It is evident to anyone who is at all familiar with the documents and witnesses of the times that Aztec society at the time of the discovery of Mexico appears to be intensely religious, that all public and private life was invaded, so to speak, by rites and dominated by beliefs. But what exactly was the place of religion and its ministrants in the hierarchy of powers? To what degree was the priestly function interwoven with that of government and the (...) administration of the city? Can the regime of ancient Mexico be described as a theocracy? To answer these questions, it is of no small use, first, to go back to the period preceding the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. (shrink)

Terrible ethics -- The ethic of terror -- Phares; or, divisible sovereignty -- The logic of sovereignty -- A Sadean community -- Materia in the critique of autonomy -- Three women, three bombs -- Distracted republic.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

During the seminar 'Time and Death penalty', which took place on November 14th 2000 in Triest's Department of Philosophy, Jacques Derrida presented a summary of his lectures of Paris and Irvine: 'Responsibility Problems. Forgiveness, Perjury and Death Penalty'. In Derrida's opinion the philosophical thought has never been - historically - against death penalty. Philosophy has either shown agreement towards its principle or it has remained silent. The aim of deconstruction is to confute the philosophical principles in favour of death (...) penalty , therefore producing a philosophically relevant thought capable of facing such a complex and delicate ethical-political situation. For this purpose Derrida relates the issue of reason to the issue of a 'supernatural world', in which the philosophical responsibility of a different form of reasoning is located. The obvious and immediate comparison is with Kant's position, whose inner contradictions are closely analysed by Derrida. The second reference is the psychoanalytical tradition, which Derrida profusely uses in order to show the equivocal nature of concepts such as 'cruelty' and 'exception' that characterise the juridical and political discourse on death penalty; opaque concepts which constitute its hidden foundation. (shrink)

Une exploration méthodique et informée du substantif " inhumain " tel qu'il s'est constitué comme négation de l'" humain ". Depuis l'antiquité grecque et biblique jusqu'au questionnement contemporain sur le crime contre l'humanité et l'humanitaire, l'ouvrage propose un panorama stimulant, dense et clair.

Si le nombre permet de comparer d’une manière qui est pleinement significative les philosophies transcendantales de Kant et de Husserl, c’est parce qu’il peut faire apparaître à la fois ce qu’elles ont eu en commun dans le relevé des emplacements qu’elles ont attribués aux différents facteurs constitutifs de la subjectivité transcendantale et ce qui les a fait néanmoins diverger l’une de l’autre dans l’établissement du réseau des affinités où elles ont dû aussi les faire entrer en deçà comme au-delà de (...) ce dispositif central. (shrink)

Pour exprimer la foi chrétienne, certains théologiens n’hésitent pas à reprendre des notions scientifiques comme éléments du discours théologique. L’article s’interroge sur l’apport et l’opportunité de cette pratique à partir d’un exemple, la notion de complémentarité au sens où N. Bohr l’a définie en physique. In order to get a theological discourse adapted to the cultural environment, several theologians take up scientific notions. In this paper are examined the interest and the impact of this way of doing theology considering an (...) example, the complementarity as defined by N. Bohr. (shrink)