DOCSLIB.ORG

Lignes, an Intellectual Revue: Twenty-Five Years of Politics, Philosophy, Art and Literature

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Lignes, an Intellectual Revue: Twenty-Five Years of Politics, Philosophy, Art and Literature Lignes, an Intellectual Revue: Twenty-Five Years of Politics, Philosophy, Art and Literature Adrian May University of Cambridge Clare Hall Supervisor: Martin Crowley Submitted: September 2014 This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration except where specifically indicated in the text. The dissertation does not exceed the word limit set by the Degree Committee. Word count: 79,987 2 Acknowledgements Martin Crowley has been an invaluable supervisor, both for his unflagging attention and empathy alongside an uncompromising integrity and critical insight. Sincere thanks also to Michel Surya for his time and indulgence in the project, and Lisa Jeschke for proof-reading the manuscript. Emma Wilson and Ian James have provided constant and generous support and inspiration and, alongside Martin, form the intellectual heart of a vibrant and engaging French Department at Cambridge of which it has been a pleasure to be member. This thesis would not have occurred, or in any case not taken the same form, without the previous help and input of Simon Swift, Timothy Mathews and Patrick ffrench. Whilst taking a circuitous route towards this eventual doctorate, these three provided the first academic models to follow. It is easy to forget the ease provided by an AHRC doctoral award to be able to immerse oneself in such work without financial concerns: it has been a rare and appreciated three years. Many friends and colleagues at the University of Leeds, University College London and Cambridge have ensured that academia has consistently proved to be more of a pleasure than a pain: to those, then. Above all, my gratitude to my Mother is constant, for raising me single-handedly alongside two siblings who have since become friends. 3 Thesis title – Lignes, an Intellectual Revue: Twenty-Five years of Philosophy, Politics, Art and Literature Author – Adrian May Institution – The University of Cambridge, Modern and Medieval Languages Supervisor – Dr. Martin Crowley Abstract The thesis takes the French revue Lignes (1987-present) as its object of study to provide a new account of French intellectual culture over the last twenty-five years. Whilst there are now many studies covering the role of such revues throughout the twentieth-century, the majority of such monographs extend no further than the mid-1980s: the major novelty of this thesis is extending these accounts up until the present moment. It is largely assumed that a reaction against the Marxist and structuralist theories of the 1960s and 1970s led to embrace of liberalism and an intellectual drift to the right in France from the 1980s onwards: whilst largely supporting this account, the thesis attempts to nuance this narrative of the fate of the intellectual left in the following years by showing the persistence of what can be called a politicised ‘French theory’ in Lignes, and a returning left-wing militancy in recent years. In doing so, it will both reveal under-studied aspects of well-known thinkers, such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, as their thought develops through their participation in a collaborative, periodical publication, and introduce lesser known thinkers who have not received an extended readership in Anglophone spheres. Lignes also argues for the continued persistence and relevance of the thought of a previous generation of thinkers, notably Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Dionys Mascolo, and the thesis concludes by examining the potential role ‘French Theory’ could still have in France. Furthermore, as revues provide a unique nexus of intellectual, cultural, social and political concerns, the thesis also provides a unique history of France from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 2007 financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Much of the thesis is concerned with contextualising intellectual debates within a period characterised by the moralisation of discourses, a return of religion, the global installation of neo-liberalism and the eruption of immigration as a controversial European issue. From a relatively theoretical and politically stable position to the left of the Parti socialiste, Lignes therefore provides a privileged vantage point for the mutations in French social and cultural life throughout the period. 4 Contents Introduction Lignes: An Intellectual Revue after the Death of both Intellectuals and Revues …8 Intellectuals and Revues – A Mutual History …9 Approaches to the Revue Form …15 Chapter Plan …18 Lignages: Political, Intellectual, Literary Chapter 1 Lignes and the 1930s: Fascism, Anti-parliamentarianism and the Political …22 The 1980s – Les années d’hiver …23 The Obsession with French Fascism …25 Maurice Blanchot: The Silent Politics of Friendship …27 Blanchot in the 1930s: la surenchère journalistique? …30 Bataille in the 1930s: Sacred Sociology …36 Jean-Luc Nancy and the Political …44 A Muted Anti-parliamentarianism …46 Chapter 2 Lignes and the 1960s: Intellectual Friendship, Cultural Politics and Literature …49 Antelme: Humanity, Solidarity, Friendship …49 La Rue Saint-Benoît …51 Le refus anonyme …53 Plural Speech …57 Theory as Material Force …62 Transgression from Tel Quel to Lignes …65 Le communisme de pensée …70 5 Lignes, the First Series: 1987-1999 Chapter 3 Impure Atheists, Opaque Intellectuals …76 Impure Enlightenment …77 Aggressive Irréligion? …83 Interlude – An Alternative Cultural Politics …86 Immorality …88 Impur/Impropre …93 Le capital, la transparence et les affaires …97 Chapter 4 Immigration and angélisme …105 Pierre-André Taguieff and Neo-racism …105 National-Republicanism …108 Étienne Balibar – Race, nation, classe …110 Négationnisme and Censorship …113 The Heritage of Anti-fascism …115 Turning on the Electoral Left …120 Lignes and the New Social Movements …123 Responsabilisation or Intellectual Suicide? …130 Lignes, the Second Series: 2000-2014 Chapter 5 Rebuilding Camps, Reconstructing Agency …134 Securitisation …134 David Rousset – The Universalisation of the Concentrationary …137 Exceptional Legality: Rebuilding Camps …141 Jacques Rancière and the sans-papiers …146 Alain Badiou – Political Subjects and Political Organisations …153 6 Chapter 6 Spectacular Domination: Art and Neoliberalism in Crisis …162 Pasolini and the Exhaustion of the Artistic Critique …162 Structural Alienation: Guy Debord, marxiste …167 Contemporary Art in Crisis – Mass Culture and the Institutions …171 Political and Ethical Art in Context …177 Theorising the Financial Crisis …181 The Social Creation of Political Culture …185 Conclusion Revues, French Theory and Identity Politics into the Twenty-First Century …190 Postcolonial Theory – (Cultural) Politics …192 Identités indécises …195 The Badiou Controversy: Universal vs Strategic Essentialism …197 Essentialism with a Vengeance: Parity and PACS …202 Bibliography …207 7 Introduction Lignes: An Intellectual Revue after the Death of both Intellectuals and Revues “Paris is today the capital of European intellectual reaction” (Anderson 1983: 32): such was Perry Anderson’s verdict in 1983, as Mitterrand’s Parti socialiste (PS) consecrated its shift to neo-liberal economics, Max Gallo lamented the silence of the intellectuals, and Tel Quel became L’Infini, signalling the end of “The Time of Theory” (ffrench 1995). The 1980s were subsequently “les années d’hiver” (Guattari 1986) which furnished the “tombeau de l’intellectuel” (Lyotard 1984). Now deceased, intellectuals became objects of academic study, Jean-François Sirinelli forming his Groupe de recherche sur l’histoire des intellectuels in 1985. Removed from their “pedestal and placed beneath the historian’s magnifying glass” intellectuals were “an historical object best viewed with retrospective vision” (Brewer 1997: 18). Symptomatically revues, the intellectuals’ favourite publishing organ, also seemed threatened, organisations such as Ent’revues (1986) and L’Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (1988) being created to preserve their archives and provide financial support. Eulogies for the death of both remained frequent refrains heading into the 1990s. Subsequently, a familiar narrative became established: just as ‘French Theory’ became prevalent in the Anglophone academy, structuralism was subjected to a concerted backlash in France (Cusset 2003); furthermore, chastened by Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, penitent intellectuals abandoned progressive politics for a sober stance as responsible participants in liberal governance. Tony Judt’s “essay on intellectual irresponsibility” is a characteristic account (1992: 11), and is far from inaccurate: however, the ubiquity of this narrative also frequently occludes what happened next. Whilst seminal studies of Tel Quel, Les Temps modernes, and Cahiers pour l’analyse have highlighted the role of revues as crucibles of thought and praxis,1 few accounts venture beyond the 1980s. This is understandable as the main cluster of such studies appeared in the mid-1990s: yet since then, thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Jean-Luc Nancy have been extensively discussed,2 but rarely considered within the wider milieus that revues continue to provide. This is the principal scholarly omission that this thesis seeks to address. Lignes therefore becomes an ideal object of study. This trimestral revue has appeared since 1987, covering art, literature, philosophy and politics. Despite the hostile intellectual 1 See the bibliography for monographs
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Aspects of Black Hole Physics
    Aspects of Black Hole Physics Andreas Vigand Pedersen The Niels Bohr Institute Academic Advisor: Niels Obers e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: This project examines some of the exact solutions to Einstein’s theory, the theory of linearized gravity, the Komar definition of mass and angular momentum in general relativity and some aspects of (four dimen- sional) black hole physics. The project assumes familiarity with the basics of general relativity and differential geometry, but is otherwise intended to be self contained. The project was written as a ”self-study project” under the supervision of Niels Obers in the summer of 2008. Contents Contents ..................................... 1 Contents ..................................... 1 Preface and acknowledgement ......................... 2 Units, conventions and notation ........................ 3 1 Stationary solutions to Einstein’s equation ............ 4 1.1 Introduction .............................. 4 1.2 The Schwarzschild solution ...................... 6 1.3 The Reissner-Nordstr¨om solution .................. 18 1.4 The Kerr solution ........................... 24 1.5 The Kerr-Newman solution ..................... 28 2 Mass, charge and angular momentum (stationary spacetimes) 30 2.1 Introduction .............................. 30 2.2 Linearized Gravity .......................... 30 2.3 The weak field approximation .................... 35 2.3.1 The effect of a mass distribution on spacetime ....... 37 2.3.2 The effect of a charged mass distribution on spacetime .. 39 2.3.3 The effect of a rotating mass distribution on spacetime .. 40 2.4 Conserved currents in general relativity ............... 43 2.4.1 Komar integrals ........................ 49 2.5 Energy conditions ........................... 53 3 Black holes ................................ 57 3.1 Introduction .............................. 57 3.2 Event horizons ............................ 57 3.2.1 The no-hair theorem and Hawking’s area theorem ....
    [Show full text]
  • Legal "Black Hole"? Extraterritorial State Action and International Treaty Law on Civil and Political Rights
    Michigan Journal of International Law Volume 26 Issue 3 2005 Legal "Black Hole"? Extraterritorial State Action and International Treaty Law on Civil and Political Rights Ralph Wilde University of London Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, and the National Security Law Commons Recommended Citation Ralph Wilde, Legal "Black Hole"? Extraterritorial State Action and International Treaty Law on Civil and Political Rights, 26 MICH. J. INT'L L. 739 (2005). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol26/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Journal of International Law at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Journal of International Law by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LEGAL "BLACK HOLE"? EXTRATERRITORIAL STATE ACTION AND INTERNATIONAL TREATY LAW ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTSt Ralph Wilde* I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................... 740 II. EXTRATERRITORIAL STATE ACTIVITIES ................................... 741 III. THE NEED FOR GREATER SCRUTINY ........................................ 752 A. Ignoring ExtraterritorialActivity ...................................... 753 B. GreaterRisks of Rights Violations in the ExtraterritorialContext ....................................................
    [Show full text]
  • A Comparative Study of French-Canadian and Mexican-American Contemporary Poetry
    A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FRENCH-CANADIAN AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY POETRY by RODERICK JAMES MACINTOSH, B.A., M.A. A DISSERTATION IN SPANISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OP PHILOSOPHY Approved Accepted May, 1981 /V<9/J^ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am T«ry grateful to Dr. Edmundo Garcia-Giron for his direction of this dissertation and to the other mem­ bers of my committee, Dr. Norwood Andrews, Dr. Alfred Cismaru, Dr. Aldo Finco and Dr. Faye L. Bianpass, for their helpful criticism and advice. 11 ' V^-^'s;-^' CONTENTS ACKNOWI£DGMENTS n I. k BRIEF HISTORY OF QUE3EC 1 II• A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEXICAN-AMERICANS ^9 III. A LITERARY HISTORY OF QUEBEC 109 IV. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF ^MEXICAN LITERATURE 164 7» A LITERARY HISTORY OF HffiXICAN-AT/lERICANS 190 ' VI. A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT CANADZkll FRENCH AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN SPANISH 228 VII- CONTEMPORARY PRSNCK-CANADIAN POETRY 2^7 VIII. CONTEMPORARY TffiCICAN-AMERICAN POETRY 26? NOTES 330 BIBLIOGRAPHY 356 111 A BRIEF HISTORY OF QUEBEC In 153^ Jacques Cartier landed on the Gaspe Penin­ sula and established French sovereignty in North America. Nevertheless, the French did not take effective control of their foothold on this continent until 7^ years later when Samuel de Champlain founded the settlement of Quebec in 1608, at the foot of Cape Diamond on the St. Laurence River. At first, the settlement was conceived of as a trading post for the lucrative fur trade, but two difficul­ ties soon becam,e apparent—problems that have plagued French Canada to the present day—the difficulty of comirunication across trackless forests and m.ountainous terrain and the rigors of the Great Canadian Winter.
    [Show full text]
  • (Month 2015), No. 27 Christopher Fynsk, Last Steps: Maurice Blan
    H-France Review Volume 15 (2015) Page 1 H-France Review Vol. 15 (Month 2015), No. 27 Christopher Fynsk, Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot’s Exilic Writing. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. viii + 297 pp. Notes and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780823251025; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780823251032. Review by Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University. The “last steps” that grace Christopher Fynsk’s engaging study of Maurice Blanchot with its title are in fact transposed from the title of Le pas au-delà, the maddeningly abstract series of prose fragments that Blanchot published in 1973. On the one hand, the “pace” (pas) or step beyond, an invitation to transgression; on the other, a veto of that very proposition: the negative pas declining to affirm any “beyond” or transgression at all. These are “steps” that seem to be canceling each other out, figuring a form of paralysis that might also be characterized as labyrinthine, essentially thwarted. And that thwartedness, canceling out every would-be advance or progress, figures in turn the exilic aspect of Blanchot’s writing alluded to in Fynsk’s subtitle. Writing is a journey or “exodus” into the wilderness, a protracted exercise in disorientation that sees Blanchot invoking the second book of the Bible, the epic of wandering or suffering Judaism, of Jews in sufferance, as a kind of core fantasy (or reality) of literature. The precision of that double inscription--the transgressive step (pas) beyond that which is simultaneously “not (pas) beyond”--as formula for a paralysis akin alternately to the disorientation of the wilderness and the experience of being at sea, will call to mind the dimension of dissemination or différance that became touchstones of deconstruction.
    [Show full text]
  • RC21 AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE 2011 the STRUGGLE to BELONG DRAFT PROGRAMME Update: 12-June 2011 Sessions Are Numbered 1.1 Etc
    RC21 AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE 2011 THE STRUGGLE TO BELONG DRAFT PROGRAMME Update: 12-June 2011 Sessions are numbered 1.1 etc. Round Tables are numbered RT1.1 etc. 1. NEIGHBOURHOODS AND INDIVIDUALS: ADVANCED METHODOLOGIES Session Organizer: Karien Dekker 1.1: QUANTITATIVE METHODS. Chair: Karien Dekker. Discussant: Tom van der Meer. Wouter van Gent & Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam) Mobility patterns of first- and second-generation immigrant groups in Dutch urban regions Mariane C. Koslinski et. al. (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Regional and Urban Planning Research Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro) Socio-spatial processes and educational opportunities: a study of the effects of urban violence on school outcome in Rio de Janeiro Sako Musterd, Galster, Andersson (University of Amsterdam) Temporal dimensions and the measurement of neighbourhood effects Emily Miltenburg and Flip Lindo (University of Amsterdam) A different place for different people? Inequalities in the Effect of the Urban Neighbourhood on Residents‟ Socioeconomic Status RT1.1: VISUAL METHODS. Chair: Karien Dekker. Suvi Aho (Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences) Drama-based Methods in Urban Settings Kelum Palipane (University of Melbourne) Towards a Sensory Production of Urban Space: Developing a Conceptual Framework of Inquiry based on Socio- sensory Perception Hülya Mete (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University – Istanbul) Expectation of Immigration Alicia Qiji (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Migrant Community and Education for Migrant Children
    [Show full text]
  • Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin- De-Siècle French Novel
    Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin- de-Siècle French Novel The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Tanner, Jessica Leigh. 2013. Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin-de-Siècle French Novel. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10947429 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, WARNING: This file should NOT have been available for downloading from Harvard University’s DASH repository. Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin-de-siècle French Novel A dissertation presented by Jessica Leigh Tanner to The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2013 © 2013 – Jessica Leigh Tanner All rights reserved. Dissertation Advisor: Professor Janet Beizer Jessica Leigh Tanner Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin-de-siècle French Novel Abstract This dissertation examines representations of prostitution in male-authored French novels from the later nineteenth century. It proposes that prostitution has a map, and that realist and naturalist authors appropriate this cartography in the Second Empire and early Third Republic to make sense of a shifting and overhauled Paris perceived to resist mimetic literary inscription. Though always significant in realist and naturalist narrative, space is uniquely complicit in the novel of prostitution due to the contemporary policy of reglementarism, whose primary instrument was the mise en carte: an official registration that subjected prostitutes to moral and hygienic surveillance, but also “put them on the map,” classifying them according to their space of practice (such as the brothel or the boulevard).
    [Show full text]
  • AHA 2010 Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Women
    www.theAHAfoundation.org FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN Political Islam’s threat to freedom of expression is bad for everyone, but hurts women the most December 2, 2010 Published by the AHA Foundation The AHA Foundation 130 7th Avenue, Suite 236, New York, NY 10011 [email protected] Table of Contents Executive Summary & Recommendations 3 Introduction: The Price of Freedom of Expression 6 Section 1: The Importance of Freedom of Expression for the Rights of 7 Muslim Women in Western Countries Section 2: Political Islam and Multiple Levels of Pressure against Freedom 10 of Expression 1) Global Political Pressure 12 2) Lawsuits and Legal Tactics Pressuring Individuals—the Fight in the 25 Courts 3) Pressure through Physical Threats to Individuals 31 4) Internal Pressures: U.S. Institutions, Fear, and Self-Censorship 39 Section 3: The Effects of a Climate of Domination 48 Conclusion: A More Effective Response in the United States and Other 52 Western Countries References 55 2 Executive Summary Supporters of political Islam have launched a multifaceted assault on the principles of freedom in the West. Political Islam includes the establishment of Sharia (the body of Islamic religious law), which contains harsh restrictions on freedom of expression, as well as harsh punishments for apostasy and blasphemy and standards at odds with modern Western norms of gender equality. Political Islamists are actively attempting to extend the reach of Sharia over Western cultures and legal systems. This report addresses how, through means of actual physical violence, threats and intimidation, legal action, and political pressure, the emancipation of Muslim women is stunted if not ground to a halt.
    [Show full text]
  • The Image of the Turk in Early Modern Board Games and Playing Cards
    THE IMAGE OF THE TURK IN EARLY MODERN BOARD GAMES AND PLAYING CARDS ÖMER FATİH PARLAK PHD THESIS Directed by DR. MARÍA JOSÉ VEGA RAMOS and DR. LARA VILÀ TOMAS Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Literature Faculty of PhiLosophy and Arts BarceLona 2019 In memory of my father, Adem Parlak (1949-2014) TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................... 5 TABLE OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................ 8 LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................... 9 ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... 10 RESUMEN ......................................................................................................................... 11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................................. 12 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 15 GAMES INDEX ................................................................................................................... 23 Germany ...................................................................................................................... 23 Italy .............................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Hoover to Help Farmers Hit by Drought
    ■ V .■ ■■■ , ..... '-.v ■: .'-vir5--.-y5-- ■'r.v«- n e t p b e s s b e n a v e r a g e d a i l y dBOELATION for to® Month of Jtdy> 1980 5 , 4 1 6 Members ot the Audit Bureau of ClTcvlatlona 1 V O L . X U V ., 1^0. 261. (Classifi^ Ach^erGtoig oh Page 10) GOLD RUSH ON Serves Congressional District as Liirge fTHREEMENDIE, IN AUSTRALIA SHIPS CRASH as New England HOOVER Thirty Ounce Gold Nugget ISMSTAKEN Found— Over 250 Prospec­ AT SEA, FOUR ONEINJURED IN FDRTiyORTH TO HELP FARMERS tors Already on the Field, EL R \ s o Bendigo, Austrsdia, Aug. 5— SAILORS DIE FDR»GGLER S T A im F I R E (AP)— Discovery of a 30 ounce gold nugget at TarnaguUa, Vic­ HIT BY DROUGHT toria, 40 miles from here, has Dry Officials Keep Details started a new gold rush. American Freighter Cute )$$ Estimated at M ore' than 250 prospectors, most of them driving American Secret— Two Boats Meet Stone WiD Be Left Un- cars, already have reached the Swedish Vessel in Two; LONDON WECOMES Exfdosion Starts Blaze; No field and pegged out claims. Australia today was in the in Darkness Off Ipswich; turned to Relieve Distress Hope Held Ont for Fonrth throes of the greatest gold fever Half of Ship Sinks; Other NOTED GIRL FLIER in many years. Seven expedi­ in Stricken Areas/’ He tions with full equipment Half Being Towed to P ort Taken for Runners. Victim of Acddent. including airplanes, trucks, and ANTONIO ______ . ' (I • - ^ camel caravans, the prospectors Writes — Situation Be­ backed by msmy thousands of Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug.
    [Show full text]
  • An Annotated List of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1990-2005)
    Volume 38 Number 2 Article 12 5-15-2020 An Annotated List of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1990-2005) Emily E. Auger Independent Scholar Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Auger, Emily E. (2020) "An Annotated List of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1990-2005)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 38 : No. 2 , Article 12. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss2/12 This Notes and Letters is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract This annotated list of books from 1990 through 2005 continues the bibliography in Mythlore 36.2 (Spring- Summer 2018) and includes abstracts for each novel or series and some card layout diagrams. Additional Keywords Fantasy literature—Bibliography; Tarot in literature This notes and letters is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R.
    [Show full text]
  • La Parité Paradoxale, De La Justice Sociale À L'instrumentalisation Des
    Malka Marcovich CONTROVER ES S 67 La parité paradoxale, de la justice sociale à l’instrumentalisation des droits des femmes Malka Marcovich Historienne, auteur de Les Nations dés-Unies, ou comment l’ONU enterre les Droits de l’Homme Liberté, universalité, parité (Edit. Jacob-Duvernet). Je fais partie des féministes qui ont défendu durant les années 1990 l’inscription de la parité dans la constitution. Il ne s’agissait en aucune manière d’une affirmation « communauta- riste » – car les femmes ne constituent nulle- ment une « communauté » ni davantage une « catégorie » 1 de la population – mais d’une revendication pour plus de justice et pour la mise en œuvre du contrat social d’égalité affirmé sur le fronton des mairies de la République. La France de la liberté, de l’Universel, « des droits de l’Homme » accusait un retard patent dans la représentation politique des femmes par rapport aux autres démocraties dans le monde. En 1981, malgré la création pour la pre- mière fois d’un Ministère aux droits des femmes confié à Yvette Roudy, on ne trouvait que 5 % de députées et 2 % de sénatrices. En 1993, lorsque débuta le mouvement pour plus de représentation politique des femmes, l’Assemblée n’avait gagné qu’un point par rapport aux chiffres calamiteux des années 802, affichant 6 % et le Sénat 5 %. Alors que l’on assistait à un formidable vent d’espoir démocratique en Europe avec l’effondrement des régimes communistes, que l’Afrique du Sud sortait 68 CONTROVER ES S Dossier d’une longue période de discrimination raciste, la France qui se présentait comme la voix inspirée des droits fondamentaux dans le monde, continuait d’exclure de sa représentation politique plus de la moitié de sa population.
    [Show full text]
  • Ligue Communiste SP in Defense of the Democratic Europe As Well
    ' . JULY _13, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 27 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Worldwide solidaritY- needed rotest out awi rene revo utionists Paris, June 21. Club-swinging cops charge antifascist demonstrators. Ligue Cornrnuniste, one of the organizers of the demonstration, has been outlawed by French government. See pages 3-6. By CAROLINE LUND jailing of two Ligue Communiste SP in defense of the democratic Europe as well. For instance, the PARIS, July 5- The June 28 gov­ leaders, Alain Krivine and Pierr:e rights of any of the far-left orga­ daily Le Soir in Brussels ran a ernment deeree outlawing the Rousset, has come from the entire nizations, (groups to the left of the banner headline "Krivine Impulte" Ligue Communiste (Communist spectrum of the French left and Communist Party), is unprece­ ( Krivine Indicted). League), French section of the working-class organizations. dented. Alain Krivine, presidential can­ Fourth International, stemming The extent of this opposition waP The banning of the Ligue, and ~idate of the Ligue in the 1969 The Militant has sent staH writer dramatically expressed here last the rising protest against it, has French elections, was indicted Caroline Lund to Paris to provide night as 10,000 to 15,000 peo­ had a major impact on French under the "antiwrecker law" passed our readers with firsthand cover­ ple attended a mass protest meet­ politics. This was reflected in a in 1970. This law enables the gov~ ing called for the defense of civil TV statement by Prime Minister ernment to hold a leader of an age of the struggle against the liberties.
    [Show full text]