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A Collège de France - CNRS co-production Summary In his opening lecture, Yves Coppens pays tribute to three great figures in prehistory (Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Breuil and André Leroi-Gourhan), describing their respective work and contributions to the …

Abstract In the space of a single generation, we have destroyed more than all the generations that preceded us since the invasions of late Antiquity. I feel a sense of solidarity with this long chain of men and women from the mists of time who have handed …

Summary It would be a mistake to think that Africa remained on the sidelines of world history until it was opened up by colonization, just as it would be a mistake to believe that nothing happened there that wasn't introduced from the outside. This great …

Abstract Indianists must stop defining themselves solely by reference to India, and think of themselves in terms of disciplines: Indianism is merely the application of the human sciences to a specific region of the world. To be a historian of ancient …

What I wanted and tried to do : to pose the question of poetry as a witness to its own time   : to this end, to analyze the paths of poetic creation in the great works of the past -   recognized in their difference thanks to historical works   - but also …

Abstract In 1637, Descartes revolutionized geometry : by associating three coordinates with each point in space, he laid the foundations for algebraic geometry. This geometry is known as " commutative " : the product of two quantities does not depend on …

Abstract The brain is a machine that processes information, records it and gives orders like a computer. All its functions, however noble, result exclusively from the assembly of cellular elements, their interactions and the signals received from the …

Abstract It is above all as a historian, concerned with the concrete data of the evolution of Chinese society, that I intend to approach the history of ideas, conceptions and intellectual currents in China. The time has passed when Chinese history was …

In the West of the 16th-18th   centuries, what were the reciprocal relationships between the religious behavior of a community recognized as significant, its mental tools, its conceptual grid, its scale of values, and its type of emotionality  ? The aim …