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This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing critical paradigms in the study of Pynchon's work. In a critical landscape in which the postmodernism of Pynchon's earlier novels has been thoroughly established, this collection presents fresh analytical methodologies and new perspectives on Pynchon's fiction informed by the more expansive, globalized, and politicized network models that undergird recent advances in American literary theory and criticism. The New Pynchon Studies illustrates how Pynchon's later novels, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge, demand a re-orientation of our approach to his entire oeuvre and enables readers to trace lines of continuity and development in his writing from V. to the present day.

Pynchon, Thomas --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation.

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En 1474, Isabelle de Castille devient enfin reine, après bien des péripéties. Elle a épousé quelques années auparavant Ferdinand, héritier de la couronne d'Aragon dont il héritera en 1479. À eux deux, ils réunifient ainsi l'Espagne et deviennent "les rois catholiques". À eux deux seulement ? Non. Dans leur ombre agit un moine bénédictin particulièrement austère et dévot : Tomas de Torquemada. Issu d'une famille de juifs convertis quelques générations auparavant, il est convaincu que les royaumes de Castille et d'Aragon doivent être sauvés des hérétiques. Il y consacrera sa longue vie. Véritable stratège politique, il va réussir par l'intermédiaire royal à récupérer les pleins pouvoirs de la part de l'Église catholique sur les tribunaux de l'Inquisition. Il les unifiera dès lors et en deviendra le chef suprême durant quinze ans. Premier Grand Inquisiteur espagnol, ombre noire du pouvoir, il va donner une dimension brutale et violente aux jugements et persécutera les juifs espagnols sans relâche. Sous sa gouvernance, l'Inquisition aura un pouvoir sans précédent. Il mourra à 77 ans après avoir rédigé le Code de l'inquisiteur qui sera utilisé durant des années. Il serait responsable de 2 000 exécutions et de 100 000 cas examinés au cours de sa carrière.

Inquisition --- Torquemada, Tomás de, --- Espagne --- Histoire --- Biography --- Inquisition - Espagne - Bandes dessinées --- Torquemada, Tomás de, - 1420-1498 - Bandes dessinées --- Espagne - Histoire - 1479-1516 (Ferdinand et Isabelle) - Bandes dessinées --- Torquemada, Tomás de, - 1420-1498

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The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.

Hobbes, Thomas, --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Gobbs, Tomas, --- Hobbs, Thomas, --- Gobbes, Tomas, --- T. H. --- H., T. --- Hobs, Thomas, --- Hobbes, --- Hobbes, Thom. --- Hobbius, Thomas, --- Hobbuzu, Tomasu, --- Huobusi, --- Hobbs, Tho. --- הובס, תומס, --- 霍布斯, --- ホッブズ, トマス,

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On ne saurait donc trop remercier l'abbé Matthieu Raffray, de l'Institut du Bon Pasteur, enseignant à l'Université pontificale de saint Thomas d'Aquin à Rome, de l'heureuse initiative qu'il a prise de réunir à Bordeaux, à Pâques 2014, quelques représentants de choix des diverses « familles » thomistes francophones pour les inviter à préciser leur position sur ce thème, laissant au public la tâche ingrate de se faire ensuite une opinion. Au point de vue « sociologique », ce colloque et le présent ouvrage - qui en recueille les actes, repris et augmentés de nouvelles contributions - attestent que, si le thomisme francophone ne peut prétendre aujourd'hui rivaliser avec la vigueur de son cousin anglosaxon, tant les institutions intellectuelles catholiques sont chez nous exsangues, il n'a pas abandonné la partie et sait encore faire fructifier le riche patrimoine dont il est l'héritier. Ils attestent aussi la possibilité et la fructuosité d'un louable et catholique dialogue intellectuel entre ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler des « sensibilités ecclésiales » assez diverses".

Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Thomism --- Thomistic philosophy --- Philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Thomas, --- Akʻvineli, Tʻoma, --- Akvinietis, Tomas, --- Akvinskiĭ, Foma, --- Aquinas, --- Aquinas, Thomas, --- Foma, --- Thomas Aquinas, --- Tʻoma, --- Toma, --- Tomas, --- Tomasu, --- Tomasu, Akwinasu, --- Tomasz, --- Tommaso, --- Tʻovma, --- Тома, Аквінський, --- תומאס, --- תומס, --- اكويني ، توما --- 2 THOMAS AQUINAS --- 2 THOMAS AQUINAS Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS AQUINAS --- Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS AQUINAS --- Ākvīnās, Tūmās, --- اكويني، توما, --- آکويناس، توماس,

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This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the author argues that not only should we expect innovations to fail but that there are good reasons to want them to fail. Using Edison's laboratory notebooks, written as he worked and before he knew the outcome we see the many false starts, wrong directions and failures that he worked through on his way to producing revolutionary inventions. While Edison's strengths in exploiting failure made him the icon of American inventors, they could also be liabilities when he moved from one field to another. Not only is this book of value to readers with an interest in the history of technology and American invention, its insights are important to those who seek to innovate and to those who employ and finance them.

Edison, Thomas A. --- Ai-ti-sheng, --- Edison, Thomas Alva, --- Ėdison, Tomas Alʹva, --- Ėdisson, Tomas-Alʹva, --- トーマス· A ·エジソン, --- Philosophy. --- Technology—History. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- History of Technology. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities