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This award-winning book, written by Jean-Luc Barre at the request of the Maritain Archives in Kolbsheim, France, and published in France in 1995, was the first biography of noted French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raissa. Drawing on the wealth of Maritain materials at the Kolbsheim archives, many of which are unpublished, Barre offers a clear and objective account of the remarkable lives and intellectual pursuits of the Maritains. Noted scholar and translator Bernard Doering has now made this essential work available for the first time in English. Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven focuses not only on the Maritains' philosophical work, but also on their pursuit of social justice, their opposition to the Vichy, their battle against intellectual repression in the church, and their contemplative life of prayer and devotion. Barre places a particular emphasis on the Maritains' close and supportive friendships with novelists, poets, painters, and musicians who were considered revolutionary at the time. Doering's translation will appeal not only to scholars but also to anyone interested in intellectual history generally and the intellectual history of modern Catholicism in particular. Reviews of the French Edition: "With respect and admiration . . . doing the work of a historian as well as a biographer, Jean-Luc Barre has spun out the life thread of the Maritains. Above all he has found, between the history of the century and the personal history of this couple, a very just balance. . . . From every point of view, from the multiplicity and the complexity of the historical figures of the Maritains-from the most intimate aspects to their outward 'engagements'-the biography furnishes all the necessary information. It puts into relief the line of force which dominates and orders this life."--Le Monde "Few French intellectuals have had in the world, and while they were still alive, as much influence as Jacques Maritain. . . . The work of Jean-Luc Barre lets us reconstitute the itinerary of these beggars from heaven, in part philosophers, in part mystics. . . . [It offers] finely chiseled portraits . . . and an encyclopedic knowledge of that world of yesterday which we forget so readily."--Figaro Litteraire

Quels sont les instruments de mesure disponibles pour évaluer et tester les intérêts professionnels ? L’évaluation des intérêts professionnels est souvent pratiquée dans le domaine de la psychologie de l’orientation, du travail et de l’éducation. Cet ouvrage vise à combler le manque d’un ouvrage récent en français présentant les théories et les pratiques dans ce domaine. Il comprend deux parties : la première, plus théorique, présente les principaux modèles théoriques, en particulier ceux de Strong, de Kuder et de Holland. La seconde partie, plus pratique, présente l’évaluation des intérêts selon les différents modes d’interventions (individuelle ou collective), selon les différents publics (collégiens, lycéens, étudiants ou adultes) et selon les différents courants des pratiques en psychologie de l’orientation. Les professionnels du monde de la psychologie pourront interpréter les résultats des outils d'évaluation des intérêts professionnels à l'aide de cet ouvrage de référence. À PROPOS DES AUTEURS Jean-Luc Bernaud, Docteur en Psychologie, est Maître de conférences en psychologie différentielle à l’Université de Rouen. Pierre Vrignaud, Docteur en Psychologie est Maître de conférences en psychologie du développement à l’Université Paris X Nanterre.

Die hier vereinten Texte der führenden Köpfe des französischen Poststrukturalismus machen mit einer bis heute ungewohnten Herangehensweise an das schwer zu fassende OEuvre Friedrich Nietzsches bekannt. Die Autoren dieser Sammlung stellen insgesamt die Legitimität in Frage, Nietzsches Werk nach der Logik des Gegensatzes von Metaphysik und Nicht-Metaphysik, Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung, Philosophie und Literatur zu bestimmen. Das Buch lässt eine Diskussion des »guten« oder »bösen« Nietzsche hinter sich, stattdessen führen die hier versammelten Lektüren Denkbewegungen vor, die zeigen, wie fruchtbar Nietzsches Schriften für ein Denken der Vielfalt und Differenz zu machen ist und welche Impulse auch heute noch von seinen Schriften ausgehen. Hamachers Sammlung will Nietzsche aus ideologisierenden Festschreibungen lösen und dazu beitragen, Nietzsche erneut zu lesen.

Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, this Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec. The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Guérande Peninsula has been known to cause hallucinations. Commissaire Dupin also starts to believe this when he’s attacked out of the blue in the salt works. He had actually been looking forward to escaping his endless paperwork and taking a trip to the “white country” between the raging Atlantic Ocean and idyllic rivers. But when he starts snooping around mysterious barrels on behalf of Lilou Breval, a journalist friend, he finds himself unexpectedly under attack. The offender remains a mystery, and a short time later, Breval disappears without a trace. It is thanks to his secretary Nolwenn and the ambition of the prefect that Dupin is assigned to the case. But he won’t be working alone because Sylvaine Rose is the investigator responsible for the department—and she lives up to her name... What’s going on in the salt works? Dupin and Rose search feverishly for clues and stumble upon false alibis, massive conflicts of interest, personal feuds—and ancient Breton legends.

This festschrift in honour of Professor Jean Guichard celebrates the important theoretical and applied contributions of his writings on guidance and counselling. Regarding the structure of the volume, the book consists of three parts. The first part is related to the theoretical contributions of Jean Guichard and introduces the richness of his thought, highlighting the antecedents, assonance, conceptual collaborations, and outcomes of his theories. The second part is devoted to the many extensions of his work. The third part concerns application and provides examples of the use of 'Self-Construction' and 'Life Construction' theories in practice.

What causes vegetation and soil degradation? What are the consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources and the climate? What are future impacts on human societies and the economy? Desertification is often wrongly perceived as a remote issue for our European countries. As a result, efforts to combat it are struggling to gain footing as an environmental priority. Yet desertification is not inevitable. In this book, the authors show that this phenomenon is not always linked to climate change, and that it is not only an issue in dryland areas, although they are most exposed. They clarify the various geographical, biological and socioeconomic aspects of desertification and draw on the most recent research to explain the methods and expected benefits of combating desertification and land degradation. This book, which is aimed at scientists, NGOs, journalists, students, decision-makers, etc., deconstructs several preconceived ideas to contribute fully to national and international debates.

Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and networks of cross-national assemblages— and we do this at the same time as we form multinational corporations that no longer pay taxes to the state. In such a time, one of the world’s most eminent philosophers and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology. Nancy and Barrau’s work is a study of life, plural worlds, and what the authors call the struction or rebuilding of these worlds. Nancy and Barrau invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, “What’s this world coming to?,” is used to question our conventional thinking about the world. We soon find ourselves living among heaps of odd bits and pieces that are amassing without any unifying force or center, living not only in a time of ruin and fragmentation but in one of rebuilding. Astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau articulates a major shift in the paradigm of contemporary physics from a universe to a multiverse. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Of Struction” is a contemporary comment on the project of deconstruction and French poststructuralist thought. Together Barrau and Nancy argue that contemporary thought has shifted from deconstruction to what they carefully call the struction of dis-order.

Trois hommes pour cette expérience qui a vu Bernard Noël se prêter au jeu des questions de Jean-Luc Bayard sous l'œil de la caméra de Denis Lazerme. Au final un livre d'entretien réalisé à partir de 15 heures de rushes revus par les auteurs auquel est joint le DVD du film. Jean-Luc Bayard parle volontiers de voyage dans une vie de création, traversée du temps de la vie d'un homme qui fait resurgir aussi bien le passé que ce que l'on pourrait faire si l'on croyait à l'avenir. Si l'on est bien en présence d'un homme c'est que l'homme y est au présent...