Les Humains et leurs divinités. Politique et religions en dialogue

Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames. Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...

Ouvrage théorique et manuel pratique, ce livre permet de mieux comprendre l'éjaculation prématurée. Il apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les causes de cette dysfonction et procure des moyens concrets pour la traiter.

C'est à partir de sa prise en considération et de sa volonté de description du "monde" que la phénoménologie a tôt revendiqué une part dans les travaux philosophiques contemporains sur cette notion. Loin de rejeter le "monde" dans les limbes d'un sensible insensé, ou de projeter sur lui une conceptualité prédéterminée voire méta-physique, la phénoménologie, même lorsqu'elle le critique, se veut logos du "monde" , en lui empruntant sa matière riche, ouverte et variée. Voilà pourquoi les analyses phénoménologiques offrent une vraie pluralité de perspectives, toutes très actuelles, souvent proactives et toujours riches en possibilités d'applications éthiques et pratiques. Ce qui n'est pas peu si nous comptons le nombre de fois que nous disons le mot "monde" en une journée et que, surtout, il nous revient d'habiter ce "monde" , d'y vivre et de nous y engager. Ce fort volume, où les jeunes et prometteuses voix de la phénoménologie contemporaine prennent la parole, est certes un ouvrage théorique, mais aussi un manuel pratique pour s'orienter dans le "monde" .

They are qualified, experienced, motivated, academically accomplished. They work tirelessly, collecting invaluable data in the field under conditions that are always challenging, and at times dangerous. And yet, their voices are unheard, and their names go unacknowledged in published research. Such is the lot of far too many research assistants from the Global South - people upon whose work an entire industry of knowledge production has been built. They are shut out of discussions on project design and left in the dark about the modalities of research funding. Later, the results of their research are published in journals to which they often have no access. Much of this is due to a certain omertà surrounding power imbalances, as well as research assistants' working conditions, financial difficulties, psychological traumas, and vulnerabilities. It also stems from the persistence of colonial mentalities in the research world - within universities, governments, foundations, aid institutions, and NGO's. The Bukavu Series is a vibrant blog series about the experiences of research assistants in the Global South. Driven primarily by these silent voices, the series yields a mosaic depiction of fieldwork that mixes humor, realism, and incisive critique. This book offers a unique entry point into a critical debate, leading us toward concrete reforms, and setting us on the course toward a decolonisation of research.