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      • Hotel de las Ideas

        Hotel de las ideas is a cooperative, with 10 co-founders.

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      • Mercure de France

        Provided with a remarkable collection, Mercure de France follows an exacting editorial policy: French and foreign literature, poetry, history, anthologies... Awarded many times, the publishing house is associated with prestigious names: Romain Gary, Colette, Ionesco , André Gide, André du Bouchet, Henri Michaux, Adonis, Yves Bonnefoy, Andréï Makine, Gilles Leroy, Anne Serre, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Julian Barnes...

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        May 1997

        »Freiheit ist wie die Luft zum Atmen«

        Erinnerungen

        by François Mitterrand, Bernd Schwibs

        François Mitterrands »Erinnerungen« sind, bei aller Widersprüchlichkeit der Person, bewegendes Zeugnis der lebenslangen Treue zu sich selbst und Dokument der Visionen eines Staatsmanns, der bereits jetzt zu den ganz Großen dieses Jahrhunderts zählt.

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        October 2017

        Es gibt keine kulturelle Identität

        Wir verteidigen die Ressourcen einer Kultur

        by François Jullien, Landrichter Erwin

        In der globalisierten Welt geht die Angst vor einem Verlust der kulturellen Identität um, und fast überall formieren sich die selbsterklärten Retter: In Frankreich gibt Marine Le Pen vor, sie »im Namen des Volkes« zu verteidigen, die AfD fordert in ihrem Grundsatzprogramm »deutsche Leitkultur statt Multikulturalismus«, und die Identitäre Bewegung ruft gleich in mehreren Ländern mit aggressiven Aktionen zur ihrer Bewahrung auf. Doch gibt es überhaupt so etwas wie eine kulturelle Identität? In seinem neuen Buch zeigt François Jullien, dass dieser Glaube eine Illusion ist. Das Wesen der Kultur, so Jullien, ist die Veränderung. Er plädiert dafür, Bräuche, Traditionen oder eine gemeinsame Sprache als Ressourcen zu begreifen, die prinzipiell allen zur Verfügung stehen.

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        The Arts
        May 2023

        Modern European cinema and love

        by Richard Rushton

        Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the 'couple'.

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        July 1988

        Die Grenzen der Verständigung

        Ein Geistergespräch zwischen Lyotard und Habermas

        by Manfred Frank, Jean-François Lyotard, Jürgen Habermas

        Der neue Essay von Manfred Frank nimmt Stellung zu einer unwirklichen Debatte – der über Dissens und Konsens, die zwischen Jean-François Lyortard und Jürgen Habermas zwar nicht stattgefunden hat, aber hier, in Form eines imaginären Gesprächs, nachgeholt wird. Es geht um etwas Grundsätzliches: um das Abtasten der Demarkationslinie, die den verständigungsorientierten Austausch von Argumenten trennt vom Beharren auf der Uneinigkeit und einheitslosen Pluralität von Äußerungen. Ist die Konsens- Theorie zu harmonistisch, kann Harmonie-Streben Züge diskursiver Gewalt annehmen? Auf der anderen Seite: Läßt sich die These, Streit sei mangels universell akzeptierbarer Schlichtungsregeln unaufhebbar, widerspruchsfrei, d. h. ohne Erhebung von Geltungsansprüchen, durchführen? Fragen, an deren Beantwortung sich entscheidet, ob wir – wie Lyotard glaubt – den Deutungsreserven »des Abendlandes« (in seiner letzten Ausprägung als »Moderne«) unwiderruflich entwachsen sind oder ob die Moderne – wie Habermas annimmt – das Zeug dazu hat , ihre Lernfähigkeit bis zur Selbstkritik zu steigern.

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        May 1993

        Der Vorsorgestaat

        Aus dem Französischen von Wolfram Bayer und Hermann Kocyba. Mit einem Essay von Ulrich Beck

        by François Ewald, Hermann Kocyba, Wolfram Bayer

        Die Anerkennung des Phänomens eines Vorsorgestaates erzwingt eine neue Analyse der Moderne, die denjenigen Untersuchungen widerspricht, die in der zunehmenden Technisierung der Welt und einem damit einhergehenden Sinnverlust ein Überhandnehmen des Nihilismus zu erkennen glauben. Die Perspektive, die der französische Philosoph François Ewald in diesem Band einnimmt, eröffnet einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Entwicklung des modernen Staates. Dies geschieht im Sinne einer Beschreibung sogenannter »Praktiken der Verantwortung«. Anhand der genauen Rekonstruktion eines Perspektivenwandels auf den »Arbeitsunfall« zeigt Ewald, wie die Kategorie des Risikos zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einer politischen wird. Dieser Wandel hat schließlich die Gründung einer Reihe von Versicherungen und Versicherungsanstalten zur Folge. Diese Veränderungen sind bisher immer als Geburt des Wohlfahrtsstaates beschrieben worden. Ewald zeigt dagegen, daß es sinnvoll ist, sie unter dem Begriff des »Vorsorgestaates« zu fassen. Die Analyse, die von Ewald hier vorgeführt wird, wirft ein vollkommen neues Licht auf philosophische wie auch rechtssoziologische Themen und Methoden – und das alles unter Foucaultscher Perspektive. Die Ausarbeitung des Modells eines Vorsorgestaates muß deswegen als Manifest einer neuen Rechtsphilosophie gelesen werden.

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        May 1994

        Jüdisches Denken in Frankreich

        Gespräche mit Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-François Lyotard u. a.

        by Elisabeth Weber, Elisabeth Weber, Luc Rosenzweig, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jacques Derrida, Rita Thalmann, Emmanuel Lévinas, Léon Poliakov, Jean-François Lyotard, Elisabeth Weber

        Elisabeth Weber im Gespräch mit Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jacques Derrida, Rita Thalmann, Emmanuel Lévinas, Léon Poliakov, Jean-François Lyotard, Luc Rosenzweig.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        François Ozon

        by Andrew Asibong

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        AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A ZEN MONK

        by Taisen Deshimaru

        A story of bravery and false starts, Autobiography of a Zen Monk candidly recounts the author’s development from a highly mischievous Japanese boy into a world-renowned Sensei (Teacher) of Zen. While countless memoirs exist written by Zen students and teachers, few are as engaging and as tantalizing as Taisen Deshimaru’s. Looking back at his early life, growing up in Japan, from the viewpoint of his status as a Zen teacher in Paris, the author reflects on his earliest misadventures—from defacing a valuable painting of Bodhidharma as a child, to turning the “Zen stick” on a young monk during a retreat. Adventures abound with stories about alcohol and women, during his student years, and his activities during World War II in working for the arms industry in Malaysia, where he was sympathetic to the underground freedom movement. This first English-language translation of Taisen Deshimaru’s autobiography will be prized for its clear and honest documentation of this great master’s life. Many people all over the world have been influenced by Deshimaru’s Zen teachings, especially his book on Zen and the martial arts. This memoir fills an important gap in our knowledge of his teacher, Kodo Sawaki’s influence on the world of Zen. The story of how Deshimaru met Sawaki as a boy, even slept in the same room with him, and later received monastic ordination is the story of a lifelong friendship of two extraordinary characters in the history of modern Zen. Deshimaru’s influence extends beyond Zen practitioners, though, especially in those interested in the martial arts, as he touches on his martial arts experience as a young man and offers a look into the master’s early training. Additional interest extends to historians who recount the supposed “scandals” of Zen masters’ participation in the war effort. Although Deshimaru’s viewpoint is decidedly subjective, he was intimately acquainted with priests and generals alike, and approaches the difficult subject with a refreshing lack of judgmental disdain which counterbalances many other more lopsided works. Translator, Richard Collins, a longtime Zen practitioner, and currently the Abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple, is a literature scholar and author of several books including No Fear Zen, Hohm Press, 2014. His knowledge of the subject matter and his finesse with language combine to make this book a delightful read for those who appreciate wellwritten memoir.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Francois Truffaut

        by Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

        First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular director whose work features on most A-level French syllabuses and on the majority of University French Studies programmes both in the UK and the USA .

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        2022

        Micronutrient Depleters: Acid Blockers

        Things to know about medicines and micronutrients

        by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

        This guide provides patients with important medical information about interactions of their drug products with vitamins and minerals. These interactions are not always listed in the accompanying package inserts. Those who take acid blockers such as omeprazole or pantoprazole may not only develop disorders relating to calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and bone metabolism in the long term, but above all become deficient in vitamin B12. This way, patients can improve their treatment, reduce the side effects of their medication and increase their quality of life!

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        The Arts
        September 2008

        François Ozon

        by Andrew Asibong, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

        This is the first full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong's passionate and critical analysis focuses on the extent to which Ozon's seemingly light touch never ceases to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential transformation, a transformation that affects both his protagonists and his audiences. A central question emerges: what is at stake, cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon's alternatively utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary social relations. Revealing Ozon as a highly adept 'fan' of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon's importance for a thoroughly postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves. ;

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Five Directors

        Auteurism from Assayas to Ozon

        by Kate Ince

        Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term auteur by Andrew Sarris. Through the popular, controversial and critically acclaimed films of Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne borthers, Michael Haneke and Francois Ozon, this book looks into how the meaning of 'auteur' has changed over this half-century, and assesses the current state of Francophone auteur cinema. It combines French philosophical and sociological approaches with methodologies from the Anglo-American fields of gender studies, queer theory and postmodernism. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of film studies, European cinema and French and Francophone studies, as well as to film enthusiasts.

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        Medicine
        April 2023

        The malleable body

        Surgeons, artisans, and amputees in early modern Germany

        by Heidi Hausse

        This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons' ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body - that it was malleable.

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        February 2015

        Erfüllte Hoffnung

        Städtepartnerschaften als Instrument der deutsch-französischen Aussöhnung, 1950–2000

        by Filipová, Lucie

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