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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 1446133184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: J. Thanh Van Tran
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN: 9782863321584
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004433570
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Matthijs ENGELBERTS: Avant-Propos/Introduction -- John PILLING: Beckett and "The Itch to Make": The Early Poems in English -- Thomas HUNKELER: "Cascando" de Samuel Beckett -- Mary Ann CAWS: Samuel Beckett Translating -- Mary LYDON: Beyond the Criterion of Genre: Samuel Beckett's Ars Poetica -- Jean-Michel RABETÉ: Beckett et la poesie de la zone: (Dante.Apollinaire. Céline.Lévi) -- Christophe WALL-ROMANA: Beckett au parloir: Poétique du transvoisement -- Michael STEWART: The Unnamable Mirror: The Reflective Identity in Beckett's Prose -- Yann MÉVEL: Molloy : Jeux et enjeux d'un savoir mélancolique -- H. PORTER ABBOTT: Beckett's Lawlessness: Evolutionary Psychology and Genre -- Catherine LAWS: Performance Issues in Composer's Approaches to Beckett -- Emmanuel JACQUART: Beckett et la forme sonate -- Wilma SICCAMA: Beckett's Many Voices: Authorial Control and the Play of Repetition -- N.F. LÖWE: Sam's Love for Sam: Samuel Beckett, Dr. Johnson and Human Wishes -- Bruce ARNOLD: From Proof to Print: Anthony Cronin's Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist Reconsidered.

Author: R Balian
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814531898
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Contents: Percolation and Localization (D J Thouless)Disordered Systems — Experimental Viewpoint (J Joffrin)Lectures on Amorphous Systems (P W Anderson)Elementary Algebraic Topology Related to the Theory of Defects and Textures (V Poenaru)Models of Disordered Materials (S Kirkpatrick)Thermal and Geometrical Critical Phenomena in Random Systems (T C Lukensky)A Short Guide to Polymer Physics (P-G de Gennes)and 9 seminars Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004456155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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This collection of essays explores the significance of modern chaos theory as a new paradigm in literary studies and argues for the usefulness of borrowings from one discipline to another. Its thesis is that external reality is real and is not merely a social construct. On the other hand, this volume reflects the belief that literature, as a social and cultural construct, is not unrelated to that external reality. The authors represented here furthermore believe that learning to communicate across disciplinary divides is worth the risk of looking silly to purists and dogmatists. In applying a contemporary scientific grid to a by-gone era, the authors play out Steven Weinberg's exhortation to mind the clues to the past that cannot be obtained in any other way. It is of course necessary to get the science right, yet the essays in this collection do not seek to do science, but rather to suggest that science and literature often share common assumptions and realities. Thus there is no attempt to legitimize literary study through the adoption of a scientific approach. Interaction between the disciplines requires mutual respect and a willingness to investigate the broader implications of scientific research. Consequently, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the long eighteenth century whether the focus is on England (Locke, Milton, Radcliffe, Lewis), France (Crébillion, Diderot, Marivaux, Montesquieu) or Germany (Kant, Moritz, Goethe, Fr. Schlegel). Moreover, given its multiple thrust in employing mythological, philosophical, and scientific notions of chaos, this volume will appeal to historians and philosophers of the European Enlightenment as well as to literary historians. The volume ultimately aspires to promote communication across centuries and across disciplines.

Author: Pascal Mueller-Jourdan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004210083
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The problem of the Materia Prima is certainly one of the most important challenges of late antique Physics. It is interesting to note that such a difficulty has never been focused on an exhaustive treatise in Antiquity. If the question of the matter resists any investigation, it is because the matter is radically 'aneideos' (without form) even though it is the condition 'sine qua non' of the existence of all forms in the sensible world. The present study proposes the first translation in French of the entire eleventh Book of the Philoponus' Contra Proclum (VIe s.) which precisely discusses the status of the Prime Matter. After having clarified the context of such a question in the Neoplatonic Alexandrian School, it puts forward a detailled step-to-step analysis of the Philoponian argument, the notions used by him and a new general theory which attempts to evaluate the pertinence and the internal coherence of his contribution to this very problematic question. Le problème de la Materia Prima est sans aucun doute l'une des questions les plus redoutables de la physique tardo-antique. Du moins s'il faut en croire la difficulté à en circonscrire la théorie dans un traité qui put faire école. Si la matière, en effet, résiste à toute investigation rationnelle c'est qu'elle est foncièrement sans forme bien qu'elle soit la condition sine qua non d'existence de toutes les formes du monde sensible. La présente étude propose la première traduction en Français du Livre XI du Contra Proclum de Jean Philopon (VIe s.). Elle commence par recontextualiser le propos de Philopon en l'inscrivant dans la tradition de la 'Quaestio disputata' de l'Ecole néoplatonicienne d'Alexandrie. Chaque sous-chapitre traduit et exhaustivement annoté est suivi d'une analyse détaillée de l'argument philoponien et des notions mobilisées, ainsi que d'une théorie générale qui essayera à chaque fois d'évaluer la cohérence et la pertinence du propos du grammairien alexandrin.

Author: A. Albert
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9789051992144
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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This publication reflects on the discussion on using chaos theory for the study of society. It explores the interface between chaos theory and the social sciences. A broad variety of fields (including Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Management, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) is represented in the book. The leading themes are: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Social Connectionism and the Connectionist Mind, Social Institutions and Public Policy, and Social Simulations. The book includes the following topics: the relevance of the complexity-chaos paradigm for analyzing social systems, the usefulness of nonlinear dynamics for studying the formation and sustainability of social groups, the comparison between spontaneous social orders and spontaneous biological/natural orders, the building of Artificial Societies, and the contribution of the chaos paradigm to a better understanding and formulation of public policies.

Author: Pieter d’Hoine
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058679705
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 809

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Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of late Antiquity (Plotinus, Proclus, Simplicius), and thirteenth-century scholasticism (Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent). They do not only represent key moments in the intellectual history of the West, but are also the central figures and periods to which Carlos Steel, the dedicatary of this volume, has devoted his philosophical career.

Author: Hildegard Temporini
Publisher:
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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