanisław Leśniewski (1886-1939) was a Polish logician and philosopher, co-founder with his colleague Jan Łukasiewicz of one of the most active logic centers of the twentieth century: the Warsaw School of Logic. As an alternative to Whitehead’s and Russell’s Principia Mathematica, he developed his own program for the foundations of mathematics on the … Continue reading Lesniewski: Logic →.

Fabienne Blaise« L'expérience délirante de la raison divine : les Bacchantes d'Euripide », Methodos 3 (Figures de l'irrationel), 2003, p. 35-60. Jean Bollack– L'écrit. Une poétique dans l'oeuvre de Celan, Paris (PUF, « Perspectives germaniques »), 2003, 231 p. – Empédocle. Les purifications. Un projet de paix universelle, édité, traduit et commenté par J. Bollack, Paris (Seuil, « Points. Essais »), 2003, 144p. – « Une autre Antigone et un autre Œdipe », dans C. Botella, Penser les limites. Éc..

Fabio Acerbi - « I codici stilistici della matematica greca : dimostrazioni, procedure, algoritmi », Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n. s., 101(2), 2012, p. 167-214. - « Commentari, scolii e annotazioni marginali ai trattati matematici greci », Segno e Testo 10, 2012, p. 139-222. -« The Number of Endings of the Adjective συναμφότερος », Glotta 88, 2012, p. 1-8. Dany Amiot [avec K. Van Goethem], « A constructional account of French -clé 'key' and Dutch sleutel- 'key' in mot-clé / (...) sleute.. (shrink)

Fabienne Blaise- F. Blaise, P. Judet de La Combe et Ph. Rousseau (éds.) : Le Métier du mythe. Lectures d'Hésiode (Villeneuve d'Ascq, PUS, 1996) - traduction chinoise à paraître aux éditions Huaxia Publishing House of China, Pékin, en 2005. Jean Bollack- La Muerte de Antigona. La tragedia de Creonte. Traduction en espagnol de La Mort d'Antigone (Paris, PUF, 1999) par Arnaud Pons et de Xavier Riu, Arena Libros, coll. Tempo al Tempo, Madrid 2004, 144 p. - Sentido contra sentido. ¿ (...) Como se lee.. (shrink)

ACERBI Fabio“A Reference to Perfect Numbers in Plato's Theaetetus”, Archive for History of Exact Science, 59/2005, p. 319-348. Comptes-rendus - Cleomedes Lectures on Astronomy : a Translation of The Heavens with an Introduction and Commentary by Alan C. Bowen and Robert B. Todd, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2004, dans Nunciu, 20/2005, p. 232-233. - D. Fowler, The Mathematics of Plato’s Academy: A New Reconstruction, Second Edition, Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford..

ACERBI Fabio« Archimedes and the Angel: Phantom Paths from Problems to Equations » Aestimatio 2 (2005), paru en 2006, p. 169-226. Compte-rendu J. Schönbeck, Euklid, Basel/Boston/Berlin, Birkhaüser 2003, dans Nuncius 21 (2006), p. 157-159. BABAULT SophieLangues, école et société à Madagascar. Normes scolaires, pratiques langagières, enjeux sociaux, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006, 320 p. BENDJABALLAH SabrinaAvec Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, « Modification of the Noun in Somali: Comparative Evidence from..

Acerbi Fabio- Euclide, Tutte le Opere. A cura di F. Acerbi. Milano, Bompiani 2007, 2713 p. - « Una scuola matematica alessandrina ? »,, in C. Bartocci, P. Odifreddi (éds.), La Matematica, Vol. 1. I luoghi e i tempi. Torino, Einaudi 2007, pp. 65-89. Comptes-rendus - H.L.L. Busard, Campanus of Novara and Euclid's Elements, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag 2005, in : Nuncius 22 (2007), pp. 139-140. - J. Evans, J.L. Berggren (éds.), Geminos’s Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study (...) .. (shrink)

Fabio Acerbi- « Euclid’s Pseudaria », Archive for History of Exact Sciences 62 (2008), pp. 511-551. - « Conjunction and Disjunction in Euclid’s Elements », Histoire, Épistémologie, Langage, 30, 2008, pp., 21-47. - Entrées : « Apollonius of Perga », « Archimedes », « Damianus of Larissa », « Hero of Alexandria », « Hypatia », in : N. Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Detroit, Ch. Scribner's Sons, 2008, vol. I, pp. 83-85 ; 85-91 ; 233-234 ; 283-286 (...) ; 435-437. - « The meanin.. (shrink)

Fabio Acerbi - Il silenzio delle sirene. La matematica greca antica, Roma, Carocci 2010, 448 p. - « Homeomeric Lines in Greek Mathematics », Science in Context 23 (2010), p. 1-37. - « Two Approaches to Foundations in Greek Mathematics: Apollonius and Geminus », Science in Context 23 (2010), p. 151-186. - [avec N. Vinel, B. Vitral], « Les Prolégomènes à l’Almageste. Une édition à partir des manuscrits les plus anciens : Introduction générale, Parties I-III », SCIAMVS 11 (2010), p. (...) 53-210. - « .. (shrink)

Fabio Acerbi Diofanto, “De polygonis numeris”. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione italiana e commento di F. Acerbi», Pisa, Roma, Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2011. 252 p. Dany Amiot - [avec Dejan Stosic], « Sautiller, voleter, dansoter : évaluation, pluriactionnalité, aspect », Temps, aspect et classes de mots : études théoriques et didactiques. Actes du septième colloque international de linguistique française et roumaine, E. Arjoca-Ieremia, C. Avezard-Roger, J. Goes, E. Moline & A. Tih..

Bosse-de-Nage, singe papion Ha ha. Alfred Jarry, Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (1898), II, x, et passim. Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, savant humain L’homme rend par un signe extérieur ce qui se passe au-dedans de lui, il communique sa pensée par la parole, ce signe est commun à toute l’espèce humaine, l’homme sauvage parle comme l’homme policé, & tous deux parlent naturellement, & parlent pour se faire entendre : aucun des Animaux n’a ce signe de la pensée, ce (...) n’e.. (shrink)

Originally published between 1955 and 1981 the volumes in this mini-set include works by G E von Grünebaum, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, F Rahman, and A J Wensinck. Examining the nature and growth of the cultural tradition of Islam, the volumes in this set cover Islamic life and thought, the role of the Prophet, prophecy in Islam, the Crusades and problems of the twentieth century Arab world.

La composition de l'Odyssée Ce séminaire a repris le problème de la composition de l'Odyssée. Après avoir fait le point sur la critique homérique et analysé les apports essentiels fournis par les études qui se sont intéressées aux codes narratifs mis en œuvre par les traditions de poésie orale, ont été discutés des éléments du poème que la critique a souvent eu tendance à considérer comme superficiellement rattaché à l'ensemble : l'Orestie (rapport entre chants XI et XXIV), les récits de (...) l'in.. (shrink)

Frédérique Bisiaux, Philosophie de la relation maternelle, de l'ontologie à la politique. Thèse soutenue le 7 décembre 2011 à l’Université Lille 3. Composition du jury Fabienne Brugère, Professeur à l'Université de Bordeaux 3 Philippe Sabot, Maître de conférences HDR à l'Université Lille 3 François David Sebbah, Professeur à l’Université de technologie de Compiègne Nathalie Zaccaï-Reyners, Professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles Frédéric Worms, Professeur à l’Université de Lille 3, Direc..

Carlitria Bordigoni, Elementi formulari nella dizione eschilea Thèse soutenue le 21 mars 2006 à l'Université de Trente (dans le cadre du Doctorat internationale Lille-Trente). Composition du jury : M. Pierre Judet de La Combe (CNRS/EHESS) M. Enrico Medda (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) MmePatrizia Mureddu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) M. Luigi Enrico Rossi (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") M. Philippe Rousseau (Université de Lille 3) Hervé Vautrelle, Figures et système..

Gérard Journée, « Rien ne saurait naître de rien ». L’émergence du problème de l’être dans la philosophie préplatonicienne.Thèse soutenue le 26 janvier 2007 Composition du jury : Michel Crubellier, Professeur à l'Université de Lille 3. François De Gandt, Professeur à l'Université de Lille 3. Paul Demont, Professeur à l'Université de Paris IV. Pierre-Marie Morel, Professeur à l'Université de Paris I. Malcolm Schofield, Professeur à l'Université de Cambridge. André Laks, Professeur à l'Univer..

Andrea Vestrucci, Sujet moral et Sittlichkeit : la théorie de la morale de Agnès Heller. Une comparaison avec Eric Weil. Thèse soutenue le 28 janvier 2009 à l’Université de Milan. Composition du jury Maria Cristina Bartolomei, Professeur à l'Université de Milan, co-directrice de thèse Michel Crubellier, Professeur à l'Université de Lille 3 Marco Ravera, Professeur à l'Université de Turin Patrice Canivez, Professeur à l'Université de Lille 3, co-directeur de thèse Nathalie Rubel, Sexe et laï..

Juan Redmond, Logique Dynamique de la Fiction. Pour une Approche Dialogique Thèse soutenue le 3 juillet 2010 à l’Université de Lille 3. Composition du jury Norah dei Cas, Université de Lille 3 Jacques Dubucs, Université de Paris-I Gerhard Heinzmann, Université de Nancy Paul Gochet, Université de de Liège John Woods, University of British Columbia Shahid Rahman, Université de Lille 3, directeur de thèse. Résumé Cette thèse porte sur l’élaboration d’une structure argumentative dynamique dans le..

Cécile Conduché, Les exemples grecs des Institutions grammaticales de Priscien, héritages et doctrines Thèse soutenue le 13 octobre 2012 à l’Université Lille 3 Composition du jury Jean-Christophe Jolivet, Professeur à l’Université de Lille 3 Guillaume Bonnet, Professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne Jean Schneider, Professeur à l’Université de Lyon 2 Marc Baratin, Professeur à l’Université de Lille 3, Directeur de thèse Gweltaz Guyomarc’h, Aux origines de la métaphysique : l’interprétation par ..