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Abstract Algorithmic language is expressively rich enough to cope with the high descriptive complexity of the living world. Cellular circuits, schools of fish, flocks of birds, the transmission of rumors, crowd movements and political polarization are all …

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Following a brief discussion of my disqualifications as a scholar of Chinese law, I will discuss the "judgment (pan 判)" as a genre of literature. My starting point will be the negative assessment of the genre by Arthur Waley in his The Life and Times of …

Chemical composition of the deep mantle - investigation methods and challenges. Spin transitions, phase changes. Following on from lecture 3, we have presented the various stages in the study of the Pv → pPv transformation in magnetic perovskite from its …

Abstract La Prière sur l'Acropole , published in La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1876, then inserted in Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse in 1883, is, despite its complexity, one of Renan's most famous and popular texts. Numerous historians of literature and …

Abstract It was Léon Daudet who called Renan "the god of the Third Republic". How did Renan, who had long been a supporter of a constitutional monarchy, come to call himself a "morrow's republican" in 1878, after the May 16th victory that had converted …

Abstract Because of the personalities of the players, their respective magisteria and the importance of the issues at stake, the confrontation between Pius IX and Renan has something of what I would call the spine of the century. It can be read in the …

Abstract Renan's interest in "religious history", a term he understood in its broadest sense, was bound to lead him to tackle the question of Buddhism, at a time when studies in this field were progressing by leaps and bounds in Europe. Like most of his …

Abstract For reasons linked to the republican struggle and its revolutionary origins, the importance of religion in the political and intellectual history of nineteenth-century France has been overshadowed, and the figure of Renan has sunk into oblivion. …

Abstract In 1848, Ernest Renan abandoned the publication of L'Avenir de la science and began writing a thesis on Averroès. Published in 1852, Averroès et l'averroïsme forms a sort of triptych with De philosophia peripatetica apud syros , published the …

Abstract It is to Renan that specialists in cuneiform writing owe their name of Assyriologists. However, the confrontation of the ideas Renan had set out as early as 1855 in his famous Histoire générale des langues sémitiques with the results of …

Abstract If Ernest Renan's interest in Semitic epigraphy is well known, what about Greco-Latin epigraphy, the only one that could really provide him with useful information to complete the picture he wanted to paint of the beginnings of Christianity in …

Abstract The long Histoire des origines du christianisme is a strange book, which certainly exerted a great influence on people's minds, but despite its willingness to parallel the history of Judaism and Christianity with that of Rome, it was almost never …

Abstract Renan's opening lecture caused a scandal. He spoke of the man Jesus, provoking the ire of ecclesiastical circles. But Renan also endeavored to bring the results of critical exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, as practiced in German-speaking countries, …