E. Lesky, A. Wandruska, G. Van Swieten und seine Zeit (Wien 1973), 194 p.,

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Limited Excavations at the Gassaway-Feldmeyer House, 18AP49, 194 Prince George Street, Annapolis, Maryland

194 Prince George Street, known as the Gassaway-Feldmeyer house, was excavated in April of 1988. The property, in residential use from the 19th century, is owned by Historic Annapolis Foundation. Excavators found evidence of some intact 19th century levels and no trace of the 18th century. Unfortunately, parts of the site were disturbed by 20th century gardening activities. Further excavation is recommended since the Gassaway-Feldmeyer house may provide valuable information about residences in the 19th century.

FLUTE MUSIC FROM THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY BY THREE FRENCH COMPOSERS: JEAN-MICHEL DAMASE, ANDRE JOLIVET, AND HENRI TOMASI

Jean-Michel Damase (b.1928), Andre Jolivet (1905-1974), and Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) are three prominent French composers ofthe twentieth century. Tomasi won the Prix de Rome in 1927, and Damase won the Prix de Rome in 1947. All three composers were educated and lived in Paris around the same period; however, their musical styles are quite distinct. Most of Jolivet's compositions for flute are well known and are often selected as international competition repertoire. The compositions for flute by Damase and Tomasi are not as recognized as those of Jolivet, and most of their works for flute still have not been commercially recorded. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a more comprehensive guide to the compositions for flute by Damase, Jolivet and Tomasi, and, in addition, to make the works ofDamase and Tomasi familiar to flutists. This dissertation will focus on the compositions ofDamase, Jolivet, and Tomasi for flute alone and those for flute and piano, written between 1928 and 1971 (1928 is the year Damase was born, and 1971 is the year that Tomasi died). Damase continues French romanticism, and his music is always playful, elegant, and accessible with rhythmic and harmonic surprises, but with an underlying complexity. His compositions for flute include three concertos, two double concertos, one flute solo work, and nine works for flute and piano. Jolivet's compositions make use of ancient rituals, incantations, and spirituality, as well as repeated phrases and single notes, irregular rhythmic patterns, dissonant effects, and rhythmic drive. He composed one flute concerto, three works for flute solo, and four works for flute and piano. Tomasi's compositions also continue French romanticism and contain melodies which often seem to tell a story, and which are not only full of flourishes and vitality, but are also delicate, colorful, and romantic. Virtuosic technical demand is another characteristic of his style. Tomasi composed three flute concertos, three works for solo flute, and one work for flute and piano. Appendix I is a list of the compositions for flute by Damase, Jolivet, and Tomasi, and Appendix II is a discography of their works.

The phenomenology of religious life: Nietzsche and Bergson

In this paper I identify and discuss some themes in the thought of Nietzsche and Bergson respectively as these bear upon the wider project to which the paper contributes – the articulation of a philosophical naturalism which offers a non-reductive account of the origin and nature of religion on the basis that the real is 'religious' in essence. Implicitly, an alternative is thereby proposed to the approaches and presuppositions of the 'theological turn' perspective within contemporary 'continental philosophy of religion'. [PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR]

The Paradox of art criticism: Jacques Derrida in front of the Greco, Henri Michaux before René Magritte

This paper analyzes the rethinking of art criticism during French post-structuralism and deconstruction in the second half of the XX century. From Michel Foucault to Gilles Deleuze, from Jacques Derrida to Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, the article develops several conceptions and functions of art criticism by means of paradox, paying special attention to Henri Michaux’s essay on René Magritte En rêvant à partir de peintures énigmatiques [Dreams like Enigmatic Paintings].

Beyond the Sign. Henri Meschonnic's Poetics of Rhythm and Continuum. Towards an Anthropological Theory of Language

Basing the conception of language on the sign represents also an obstacle to the awareness of certain elements of human life, especially to a full understanding of what language or art do, Henri Meschonnic’s poetics of the continuum and of rhythm criticizes the sign based on Benveniste’s terms of rhythm and discourse, developing an anthropology of language. Rhythm, for Meschonnic, is no formal metrical but a semantic principle, each time unique and unforeseeable. As for Humboldt, his starting point is not the word but the ensemble of speech; language is not ergon but energeia. The poem then is not a literary form but a process of transformation that Meschonnic defines as the invention of a form of life by a form of language and vice versa. Thus a poem is a way of thinking and rhythm is form in movement. The particular subject of art and literature is consequently not the author but a process of subjectivation – this is the contrary of the conception of the sign. By demonstrating the limits of the sign, Meschonnic’s poetics attempts to thematize the intelligibility of presence. Art and literature raise our awareness of this element of human life we cannot grasp conceptually. This poetical thinking is a necessary counterforce against all institutionalization.

Missions and Institutions: Henri-Philippe Junod, Anthropology, Human Rights and Academia between Africa and Switzerland, 1921–1966

Drawing on a cultural, transnational and genealogical approach, this article studies the work of a Swiss missionary, Henri-Philippe Junod, between Europe and Africa. It tries not to look at what he brought to Africa, or brought back from Africa, but to see how his back-and-forth movement contributed to the formation of new ideas and institutions globally. The article looks at Junod’s contribution in three domains in particular, namely anthropology, human rights worldwide, and African studies in Switzerland.

Recension de "Revenu minimum garanti : comparaison internationale, analyses et débats’ par Lionel-Henri Groulx"

"La lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale est un enjeu qui hante constamment les débats politiques des pays occidentaux. L’ensemble des acteurs publics déplorent que, dans nos sociétés d’opulence, certains n’aient ni le minimum pour vivre ni la capacité d’exercer leurs droits sociaux. Dans son livre, Louis-Henri Groulx s’intéresse à une des stratégies pour lutter contre la pauvreté : le revenu minimum garanti. [...]"

Filosofia do Cinema: Processos de Criação de uma Nova Imagem do Pensamento

A presente dissertação analisa a relação entre filosofia e cinema segundo o ponto de vista deleuziano da criação de uma nova imagem do pensamento, crítica à imagem dogmática clássica. Com o objectivo de analisar as considerações filosóficas de Gilles Deleuze sobre o cinema de A Imagem-movimento (1983) e A Imagem-tempo (1985), tendo como ponto de partida o movimento reversível entre cinema e filosofia, defendemos a hipótese de o cinema ter uma função filosófica definida no seu pensamento quando relacionado com um sistema filosófico já fundamentado, circunscrito a Diferença e Repetição (1968). Baseando-se na semiótica de Charles S. Peirce e na ontologia materialista de Henri Bergson, Deleuze cria os conceitos filosóficos de imagem-movimento e de imagem-tempo a partir da materialidade das imagens cinematográficas e segundo uma crítica da tradição filosófica relativamente aos estudos sobre o movimento. Deleuze defende a primazia da dimensão temporal; uma concepção de Tempo não decalcado da dimensão espacial; e uma ideia de consciência como algo que está no tempo. Esta reavaliação culmina no conceito de imagem-cristal, o elemento noo-onto-cinematográfico da sua filosofia-cinema. Assim, a questão sobre o que é o cinema leva-nos a uma outra sobre o que é a filosofia. Que tipos de interferências ocorrem entre cinema e filosofia? A filosofia definida como criação conceptual é o fio condutor para a análise de duas ligações que julgamos essenciais e objecto de alguns equívocos: por um lado, a relação entre cinema e filosofia e, por outro, entre filosofar e pensar. Prosseguindo a questão heideggeriana sobre o que nos faz pensar, localizamos no não-filosófico a “origem” não essencialista da própria filosofia: a partir de um encontro paradoxalmente acidental e necessário, que tem no cinema a correspondência imagem-pensamento e imagem-movimento. Este movimento reversível entre imagens cinematográficas e conceitos filosóficos exige uma revisão do platonismo e da concepção da relação entre imagem e pensamento, bem como uma refutação da analogia entre mente e cinema. Segundo esta analogia, o cinema é compreendido como uma cópia dos processos mentais na sua função de passividade, inércia e manipulação. A reacção a este automatismo espiritual corresponderá, paralelamente, a uma luta contra o cliché da imagem e o fascismo da imagem dogmática. Deste modo, a noologia deleuziana estabelece uma nova imagem do pensamento enquanto nova teoria da imagem, da qual sobressaem dois elementos distintos: a intervenção do não-filosófico como impoder e o domínio de uma lógica paradoxal da síntese disjuntiva. Deste modo, a presente dissertação esclarece alguns dos equívocos estabelecidos relativamente à identidade entre o cinema e a filosofia, nomeadamente a ideia que predomina numa certa tendência da filosofia do cinema hoje, de que o cinema filosofa. Isto é, defendo que o cinema tem a capacidade de nos dar os imprescindíveis elementos não-filosóficos que nos fazem pensar e que o cinema tem um papel prático na criação conceptual, sugerindo assim uma afinidade entre imagem cinematográfica e conceito filosófico que se traduz na expressão filosófica de pensar o cinema pelo cinema.