A la croisee de problematiques incompatibles et incoherentes, le debat sur la fin de la vie et sur l'euthanasie, veritable noeud gordien, est bloque. La poesie et sa parole ouverte s'invitent ici, a la fin de la vie de patients qui n'esperent plus etre gueris le plus vite possible."

Jean-Pierre Parra presente un poeme sur l'amour qui dit un etat different du rapport de force du monde pressenti par deux etres qui participent, sans y penser, a une autre realite. Illlustration de couverture: Marianic Parra sculpture 2009 ""Voyageuse de tous cotes"" 40-30-20 cm sable volcanique

When Pieter Verburg (1905-1989) published Taal en Functionaliteit in 1952, the work was received with admiration by linguistic scholars, though the number of those who could read the Dutch text for themselves remained limited. The title alludes to the theories of linguistic function set out in 1936 by Karl Bühler, but Verburg regards the three functions of discourse — focussing respectively on the speaker, the person addressed and the matter discussed — as no more than sub-functions of the human function of speech. His central concern is to explore the relationships between thought and language, and language and reality; and the work sets out to provide a historical analysis of views on these relationships in the period 1100 to 1800. The great strength of the work lies in the way in which the views of language are related to contemporaneous moves in philosophy and science, contrasting essentially the mediaeval acceptance of authority, the beginnings of induction in the Renaissance, the dependence of early rationalism on calculation based on axiomatic truths, and the further development of independent observation. All these trends are reflected in the way men thought about language, as well as in the way they used it. Much has been written on the history of linguistics since this book was written, but it still offers a unique view of the development of thinking about language.

This collection reprints key articles written within the past 30 years on the Annales school, their journal, their influence on history, historiography and other academic fields.

Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.