Fighting Hegemony, Saving the Event: Why Theologise with Jean-François Lyotard and Postmodern Philosophy?

Jean - François Laslier and M . Remzi

As the readers of this journal may not ignore, Approval Voting (AV) is a voting system where voters can “approve” as many candidates as they want and the winner is the candidate approved by the largest number of voters. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a very large number of studies have been devoted to various aspects of this voting ...

jean-francois lyotard and emergence of postmodern social sciences: theoretical contexts and paradigm foundations

the development of postmodern perspective has been considered as one of the most challenging approaches over a few last decades. many scholars maintain that postmodernism could be defined as fourth paradigms of social sciences after positivist, interpretive and critical social science. the emergence and development of this novel approach has great influences on the basics and essentials of many...

M. Jean-François DELMAS directeur de thèse

In this thesis, we study continuum tree-valued processes. First, we define anabstract framework for these processes, by constructing a metric on the space of locally com-pact, complete R-trees, endowed with a locally finite Borel measure. This topology, calledGromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov topology, allows for the definition of tree-valued Markov pro-cesses. We then give a new const...

[Jean François Marie Aicardi (1926-2015)].

Logos and Ethos: The Civil Religion in the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This article explores the concept of civil religion from the perspective of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It starts with a discussion of the essence of sovereignty as the implementation of general will, which, the author explains, is manifested in the obedience of the laws. The article then discusses the way in which, in Rousseau’s view, institutional mechanisms work and thereupon explores how he envi...