Diogenes articles from June 1999

Diogenes archives from June 1999

Le vouloir-dire de Francis Ponge.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Henri Maldiney, Le vouloir-dire de Francis Ponge, encre marine, Fougeres, 1993 Henri Maldiney was born at Mersault (Cote d'Or) in 1912. A student at the Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified in philosophy, he was called up and, in June...

From Postmodernism to Mutation: How the Twentieth Century Draws to a Close.
June 22, 1999... Dear readers, perhaps you have not realized it, but your lives so far have been spent in a period called `postmodern'.(1) The word is well-known to you. It has been around for many years. It almost always occurs unexpectedly, half way...

At the Margins of Theatre. On the Connection Between Theatre and Anthropology.
June 22, 1999... Scanning the corpus and repertoire of anthropological science, insofar as we wish and are able to, we note that ethnological observations and studies on theatre are not lacking, but that they seem to have been isolated opportunities for...

Introduction.(Poem)
June 22, 1999... The contributions gathered together here follow on from a seminar organized within the framework of the network, `Literate worlds' (CNRS, Paris, Programme `Archives de la Creation') in June 1998, centring on Jean Irigoin's book (1997),...

From Book to Text: Towards a Comparative History of Philologies.
June 22, 1999... Our methods of research, duly elaborated hereafter, would benefit from being applied to the realm of the East. For that matter, the examination of Syriac, Armenian, Coptic or Arabic manuscripts does not differ in the least from that of a Greek...

The Transmission of Greek Texts from the Author to the Editor of Today.
June 22, 1999... A recent publication was the starting point of this discussion, whose purpose is to demonstrate the interest of a comparative history of the philological traditions of diverse cultures.(1) In the papers resulting from this discussion, and...

From the Quest for the Archetype to the History of Texts. A Short Note on the French Critical Style.
June 22, 1999... `It is not possible to settle on a method of classifying manuscripts in the abstract; the lost works whose content is being reconstructed can be dated more or less precisely and the classification only acquires significance if it is accompanied...

The Criticism and Transmission of Texts in Classical India(*).
June 22, 1999... Compared with the Greek and Latin fields, the systematic study of the concept of textual criticism in classical India has made little progress, despite the quality of work produced by specialists.(1) And yet research of this nature would...

Perceptions of History. In Pursuit of the Absolute in Passing Time.
June 22, 1999... The way human history has been perceived through the ages -- by historians, theologians, philosophers, and ordinary mortals -- is itself a topic for a historical study. Our attempt will be more modest, as we shall try to analyse some prominent...

Civilizations as `Aesthetic Absolute'. A Morphological Approach to Mittel-Europa.
June 22, 1999... `What is important is to understand that every fact is already a theory. The blue of the sky already demonstrates the fundamental laws of chromatics. We should not look for anything behind these phenomena; they themselves are the theory' ...

L'art, l'eclair de l'etre: traversees.(Review)
June 22, 1999... L'art, l'eclair de l'etre: traversees, Comp'Act, Paris, 1993 Henri Maldiney was born at Mersault (Cote d'Or) in 1912. A student at the Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified in philosophy, he was called up and, in June 1940, experienced...

Regard, Parole, Espace.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Regard, parole, espace, revised edition, L'Age de l'homme, Lausanne, 1994 Henri Maldiney was born at Mersault (Cote d'Or) in 1912. A student at the Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified in philosophy, he was called up and, in June 1940,...

Aux deserts que l'histoire accable -- L'Art de Tal-Coat.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Aux deserts que l'histoire accable -- L'Art de Tal-Coat, Deyrolle, Paris, 1996 Henri Maldiney was born at Mersault (Cote d'Or) in 1912. A student at the Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified in philosophy, he was called up and, in June...

Avenement de l'oeuvre.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Avenement de l'oeuvre, Theetee, Sainte-Maximim, 1997. Henri Maldiney was born at Mersault (Cote d'Or) in 1912. A student at the Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified in philosophy, he was called up and, in June 1940, experienced those...

Federigo Enriques. Filosofia e storia del pensiero scientifico.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Ornella Pompeo Faracovi and Francesco Speranza (eds) (1998), Federigo Enriques. Filosofia e storia del pensiero scientifico (Belforte, Livorno). Mathematician and author of fundamental contributions to the theory of algebraic surfaces,...

Erratum.(volume 185)(Correction Notice)
June 22, 1999... We would like to apologize for an error in the translation of the title of Eva Kushner's article in Diogenes 185, pp. 49-55. The title should have read: `Sire, The People Are Hungry!' `Let Them Have Symbols!' Literary and Linguistic Studies...