Le temps du travail by Luca Rimoldi

“…Thus, in this article I will try, through critical analysis, to show how stories of trade unionists in their work and their involvement in trade union education reveal a continuous exchange between the public and private sphere, individual and collective dimension moreover, I will try to demonstrate how the trade union memory could be used to trace the biography of a place transformed by modernity.…”
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Échangeur no 9 by Éric Chauvier

“…By making it possible to identify and typify certain peri-urban places which reveal the repressed historical and economic planning process in cities, the notion of "critical landscape" also reveals our uninhibited false relationship with modernity. I will use the observations made on a site located in the north-western periphery of Bordeaux in Saint-Médard-en-Jalles in Gironde. …”
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Individualisme, religion, spiritualité avec Marcel Gauchet :Quels enjeux et quels possibles pour l’éducation ? by Camille Roelens

“…This article uses the philosophical work of Marcel Gauchet to consider what the contributions of religions to the spiritual dimension to individuation and individualization could be in democratic modernity. One of Gauchet's main theses is what he calls the exit of the religion. …”
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Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato by Giovanna Dealtry

“…In an era dominated by terms such as "localism" and "globalization", which show the importance contemporaneity gives to space, would it still be worthy to dedicate on eself to a body of work that aims to pursue the last fifty years of Brazilian history from a perspective that, initially, seems to favor focusing one's gaze precisely on modernity's time paradigms? This is one of the questions that this article on the literary project Inferno provisório, by LuizRuffato, seeks to answer. …”
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« I am content with tentativeness from day to day » : Thomas Hardy et le parti pris poétique du tâtonnement by Laurence Estanove

“…This constitutes a very personal form of literary impressionism which bears testimony to the modernity of Hardy’s writing, though outside the realm of modernism per se.…”
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Écrire au réconfort de Dieu. La patrimonialisation des savoirs administratifs des monarchies marocaine et tunisienne sous le Protectorat by Antoine Perrier

“…Through two case studies (Sultan’s dahirs of appointment and Beys court) based on Arabic sources, this paper shows how Sovereigns and servants reinvented this patrimony and why resistance against colonial order was neither only a question of “modernity” vs. “tradition”, nor the monopoly of nationalist parties.…”
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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. “The Last of the Valerii” participates in a literary tradition of the archaeological fantastic that developed alongside the rise of classical archaeology as a tool of Altertumswissenschaft, in which authors employ narratives of the return of material objects from antiquity in order to explore difficult questions to do with transgressive desires, repression and sexual identity.…”
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Renaissance des potagers, naissance d’une profession by Anne Luxereau

“…They managed to mix an old know-how to a new one brought by modern agronomy. A new job was born and the producers turned to modernity. …”
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‘Valorisation’. For a renewed vitality of the monuments by Giovanni Carbonara

“…After an introduction comparing the concepts of ‘restoration’ and ‘valorisation’, we go on to examine the limits of modern restoration, in a critical and conservative sense. …”
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SOME METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE SOVIET EPOCH AT THE RUSSIAN HISTORY COURSES FOR HIGHER SCHOOL by Alexander B. Bezborodov

“…The author reveals the methods of research of the Soviet reality and the channels of its influence on the modernity. He also defines the influence of the Soviet epoch symbols on the modern Russian daily occurrence. …”
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Symboliczne praktyki edukacji. Doświadczenie A.S. Makarenki w postsocjalistycznym dyskursie pedagogicznym by Aleksander Połonnikow

“…In this context the relation to tradition gains an intertextual character, constructed by it being referred to the context of modernity. The key function of such contextualisaion is the so-called re-symbolization. …”
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Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster by Catherine Lanone

“…Dracula engages with transmission in a dual way, turning Mina’s mind into a radio-system which the Count may switch on and off, whereas Van Helsing may reverse the signal and spy on the vampire; technology embodying modernity, from the phonograph to the typewriter or telegraph, may vanquish the Count’s archaic powers of transmission. …”
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About some limitations in researching the human being. Theological perspective by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“…In the classical tradition, a person is considered to be a substance. In modernity, John Locke brought forward the notion that social existence and consciousness are the most salient properties of a person, which brought about a possibility of renouncing one’s personhood because of a lack of some perceivable and observable traits. …”
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Chandigarh la Main ouverte : d’un urbanisme de plan à un urbanisme de vie by Enrico Chapel, Thierry Mandoul

“…This counterpoint to analyses that equate Chandigarh to the excesses of modern planning questions the relationships that the city's designers maintained with Indian civilization, and how certain appropriations by local residents played a part in shaping the initial urban project. …”
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Penser la musique, Écouter les images. Lectures de Cahiers d’art, Jazz et Documents sur le jazz et le cinéma américains by Diane Turquety

“…Marked by popular culture, the United States and the “exotic” touch embodied by the American black community, these entertainments were elevated to the rank of new forms of artistic expression, vectors of an ideal modernity. Jazz and talkies then became, gradually and in different ways, new objects of aesthetic study. …”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yoruba Case by J.D.Y. Peel

“…He argues that the Yoruba are constantly pressed towards olaju (modernity/development/progress) which makes cross-cutting communal belonging more salient, thus ensuring that the Yoruba constantly mobilize both religious and secular insti­tutions and processes in the all-embracing project of olaju. …”
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Reflexões teóricas acerca da “crise ambiental”: possibilidades de novas orientações para as políticas públicas ambientais by José Irivaldo Alves Oliveira Silva

“…Then it examines environmental issues in a risk society as characterized by Beck, or in reflexive modernity as described by Giddens.…”
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Lust, tranquillity and sensuality in French spa towns in the heyday of balneotherapy (the belle époque and the roaring twenties) by Marie-Eve Férérol

“…One was the expansion in bourgeois morality, and the other was the uncertain future at the turn of the 20th century (the advancing tide of modernity, presages of the 1st World War, etc.). Spa towns thus became ‘safety valves’ (Authier, 1997), another world, an escape from everyday life, where all sorts of transgressions were possible. …”
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Universal Typeface. Innovation without Style by Dario Russo

“…This article aims to highlight how the universal typeface, that today represents the ‘style’ of Modernity, was in the beginning innovation in its purest: a configuration aimed at effect, to achieve maximum result with minimum effort, both from an economic and technical-productive, and from a functional point of view, readability and visual perception; and how the most interesting aspect is not the form itself – re-proposed, equal to itself, for almost a century – but its underlying design principle.…”
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