Januar 19, 2012, 9:46 am, Rafael Capurro,
Angeletics,
Ethics,
Humanism,
Metaphysics,
Philosophy,
Posthuman age,
Posthumanism,
Topics.
In the first part of this paper a short history of Western humanisms (Socrates, Pico della Mirandola, Descartes, Kant) is presented. As far as these humanisms rest on a fixation of the ‘humanum’ they are metaphysical, although they might radically differ from each other. The second part deals with the present debate on trans- and posthumanism in the context of some breath-taking developments in science and technology.
Angeletics, a theory of messengers and messages, intends to give an answer to the leading question of this paper, namely: ‘what does it mean to go beyond humanisms?’ The conclusion exposes briefly an ethics of hospitality and care from an angeletic perspective.
Januar 18, 2012, 11:00 pm, Anabases, Allgemein.
Historiographie et identités culturelles
La corruption, un concept philosophique et politique chez les Anciens et les Modernes. [Texte intégral]
Thierry Ménissier
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Januar 18, 2012, 11:00 pm, Anabases, Allgemein.
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Historiographie et identités culturelles
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Pierre Cordier
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Laurent Broche
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Catherine Valenti
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Philippe Foro
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Traditions du patrimoine antique
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Archéologie des savoirs
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« Le Daremberg-Saglio-Pottier en ligne (ND@GR) : un chantier en cours»
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Geneviève Gal
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Les enjeux historiographiques
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Catherine Valenti
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Monique Dondin-Payre
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François Lissarrague
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Anthony Andurand, Julien Cazenave, Sébastien Delmas et Véronique Krings
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Anthony Andurand
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Sébastien Delmas
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Julien Cazenave
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Véronique Krings
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Anthony Andurand, Julien Cazenave et Sébastien Delmas
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Enrichir le DAGR : quelques expérimentations
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Sylvie Rougier-Blanc
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Jean-Marie Pailler
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Sandra Péré-Noguès
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Marie-Hélène Garelli
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Marcello Carastro
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Geneviève Gal
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Actualité et débats
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L’atelier de l’histoire : chantiers historiographiques
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Réception des historiens anciens et fabrique de l’histoire (4)
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Antiquité et fictions contemporaines (2)
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L’antiquité au musée (1)
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Réception du théâtre antique (1)
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Comptes rendus et notes de lecture
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Marie-Laurence Desclos
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Florence Bouchet
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Corinne Bonnet
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Philippe Foro
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Ève Gran-Aymerich
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Olivier Devillers
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Lucie Zoppi
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Jean-Marie Pailler
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Noémie Villacèque
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Olivier Devillers
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Pascal Payen
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Olivier Devillers
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Véronique Krings
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Robert Sablayrolles
Januar 18, 2012, 11:00 pm, Anabases, Allgemein.
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Historiographie et identités culturelles
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Dan Dana
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Paulo Butti de Lima
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Traditions du patrimoine antique
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Pierre Pontier
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Maria Teresa Schettino
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Archeologie des savoirs
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Actualité et débats
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Déborah Roussel
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Isabelle Milliat-Pilot
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Jean-Marie Pailler
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L’atelier de l’histoire : chantiers historiographiques
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Antiquité et fictions contemporaines (3)
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Voyages et voyageurs (3)
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Réception des historiens anciens et fabrique de l’histoire (5)
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La philosophie ancienne : réception et travaux en cours (1)
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L’atelier des doctorants (1)
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Comptes rendus et notes de lecture
Christian Wohlers hat seine Reihe von exzellenten Neuübersetzungen der Hauptwerke René Descartes‘ um den Discours de la Méthode ergänzt. Das „vielleicht berühmteste Vorwort der Philosophie“ erstrahlt in neuem Glanz.
Weiterlesen
Januar 14, 2012, 5:57 pm, der rechte rand,
134,
Ausgabe.
EDITORIAL NR. 134
VERANTWORTUNG OHNE VERANTWORTUNG
EINMAL UM DEN BLOCK
REGIERUNG DER NATIONALEN EINHEIT?
Business historians generally agree that European cartels, while proliferating after 1918, favoured the international spread of technology. Moving along similar lines, economist Baumol has argued that big firms sell proprietary technology and cooperate on the technological front with the double fold aim to make a profit and to internalise knowledge spillovers. This article qualifies both claims suggesting a less optimistic view about the effects of the visible hand of international cartels. The history of the rayon industry, a high-tech sector until 1940, shows that cartels tended to inflate the price of borrowed technology and to influence the direction of technology flows. Another important conclusion is that the successful adoption of technology did not necessarily translate into expansion for the receptor firms since the cartel leaders, i.e. the licensors, tended either to retain vital information or to check the growth of the licensees by attaching certain commercial limitations to the sale of know-how.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 206-224
- Authors
- Valerio Cerretano, School of History and Cultures, Arts Building, University of Birmingham
During the last decades of the 19th century and the interwar period the Belgian Catholic Church entered into an intense dialogue with the entrepreneurial milieu. Building on older networks several Catholic entrepreneurs’ organizations were created. These structures developed intricate discourses, confronting business men with their social responsibility, shaping and affirming their identity and worldview in contrast to that of their liberal counterparts. Belgian Catholic entrepreneurs associations radiated a particular organizational culture, exuding a genteel atmosphere of a socio-religious debating club. But they also advocated a clear Christian identity, in line with Catholic social teachings and neo-scholastic philosophy. Only a (re) Christianization of the business world, so they argued, would provide a durable solution to existing social tensions. The bon patron catholique had to become an instrument of moral regeneration and social renovation. Members were urged to highlight the Catholic identity of their company, to guide and monitor the families that worked for them and to offer clear and regular support to social works. The discourse of the Belgian Catholic entrepreneurial organizations on the social responsibility of their members would only slowly move away from its paternalist roots. Nonetheless in the interwar period a more structural vision of social relations arose, resulting in a closer collaboration with the Christian workers movement. This prepared the Belgian Catholic entrepreneurs’ organizations for their leading role in the post-war welfare state and its systems of interest mediation and collective bargaining.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 163-186
- Authors
- Peter Heyrman, KADOC, Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Leuven, Belgium
East German companies in the process of transformation from 1935 to 1995. A new research area of modern business history
The history of companies in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) has been neglected until very recently. Historical research on the East German economy continues to explain the economic decline of the GDR with the structural deficits rooted in the planned economy. Based on the assumption that under those conditions companies neither had much freedom of movement nor much economic influence, their role and history is considered marginal at best, irrelevant at worst. The present article challenges this assumption. Its authors argue that businesses played an important role in keeping alive and stabilizing the East German economy, and that without them the GDR as a political system could not have survived for forty years. To investigate the economic and political relevance of companies in the history of the GDR, an overarching research program is necessary, one that allows for a methodologically refined, empirically anchored analysis of East German business history. The authors offer a suggestion for such a research program called Business History as Transformation History. Arguing that the procedural dimension of business history needs to be taken into consideration more systematically, they challenge the political caesura of 1945 and 1989, which are traditionally employed in historical research on the GDR, and call for historical studies that investigate the time between 1935 and 1995 in order to do justice to the economic, structural, and local conditions and constraints under which the companies operated. Similarly, the far-reaching transformation businesses experienced in the 70s, a phenomenon that has been discussed with regard to Western Europe recently, should receive due attention. Finally, the authors argue that the economic performance of East German companies should be analyzed not isolated but in the context of national and international trade relations, both within and outside the COMECON. The article begins with an outline of the research program for business history as transformation history. It then presents three case studies to exemplify the research agenda, each of them analyzing different phases of transformation.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 187-205
- Authors
- Veit Damm, Saarbrücken (Damm), Bielefeld (Schulz), Dresden (Steinberg und Wölfel)
- Ulrike Schulz, Saarbrücken (Damm), Bielefeld (Schulz), Dresden (Steinberg und Wölfel)
- Swen Steinberg, Saarbrücken (Damm), Bielefeld (Schulz), Dresden (Steinberg und Wölfel)
- Sylvia Wölfel, Saarbrücken (Damm), Bielefeld (Schulz), Dresden (Steinberg und Wölfel)
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 248-251