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Abstract The idea that the individual was susceptible to cultivation also drew the attention of XVIIIᵉ   century writers to the problem of defining the individual, and to the question of his ability to reinvent himself. In this lecture, I will examine …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …

Abstract The beetle is an insect that feeds on the excrement of animals much larger than itself, from which it extracts the appropriate substance to produce the carapace we know and love. In the same way, there is a form of writing that feeds on the waste …

Abstract Traditionally, actors were hired to do jobs that condemned them to playing the same range of characters throughout their careers. It was in the 1980s, with Antoine Vitez in particular, that this practice began to crumble, giving way to roles and …

Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract What does observing what is furthest from oneself offer as a horizon for "   making the leap from the ferocious beast   "  ? The importance of the radically different. What does the encounter with the sphere farthest from oneself provoke in …

Abstract of Christophe Chassenieux 's presentation Proteins as new sources of materials Beyond their everyday use in our diet, proteins are also functional building blocks that can be used to obtain materials with properties of interest. For example, milk …

Abstract The kingdom of Mari was dimorphic  : alongside the sedentary population, it included a very large nomadic population. It is usually said that we only know about nomads through the distorting prism of sedentary writings. This is not the case in …

Lecture outline : girard's paradox with one type of all types   ; difference with Russell's paradox   ; universe as reflection principle   ; algebraic proof of canonicity with the Artin gluing technique and normalization proof   ; application to proof …

Abstract Photocatalysis has progressed enormously over the last decade, with numerous applications in organic synthesis, where the energy of excited states is used to induce reactions involving intermediates that would be inaccessible by thermal means. …

Elected to the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair, Prof. Claudine Tiercelin gave her opening lecture on Thursday May 5, 2011. Over the next fourteen years, her lectures explored a renewed approach to metaphysics, articulating classical …