Les nouvelles etudes rassemblees sous ce titre, Verite scientifique et verite philosophique dans l'oeuvre d'Alexandre Koyre, sont issues du colloque international organise a l'Universite Paris Ouest-Nanterre en fevrier 2012 et dont nous publions ici les actes. L'ouvrage se propose d'elucider les positions philosophiques defendues par Alexandre Koyre (1892-1964) dans ses principales recherches en histoire des idees scientifiques et philosophiques, tout en mettant a l'epreuve cette declaration qui est au centre de son oeuvre: Je suis, en effet, profondement convaincu, ...] que l'influence des conceptions philosophiques sur le developpement de la science a ete aussi grande que celle des conceptions scientifiques sur le developpement de la philosophie. Assurement, les ecrits d'Alexandre Koyre en histoire de la physique, de l'astronomie et de la cosmologie ont reussi a montrer, au moins pour la science classique, l'etroite intrication de la science, de la metaphysique et de la theologie au sein de la pensee. C'est surement la que son oeuvre exerca sa plus grande influence sur le monde des chercheurs en histoire et philosophie des sciences, meme si de recentes decouvertes historiques ont permis d'apporter de nouvelles lumieres sur ses sujets favoris depuis sa disparition en 1964. Les quatorze contributions qui figurent ici ont ete reparties suivant trois axes principaux qui concernent respectivement: l'itineraire philosophique et les engagements intellectuels de Koyre, les perspectives epistemologiques et methodologiques en histoire de la pensee scientifique et enfin les etudes concernant plus particulierement l'histoire de la philosophie. Ces contributions sont l'oeuvre des specialistes suivants: Paola Zambelli, Gerard Jorland, Annarita Angelini, Walter Tega, Joel Biard, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Anastasios Brenner, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Frederic Fruteau de Laclos, Massimo Ferrari, Pietro Redondi, Emmanuel Faye, Alexandre Guimaraes Tadeu de Soares, Jean Seidengart. L'ouvrage s'acheve avec la publication d'un cours inedit qu'Alexandre Koyre donna en avril 1946 intitule: Galilee . Ce document donne une idee de ce que fut la parole vivante de cet historien des sciences aupres d'un public de non-specialistes.
English summary: Does the way that we act and the nature of our acts implicate who we are? This book explores the ethical and metaphysical problems that come with free will and the ability to act, tracing philosophical analyses of the question from Antiquity to today. French description: La maniere dont nous agissons et, plus profondement, la nature de nos actes engagent-elles ce que nous sommes? Ce livre repose sur un postulat: si l'homme est libre, ses actions ne s'en rapportent pas moins a ce qu'il est, ou encore a sa nature. Des lors, la question de l'acte libre ne releve pas seulement, et peut-etre pas d'abord de l'ethique, mais se nourrit tout aussi bien de la problematique metaphysique de l'etre, entendu comme etre en acte. A travers ses vicissitudes au long de l'Antiquite tardive puis du Moyen Age arabe et latin, ce livre fait l'histoire du concept d'acte, dont la signification se dedouble pour s'entendre comme actualite et activite. Anciennement, l'acte se determinait comme eclosion, ou accomplissement d'une potentialite presente en la substance; il en viendra bientot a se penser comme effectuation, c'est-a-dire comme effet de sa production par un autre. Or si les etants du monde sont produits par un autre, leur etre, singulierement l'etre de l'homme, refere aussi a une activite. Advenu a l'etre par l'oeuvre d'un autre, l'homme agit librement sur le cours des evenements, et le modifie. A travers l'histoire complexe du concept d'acte, les pages qu'on va lire montrent comment emerge puis s'impose la notion (centrale pour les temps modernes) d'une contingence radicale du monde, et de l'action humaine en ce monde. Penser la liberte ne dispense pas d'interroger la nature, en son irreductible complexite.
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Book Band: Dark Red - Ideal for ages 10+An exciting adventure set in revolutionary France which tells the true story of a swashbuckling hero Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, whose mother was an enslaved African woman and whose father was a French noble.Alex is happy living with his brothers and sister on his father's farm on Haiti but his father wants to go back to France and can't afford to take his mixed-race children with him. Soon, Alex must fight for his freedom... and that of France.From a slave on the streets of Port au Prince to a general in the French army, the dramatic true story of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas' life (the inspiration for his son's book The Three Musketeers) is brought to life by award-winning author, Catherine Johnson. Featuring exciting black-and-white illustrations by Rachel Sanson, this book is perfect for children who are developing as readers. The Bloomsbury Readers series is packed with book-banded stories to get children reading independently in Key Stage 2 by award-winning authors like double Carnegie Medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean and Waterstones Prize winner Patrice Lawrence. With engaging illustrations and online guided reading notes written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), this series is ideal for home and school. For more information visit www.bloomsburyreaders.com.'Any list that brings together such a quality line up of authors is going to be welcomed … Bloomsbury Readers are aimed squarely at children in Key Stage 2 and designed to support them as they start reading independently and while they continue to gain confidence and understanding.' Books for Keeps
ALEXANDRE DUMAS BY ANDREW LANG There is no real biography of Alexandre Dumas. Nobody has collected and sifted all his correspondence, tracked his every movement, and pursued him through newspapers and legal documents. Letters and other papers (if they have been preserved) should be as abundant in the case of Dumas as they are scanty in the case of Moli re. But they are left to the dust of unsearched offices; and it is curious that in France so little has been systematically written about her most popular if not her greatest novelist. Many treatises on one or other point in the life and work of Dumas exist, but there is nothing like Boswell's Johnson or Lockhart's Scott. The M moires by the novelist himself cover only part of his career, Les Enfances Dumas; and they bear the same resemblance to a serious conscientious autobiography as Vingt Ans Apr s bears to Mr. Gardiner's History of England. They contain facts, indeed, but facts beheld through the radiant prismatic fancy of the author, who, if he had a good story to tell, dressed it up "with a cocked hat and a sword," as was the manner of an earlier novelist. The volumes of travel, and the delightful work on Dumas's domestic menagerie, Mes B tes, also contain personal confessions, as does the novel, Ange Pitou, with the Causeries, and other books. Fortunately Dumas wrote most about his early life, and the early life of most people is more interesting than the records of their later years. In its limitation to his years of youth, the M moires of Dumas resemble that equally delightful book, the long autobiographical fragment by George Sand. Both may contain much Dichtung as well as Wahrheit: at least we see the youth of the great novelists as they liked to see it themselves. The M moires, with Mes B tes, possess this advantage over most of the books, that the most crabbed critic cannot say that Dumas did not write them himself. In these works, certainly, he was unaided by Maquet or any other collaborator. They are all his own, and the essential point of note is that they display all the humour, the goodness of heart, the overflowing joy in life, which make the charm of the novels. Here, unmixed, unadulterated, we have that essence of Dumas with which he transfigured the tame "copy" drawn up by Maquet and others under his direction. He told them where to find their historical materials, he gave them the leading ideas of the plot, told them how to block out the chapters, and then he took these chapters and infused into them his own spirit, the spirit which, in its pure shape, pervades every page of the M moires. They demonstrate that, while he received mechanical aid from collaborators, took from their hands the dry bones of his romances, it was he who made the dry bones live. He is now d'Artagnan, now Athos, now Gorenflot, now Chicot, -all these and many other personages are mere aspects of the immortal, the creative Alexandre.
