François Furet’s contribution to French history continues to incite controversy and polemic. His engagement with the French left and his ability to stir up venomous reactions from the left has obscured his real contribution and his status as a left-wing intellectual. Fresh readings of many of his lesser-known writings and a new reflection on little-known private archives helps us to understand how Furet thought of political history as being essentially bound up with a theoretical reflection on the relationship between the past, the present and the future, without which there could be no good history. Furet was a witness to the collapse of a left-wing culture that had defined him. His intellectual and political itinerary resonated with the upheavals that affected the French and European left at the end of the twentieth century.
Relating mercantile failure is harder and less commonly attempted than describing success. This article outlines the story of a mercantile failure in the French Atlantic World at the age of Revolution, examining closely the text and context of an autobiographical account by François Belon....
This article demonstrates how in the 1960s–1970s the French author Jocelyne François develops, in her fiction, a different approach to social relationality and temporality. This conceptualisation of temporality and resistance to homogenising powers is best described using the notion ...
In Systems Biology, an increasing collection of models of various biological processes is currently developed and made available in publicly accessible repositories, such as biomodels.net for instance, through common exchange formats such as SBML. To date, however, there is no general method to r...
Guided capsule endoscopy could pave the way for the future of endoscopic examination of the stomach, according to the findings of a feasibility study by Jean-Francois Rey and colleagues. Given the number of gastric examinations performed worldwide, in addition to the invasive nature of gastroscop...
This article examines the patriarchalist ideas of Robert Filmer (1588–1653) under a new light, both conceptually and contextually. Against the grain of mainstream historiography whereby Filmer is a quintessentially English character on the stage of seventeenth-century political thinking, the ar...
Technology seems to follow a different type of evolutionary dynamic when compared with biological systems. As pointed out by Francois Jacob, evolution takes place by means of extensive tinkering and does not foresee the future. Engineers will typically have a well-defined purpose and are not—in...
During the first few decades of the twentieth century, legal theory on both sides of the Atlantic was characterized by a tremendous amount of skepticism toward the private law concepts of property and contract. In the United States and France, Oliver Wendell Holmes and François Gény led the cha...
Earlier publications by our group have reported the major contributions of Beauchêne fils, Edme François Chauvot de Beauchêne (1778–1830), a prosector, and surgeon in Paris. These included a variety of firsts: the finding of an intraneural ganglion cyst, the description of the exploded skull...
The article reconsiders the Davos-debate between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer to reassess the discussion of interrelations and differences of their philosophies. The focus is the fecund motifs of thought that each philosopher presents. These are worked out by dispersing the contexts. Heide...
Virginia Tech's Shane Ross and Francois Lekien of Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, report findings on the flow of particles that will aid in understanding and controlling global-scale phenomena, such as pollution dispersion in the atmosphere and the ocean. For instance...
