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Dans la forêt du miroir: essais sur les mots et sur le monde
Par Alberto Manguel. 2000
Avec l'Alice de Lewis Carroll pour guide, l'auteur d'Une histoire de la lecture explore la nature du lien qui s'établit…
entre le monde et les mots que nous choisissons pour le nommer. Un voyage au coeur subversif du langage. Prix France Culture étranger 2001.Hasard et chaos
Par David Ruelle. 1991
Si le hasard a ses raisons, il a aussi une raison. L'auteur, mathématicien, un des fondateurs de la théorie moderne…
du chaos, étudie celle-ci dans cet essai, véritable promenade à travers la physique et les mathématiques.Examines a range of perspectives and opinions on topics related to the end of life. Presents opposing outlooks on such…
issues as physician-assisted suicide, near-death experiences, and grief. Challenges readers to confront and understand conflicting points of view. For senior high and older readers. 1998Katakis defines stewardship as a way of seeing, thinking, and acting on this planet with underpinnings of honor, duty, and…
courage. Reflecting this idea are essays by thirty authors, including Wendell Berry, Gerald Vizenor, and Gary Paul Nabhan. In her contribution, Mary Catherine Bateson discusses the integral part death plays in both forests and families. Some strong languageEssays illustrating the need for humans to learn to live in an environmentally sensitive manner. By authors such as Edward…
Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Onondaga chief Oren Lyons, the essays are grouped in three sections. The first depicts the current state of nature, the second describes the impact of growth-driven economics and overpopulation, and the third offers some possible solutionsLa société de provocation: essai sur l'obscénité des riches (Lettres libres)
Par Dahlia Namian. 2023
Bernés par les prestidigitations des ultrariches, nous regardons ceux-ci, stupéfaits, dilapider les ressources de la planète. Dans son roman Chien…
blanc, Romain Gary appelle "société de provocation" cet ordre social où l'exhibitionnisme de la richesse érige en vertu la démesure et le luxe ostentatoire tout en privant une part de plus en plus large de la population des moyens de satisfaire ses besoins réels. Ce pamphlet cinglant énumère et analyse les mille façons qu'ont les ultrariches de nous nuire, et invite à rompre avec cette société de provocationL'art comme expérience (Folio essais #534)
Par John Dewey. 2005
Textes issus d'un cycle de conférences données en 1931 à Harvard, dans lesquelles le philosophe proposait une vision de l'art…
adaptée aux sociétés démocratiques et libérées des mythes qui en voilent généralement la nature et l'importanceFirst for Women is a women's interest magazine that gives its readers the tools and inspiration they need to feel…
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