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Author: Léon de Mattis File Type: pdf En octobre 2008, le systeme financier mondial a failli secrouler. Depuis, la crise financiere sest muee en une crise de la dette publique qui saggrave de mois en mois. Le fonctionnement de leconomie, a lheure actuelle, repose sur la croyance en la capacite des Etats a maintenir la valeur de la valeur. Que cette croyance seffondre et le systeme perit. Crises saisit cette occasion pour poser une question que les economistes evitent toujours pourquoi largent vaut-il quelque chose plutot que rien ? Repondre a cette question cest sinterroger sur les fondements de la valeur dans le capitalisme. A lheure ou beaucoup sindignent de la situation actuelle en croyant naivement que lon pourrait revenir a leconomie regulee des lendemains de la seconde guerre mondiale, il faut rappeler que le rapport social capitaliste ne peut etre combattu quen lattaquant a la racine. Tant quil y aura de largent, il ny en aura pas assez pour tout le monde.

Author: Richard Boothby File Type: pdf The influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacans work is challenging too, for the way in which it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freuds theory - the concept of a self-destructive drive or death instinct. Death and Desire presents, in Lacanian terms, a new integration of psychoanalytic theory in which the battery of key Freudian concepts - from the dynamics of the Oedipus complex to the topography of ego, id, and superego - are seen to intersect in Freuds most far-reaching and speculative formulation of a drive toward death. Boothby argues that Lacan repositioned the theme of death in psychoanalysis in relation to Freuds main concern - the nature of fate and desire. In doing so, Lacan rediscovered Freuds essential insights in a manner so subtle and penetrating that prevailing assessments of the death instinct may well have to be re-examined. This book should be of interest to professionals in training and practice, undergraduates and graduates in the fields of psychoanalysis, literary criticism, philosophy and feminist theory.

Author: Peter W. Edbury File Type: pdf William, archbishop of Tyre from 1175 to c.1184, was a churchman, royal servant and scholar who lived in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem around 1130, he studied in western Europe for almost twenty years until 1165, when he returned to the East to begin his career in public life. He left to posterity a monumental history in which he described the events of the First Crusade (1095-9) and recorded the fortunes of the western rulers of the states subsequently founded in Syria and the Holy Land down to his own day. The value of his work as an example of twelfth-century historiography and as a source of information for the events described has long been recognized. In this study the authors consider William as a public figure and historian, and examine the influences which bore upon his writing and the way in which he fashioned his material. They then go on to examine what he had to say about certain topics - the monarchy in Jerusalem, the Church, the papacy, the Byzantine empire and the Crusade - and why he wrote as he did.ReviewReview of the hardback ... a useful and readable book, which provides a sound discussion of the background to the composition of Williams chronicle and which brings out some of the more significant aspects of his outlook as a historian. The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryReview of the hardback As an introduction to Williams Historia this study is admirable cleanly presented, coherently argued, and clearly organized. American Historical ReviewReview of the hardback ... the first full analysis in English of William as a historian ... a welcome and stimulating contribution to the debate. History Book DescriptionIn this study, first published in 1988, the authors offer the first full-scale study of William of Tyre as a historian. They examine the influences which fashioned his material, and examine what he had to say about certain topics - the monarchy in Jerusalem, the Church, the papacy, the Byzantine empire and the Crusade - and why he wrote as he did.