Tree-ringbased drought reconstruction (a.d. 1855-2001) for the Qilian mountains；northwestern China

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Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890 : embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. : with sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries : wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days / by Peter Ronan.

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Echoes of existentialism in the works of Carlos Fuentes

In this thesis I have set out to trace the echoes of existentialism in the work of the Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes scrutinizing, in particular, La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Cambio de piel. In the opening segment of the thesis I outline the essential tenets of existentialist thought and how it became the predominant philosophical and literary movement of the early part of the twentieth-century. Stemming from the work of Sören Kierkegaard in Denmark towards the end of the nineteenth-century, it challenged the arid philosophies of previous generations and provided a new way of looking at man and the human condition. In this opening chapter, I study the works of the more important philosophers in this regard such as Heidegger, Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Unamuno, and Ortega y Gasset and show how each in his own way contributed to the further development of the new philosophy. Chapter 2 is concerned with the spread of existentialism to the Latin American continent. In the early part of the twentieth-century, Mexico was emerging from a turbulent revolutionary period and seeking a solution to the fractured nature of its society. The Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset, and the many Spanish intellectuals who sought refuge from Franco’s dictatorship in Mexico, helped to popularise the new philosophy and these lively debates about existentialism served to underpin ideas around mexicanidad or Mexican national identity. Carlos Fuentes was deeply immersed in the debate of his time, positioned as he was as a prominent public intellectual. In La muerte de Artemio Cruz he shows us how great wealth and power are a poor recompense for the loss of love and compassion and lead only to alienation and selfishness. In his other best known novel, La región más transparente, he explores the rise of modern Mexico and its society – an inauthentic society that is corrupted by a scramble for wealth and self-aggrandizement. The final chapter is devoted to the study of Cambio de piel which is concerned with violence and alienation as central pillars of existence. The violence depicted here precipitates a crisis in the human condition and an accompanying sense of alienation. The thesis seeks to establish that existentialism is central not only to Fuentes’s literary concerns but also forms a part of his ethics as an artist.

A vida como alternativa e a possibilidade de uma “doença para a morte” segundo Kierkegaard

A ideia de que a vida tem uma forma de alternativa e de que, por isso, requer sempre uma decisão é consensual nas interpretações de Kierkegaard. Um labirinto é, porém, o modo como se encara essa forma. É o acontecimento do homem neutro face às diferentes possibilidades ou há alguma que lhe seja própria? Se há neutralidade, parece então que não há comensurabilidade entre as possibilidades, e sim apenas diferentes desfechos cuja escolha é igualmente legítima. Se, pelo contrário, há alguma possibilidade que seja própria ao homem, tal parece entrar em colisão com o ponto assente de que o acontecimento humano admite alternativas. O que nos ocupará será, numa primeira instância, defender que a primeira leitura não corresponde à proposta de Kierkegaard; depois, e a partir da segunda leitura, evitar a colisão que se avista através do auxílio do conceito de “doença para a morte”. Ou seja, perceber de que modo esse conceito corresponde à possibilidade de articulação de uma noção de um desfecho próprio ao homem — algo como uma exigência — e de uma forma de vida como aut–aut .

La Cène ou la figure du banquet comme image de crise morale chez Zeng Fanzhi

Les yeux et les masques sont prévalents dans les oeuvres du peintre chinois contemporain Zeng Fanzhi (né en 1964), comme métaphore du jeu de pouvoir qui oppose les individus à l’appareil social et politique. Son oeuvre La Cène, d’après Leonard de Vinci, est un exemple frappant de cette préoccupation. Cet essai examine l’utilisation par l’artiste de cette représentation occidentale d’une crise morale (une trahison qui mène à la mort du Christ) pour exprimer la dystopie qui marque la Chine contemporaine. L’interprétation par Zeng de l’oeuvre de Vinci témoigne d’une compréhension profonde de sa signification à la Renaissance comme conflit entre le pouvoir terrestre et spirituel, auquel il surimpose la fonction du banquet dans la culture chinoise comme lieu de lutte politique. Un nihilisme détaché imprègne ce travail, à l’instar de l’interprétation métaphorique du banquet de Platon par Søren Kierkegaard, In Vino Veritas.

Revue photographique (Paris. 1855)

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