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In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) (English and French Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

KRISTEVA, JULIA

Goldhammer, Arthur

Psychology & Counseling

Columbia Univ. Pr.

In this volume of autobiography, Michel Tournier, novelist and philosopher, evokes both the personal experiences and the cultural currents that shaped himself, his ideas and his fiction.

The Wind Spirit: An Autobiography

TOURNIER, MICHEL

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust (The Seeley Lectures, Series Number 7)

Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from entering a phase of general political apathy. Demonstrations and activism abound in the streets, in cities across the globe and on the internet. Pierre Rosanvallon analyses the mechanisms used to register a citizen's expression of confidence or distrust, and then focuses on the role that distrust plays in democracy from both a historical and theoretical perspective. This radical shift in perspective uncovers a series of practices - surveillance, prevention, and judgement - through which society corrects and exerts pressure.

Politics & Social Sciences

Rosanvallon, Pierre

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

An examination of the events of the 16th August 1870 in a small village in the Dordogne, when a young nobleman was tortured at a local fair, then burned alive in the presence of several hundred peasants who had accused him of having shouted "Vive la Repubique!". When night fell, the crowd dispersed, boasting that they had "roasted a Prussian". Some expressed regret at not having inflicted the same punishment on the parish priest. Corbin examines the events of that day, together with the circumstances which led up to them, focusing on the behaviour and psychological state of those involved. He discusses the role of rumour in the atrocity and penetrates the minds of the participants to find out why their suppressed anxiety exploded into an irrepressible rage that nothing short of murder could quell. Corbin continues by analyzing the ritual of the popular execution, the place of the victim and the torturers in the local community, together with the image of the Prussian as a hate-figure.

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Corbin, Alain

History

Blackwell*publishers

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