...Aurelie Renaud Andrea Goulet . Optiques. The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2006 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Book Reviews Andrea Goulet. Optiques...

...Anna More Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Anna More THINKING WITH THE INQUISITION: HERETICAL SCIENCE AND POPULAR KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Digo, que entre los libros de mi uso matemdtico, fil6logos, humanistas y otros diferentes, hay algunos que...

..., qui s attachent à ce même corps. Enfin, Monique Wittig déplace l énonciation du plaisir, ouvre le passage à la jouissance de l écriture. Tel est le kaléidoscope à travers lequel j ai reconstitué mon enfance . . . École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees...

... of works and commentaries by the physicians Archimattheus, Gilles of Corbeil, and Gentile da Foligno. In captationes benevolentiae styled after Ciceronian precepts, these authors attack their rivals before presenting their own superior science. Their scurrilous invectives—“Hoc salernitani cacantes...

... several features typical of realism. The presence of details describing the natural and social environment is linked to how the “Promenade” centers his scientific attention to plant life on the island. That fact points to the deep epistemological connection between science and realism. Rousseau’s text...

.... Even further, for Certeau, as for Michel Foucault, human sciences should be called "heterologic knowledge." I prefer to call it heterodox knowledge, knowledge whose purpose is to alter orthodoxy itself. The title of Certeau's most recently published anthologyThe Place of the Other-makes this explicit...

... more pragmatic social science departments. The stakes couldn’t be higher, concerning as they do the continued existence of the humanities writ large and French and Francophone studies more specifically. However, we need to stop consenting to the now explicit and widespread framing of a liberal arts...

...-1757). First perpetual secretary to the Academie des Sciences (and its first public relations director) and author of treatises on vortices, the geometry of infinity, and the number nine, Fontenelle also wrote works appealing to a more worldly audience. These are equally heterogeneous: from the newly...

... "The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man," held at Johns Hopkins University on October 18-21, 1966. What kind of parallel may be drawn between these two events, other than the fact that attendance at either one turned out to be groovy? As Stanley Fish lyrically put it, "Those who were able to catch...

... inspires par des ecrits proprement economiques, auxquels il faudrait ajouter les notes prises sur les systemes socialistes. D'ailleurs, il existe probablement une difference considerable entre la visibilite de la « science nouvelle» a l'epoque ou Stendhal depouille Say, Smith et Malthus - ou meme au moment...

... facultes, et la poesie la plus exacte des sciences". BAUDELAIRE Le livre de Sydney Levy sur Ponge illustre de fa~on exemplaire une approche aqui commence se developper dans l'anayse des textes poetiques. Ce qu'il pro- pose en effet est original par rapport aux methodes qui dominent depuis longtemps ce...

..., Performance in the Texts of Mallanne : The Passage from Art to Ritual (University Park: Penn State Press, 1993), and "Apocalypse et modernisme : Ie Livre de la fin" in Le Livre Total, eds. A. Buisine & V. Kaufmann, Revue des Sciences Humaines, No. 235, 1994, pp.35-46. 4. Mallarme, CEuvres completes, ed. H...

... that Structuralism should be reappraised and presented in a more global context uniting various discourses, from anthropology to semiotics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, that all come under the heading of the "human sciences"-in fact, the whole spectrum of what Giambattista Vico had in mind when...

..., as a source of cognitive certainty, thereby giving metaphorical identity to the intellectual revolution his philosophy was to help bring about (Reichardt 104-105).2 The second text I will examine, Rousseau's Discours sur les sciences et les arts, was published over a century later, in 1750, a date by which...

...Gerald Prince Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Gerald Prince RESPONSE TO ELENA RUSSO Elena Russo's discussion of the Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man covers so much ground and covers it so well that I have little to add to it.1 In particular, I admire...

... and science per se. T­ hese stakes inform the following pages, which adopt the notion that Bacon departs on purpose from Montaigne s model. I claim that in order to reinvent the genre as a scientific instrument, the Essayes suppress the infinite implications of the Essais through a shift in attitude t­oward...

...). Flaubert ecrit notamment, en exploitant Ie rapport d'analogie precedemment decrit: "Ie monde etait farce. Et ill'a tourne en farce". En finissant ce petit essai, Flaubert proposait de "creuser" l'reuvre de Rabelais dans sa totalite, et parlait du "tourbillon" de l'explosion des sciences au dix-neuvieme...

... Leonard Bloomfield’s views of language. Bloomfield, by contrast, was an adept of behaviorism. Just as Francis Bacon did for science centuries before, Bloomfield ( Language ) called for a strictly empirical, mechanist, linguistics that should stop relying on invisible, mental meaning and study instead...

... the pride and vanity of their constructions. Of the confusion caused by God's introduction of multiple tongues, Montaigne writes: "Qu'est-ce autre chose que cette infinie et perpetuelle altercation et discordance d'opinions et de raisons qui accompaigne et embrouille Ie vain bastiment de l'humaine science...

... of applications for research in the Maghreb. The first surprising fact is the quasi-absence of scholars in our discipline, compared to colleagues in the other areas within the humanities and social sciences. The very few applications are limited to literature and mostly use a very traditional approach...