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‎SENS DU PLACEMENT -LE- SEGREGATION RESIDENTIELLE ET SEGREGATION SCOLAIRE‎

‎RAISONS D'AGIR/LIBER‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782912107435‎

‎"Paysage et architecture, essai de définition des""normes esthétiques"" applicables au milieu rural. Cahier d'urbanisme, N° 40-41. Collection : Chantiers dans le monde."‎

‎Bruxelles, Editions Art et Technique, 1965. 16 x 21, 68 pp., nombreuses figures et croquis, 2 illustrations, 13 figures, broché, très bon état (cachet d'ex-propriétaire).‎

‎Le compte de Mirobert se porte comme un charme - Voyage dans la noblesse française‎

‎Olivier Orban. 1987. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 287 pages. quelques rousseurs sur les tranches.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle‎

‎Jean-François Comment - 100 ans. ‎

‎Porrentruy, Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu / Fondation Jean-François Comment, 2019. Fort, grand et lourd volume in-4, cartonnage décoré, jaquette couleurs. En très belle condition. Plus de 430 reproductions d'oeuvres sur toile et sur papier, 41 vitraux, des photographies, des documents d'archives et 7 planches dépliantes. ‎

‎Toutes les périodes de l’œuvre de Jean-François Comment sont ici restituées, des débuts, vers le milieu des années 1930, jusqu’aux dernières toiles de 2002. ‎

‎Le livre noir du libéralisme. ‎

‎Vevey, Editions de l'Aire, 1996. In-8 broché, couverture noire (eh oui). Quelques illustrations en noir par Leiter. ‎

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‎La république et canton du Jura. ‎

‎Delémont, Chancellerie d'Etat, 1991. In-4, pleine toile titrée, jaquette couleurs. Abondamment illustré. Vignette contrecollée sur garde, mentionnant que cet exemplaire fut offert par le parlement jurassien à Hervé Burdet, Président du Grand Conseil de la République et Canton de Genève. ‎

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‎Des siècles d'histoire pour une jeune république - Les insitutions - Le panorama économique - Le cadre de vie. ‎

‎Futuropolice Nouvelle - Complet en 24 volumes. 1.1- In the basket / 1.2 - Groom / 1.3 - Le maître chanteur bienveillant / 1.4 - La vengeance de Nitocris / 2.1 - Pur Colombie / 2.2. - Le plongeon / 2.3 - Le chat du sergent / 2.4 - Horreur pastorale / 3.1 - Diacétylmorphine / 3.2 - Squelette... fais cliqueter tes vieux os desséchés / 3.3 - La trappe étoilée / 3.4 - La Toison d'Or / 4.1 - Look funèbre / 4.2 - La petite maison / 4.3 - Journal local / 4.4. - Une aventure à Brownville / 5.1 - La Veuve Flicot / 5.2 - Rira bien qui mourra le dernier / 5.3 - Au nom du père / 5.4 - L'âme d'un agent de police / 6.1 - De parfaits petits crimes / 6.2 - Pourvu que tu en crèves / 6.3 - Un parfum bleu sombre / 6.4 - On ne peut pas tout avoir. ‎

‎ Futuropolis, collection Futuropolice Nouvelle, 1983-1986. 6 séries de 4 volumes in-12, soit 24 volumes, les 4 premières séries sous étui de carton (1 avec étiquette de l'éditeur). Etuis un brin poussiéreux, quelques dos très légèrement insolés. Chaque volume est accompagné de dessins en noir par un illustrateur de renom. ‎

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‎Une vraie réussite que cette collection dirigée par François Guérif , affreusement difficile à rassembler - cet ensemble constitue donc une jolie petite perle rare. ‎

‎Voltaire Rousseau. ‎

‎ Programme grand format de la pièce de théâtre conçue et mise en scène par Jean-François Prévand, présentée le 30 avril 1992 au Grand Casino de Genève. Premier plat orné d'une reproduction en couleurs de Diakonoff. ‎

‎Jean-Paul Farré jouait Voltaire, Jean-Luc Moreau, Rousseau. ‎

‎Gil Roman. Béjart Ballet Lausanne. ‎

‎Lausanne, Favre, 2013. In-4 à l'italienne, cartonnage photographique. Tout beau tout neuf. Nombreuses photographies in-texte. ‎

‎"Cinq ans après la disparition de son chorégraphe, vingt-cinq après sa fondation, le Béjart Ballet Lausanne est plus vivant que jamais. Tournées internationales, reprises du répertoire béjartien mais aussi créations de son directeur artistique, Gil Roman, ou de chorégraphes amis : le mouvement est perpétuel. Danseur de haut vol, chorégraphe de talent, disciple fidèle de Béjart auprès de qui il a dansé durant près de trente ans, Gil Roman a su tenir fermement la barre. C’est à lui que le BBL doit de figurer toujours parmi les compagnies internationales majeures. Durant des années, François Paolini a regardé travailler Maurice Béjart et Gil Roman. Ses « photographismes » documentent le passage de témoin." ‎

‎L'histoire suisse en un clin d'oeil. ‎

‎Genève, Zoé, 2018. In-12 broché, couverture illustrée. A l'état de neuf. Illustrations in-texte en noir et en couleurs. ‎

‎" Ce petit livre est écrit par une journaliste de talent, soucieuse de faire comprendre la Suisse, ce pays petit, mais si compliqué, à ceux qui viennent la visiter. De l'expliquer à travers les étapes de sa construction, c'est-à-dire son histoire. De montrer comment ce pays s'est forgé une âme, des cultures politiques, une prospérité qui doivent beaucoup à ses voisins mais qui lui confèrent son identité singulière. La journaliste a fait confiance aux historiens en s'entourant de leurs livres. Et l'historien que je suis est séduit par la lecture qu'elle en a faite, ingénieuse, libre et volontiers provocante. " Jean-François Bergier. ‎

‎Regards croisés sur Genève. ‎

‎Genève, Slatkine, 2017. In-8 broché, couverture illustrée. A l'état de neuf. ‎

‎"Vingt et un auteurs vous entraînent à travers Genève. Grâce à ces textes drôles, engagés, rêveurs, haletants, nostalgiques ou critiques, vous découvrirez des quartiers, des rues de Genève mais aussi les secrets, les traces d’histoires passées, les flux et les reflux qui agitent une ville. Puisse cette promenade littéraire inciter les lecteurs à ouvrir tout grand leurs yeux dans le sillage des écrivains dont ils partagent le quotidien !" ‎

‎Vitraux - Glasmalerei. ‎

‎Porrentruy, Fondation Jean-François Comment / Musée de l'Hôtel Dieu, 2009. In-4, cartonnage titré sous jaquette couleurs. Infimes frottements à la jaquette, pour le reste en belle condition. ‎

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‎Très bel ouvrage (bilingue) présentant l’ensemble des oeuvres conçues dans cette technique par l’artiste, ainsi que des versions préparatoires, et des textes d’Anne Schild (conservatrice du Musée de Porrentruy) et Bernard Comment (écrivain, fils de l’artiste). ‎

‎Analyse et Examen du Systeme des Philosophes Économistes. - [RARE EARLY CRITIQUE OF THE PHYSIOCRATIC SCHOOL]‎

‎Geneve, Barde & Compagnie, 1787. 8vo. In a fine contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands, red leather title label with gilt lettering and gilt ornamentations to spine. Boards recently repaired An extraordinarily fine copy. VI, 294 pp.‎

‎The rare first printing of abbé Legros's fierce critique of physiocratic doctrines. The physiocratic school and the dawning liberalism dictated that the economic order should espouse as closely as possible the concatenation of causes which make up the order of Nature and that everything is interconnected in the human world as it is in nature. In his own early critique of this physiocratic political economy, the traditionalist Legros developed attacks which can equally well apply to Quesnay, Spinoza, Diderot or d'Holbach: ""if this grand order, this concatenation [cet enchaînement], this general law of movement are eternal [...] if they are necessary, then they exist by themselves, by the necessity of their nature" they therefore replace the Divinity, they take its place" if the grand order is one and the only one, then there no longer is any moral order, any metaphysical order, any supernatural order."" (From the present work: Pp 142-3).Legros (1739-1790) studied theology and functioned as a priest in St.-Aebeul. He always published under the name ""d'un Solitaire"".Einaudi 3300" INED 2773 Masui P. 406.‎

‎Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au Décrets du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M.L.A. Milet-Mureau. 4 Vols. + Atlas.‎

‎Paris, Plassin, 1798. 8vo. and folio (44 x 30) cm. Textvolumes bound in 4 contemporary half calf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Tome-label on volume one eroded. Stamp on title-pages. (4),LXVIII,368(4),414316,(120 = Tables)"(4),328 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Atlasvolume bound in matching hcalf. Spine gilt and rubbed. Lower compartment of spine with wear and tear. Engraved portrai of Pérouse as frontispiece. Engraved pictorial titlepage with cupids and naviogational instruments (dessinée par Moreau le Jeune) and 69 engraved maps, plans and plates of which 32 are large folded engraved maps. Mild foxing to some parts of some maps, occasionally mild dampstains to some plates, marginal browning and some spotting. One map with a repair to folding.‎

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‎Second edition of the textvolumes (the first appeared the year before, 1797) and first edition of plates. (69 plates to the first, 70 to the second).""In 1785, Jean-Francois de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse, began preparations for an extensive sea voyage. His aim was to explore the Pacific regions of North and South America, Asia and Australasia. The sponsor of the expedition was the French king, Louis XVI, who was inspired by Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages. Louis ordered the French expedition to show the world that France could also dominate in ocean exploration. The expedition consisted of two ships - La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. They carried a total of 225 crew, officers and scientists. The ships left France in August 1785 and sailed south around Cape Horn. The voyage was expected to last four years. During the voyage, La Perouse sent back regular reports to France. The expedition mapped coastlines and explored uncharted areas of ocean. The expedition's scientists also spent time onshore at various ports, observing the habits and customs of local people and collecting natural history specimens. The expedition's progess until September 1787 was published by the French government as Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde [La Perouse's voyage around the world]. It was reprinted many times and translated into several languages. In 1791, when La Perouse had not returned to France or made any contact by dispatch, the French government sent out a search party. It was commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and consisted of two ships, Recherche and Esperance.... The complete disappearance of La Perouse caught the imagination of the European public. Songs, stories and plays were written about the possible fate of the expedition, including a popular play called, Perouse, or, The desolate island..... It was not until 1964 that the wreck of La Boussole was finally discovered on Vanikoro's reefs. At last the fate of La Perouse and his crew was known. The expedition is commemorated in the name of a Sydney suburb on the shores of Botany Bay - La Perouse."" (State Library of New South Wales, Website).Sabin, 38960.‎

‎Lettre a M. Dacier, relative a l'alpabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques, employés par les égyptiens pour inscrire sur leurs monuments les titres, les noms et les surnoms des souveraines grecs et romains. - [""I'VE GOT IT"" - CRACKING THE CODE OF THE HIEROGLYPHS]‎

‎Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Front wrapper slightly soiled and a bit of light dampstaining throughout. Upper corner worn. Six leaves with contemporary neat annotations, scholarly notes and drawings have been inserted at the front and the back - one double-leaf in front of the title-page (with one page of annotations with references to other works by Champollion), two leaves between plates III and IV (with two and a half pages of Greek-ancient Greek-Latin correspondence alphabet) and three leaves at the end, before the final blank (with five pages of an alphabet of the first Egyptian letters - very neatly drawn - and an alphabet-correspondence at the end). A very charming and interesting copy in the exceedingly rare original wrappers. Housed in a half morocco slipcase with gilt lettering to spine. (4), 52 pp. + 4 folded plates + 1 blank leaf.‎

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‎The scarce first edition, in the even scarcer original printed wrappers, of Champollion's milestone work, which announced for the first time the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, provided the key to reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, and gave birth to the entire field of modern Egyptology. This seminal work arguably constitutes the single most important philological work ever written. ""[...] in the actual state of Egyptian studies, when the monuments stream out from all sides and are collected by the rulers as by amateurs, and when also the scientists of all countries are eager to engage in serious research of their subject matter and are eager to penetrate deeply into the knowledge of these written monuments which must be used to explain all the others, I do not think I should wait till another time to bring to the scientists' attention and under your honourable auspices a short but important series of new developments, which naturally belong to my Memory on HIEROGLYPHIC writing, and which will doubtlessly save you the trouble that I have taken to establish what may be very serious errors about the different periods in the history of Egyptian art and the general administration of Egypt: for this is about the series of hieroglyphs that, making an exception to the general nature of the signs of this writing, have been equipped with the ability to EXPRESS THE SOUNDS of the words, and which are used in the inscriptions of the public monuments of Egypt, the TITLES, the NAMES, and the EPONYMS OF THE GREEK OR ROMAN SOVEREIGNS, who rule Egypt one after the other. Many certainties in the history of this celebrated piece of land must arise from this new result of my research, to which I have been led quite naturally."" (pp. 2-3) (*) says Champollion on the opening pages of the present letter to Mr. Dacier. And thus was laid the foundation of modern Egyptology. Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), known as the father of Egyptology, was by no means exaggerating when he stated the above - his letter to Mr. Dacier upon his new discoveries and the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs did change the study of Egypt and Egyptology more profoundly than any work before or after. Ever since the publication of the present work, Champollion has been credited with being the first to correctly and fully decipher the inscription on the famous Rosetta Stone, translating it, and breaking the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphic script"" it is in the present work that this milestone event in the history of modern man is announced first time, and it is due to this discovery that he is accepted as the founder of Scientific Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone, which dates back to 196 B.C was found in 1799 by French Troops and was immediately brought to England, where it has been ever since. The stone was (and is) of the utmost importance to the understanding of the Egyptian language, the principles of which were totally unknown up until this point. Because the hieroglyphic inscription on the stone is accompanied by a Greek and a Demotic one with the same contents (the commemoration of Ptolemy V's accession to the Egyptian throne), Champollion was able to crack the code of the hieroglyphs and to read a language that had not been read for far more than a millennium. Other very skilled linguists had worked on the decipherment of the hieroglyphic inscription simultaneously with Champollion, but they had all given up by the time that Champollion finally had his first true breakthrough. It came in 1822, when he successfully deciphered two Egyptian names, Ramses and Thutmos, written in hieroglyphic characters in temple cartouches. Champollion's discovery pointed to the fact that the Egyptian hieroglyphs functioned as an alphabet, a phonetic language and a system of symbols that could stand for words or concepts. ""And if the resembling signs of the two names render THE SAME SOUNDS on both cartouches, it is due to their ENTIRELY PHONETIC character."" (p. 7). (**) He succeeded in showing that the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs, and using his new discovery as a foundation, Champollion next turned his attention to common nouns, and deciphered the phrase ""birthday celebrations"" from the Rosetta Stone.""It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word"" says Champollion about the hieroglyphs, in the present work, after having established their meaning. He had finally cracked the code and was sure of it. He was so excited by this monumental discovery that he immediately ran to his brother's house, into his office, shouting the famous words ""Je tiens l'affaire!"", i.e. ""I've got it!"". It is said that he then fainted and spent the next five days in bed recovering. Shortly after his recovery, he began writing the letter for Mr. Dacier, outlining the discovery that laid the foundation for deciphering hieroglyphs, which was published later the same year, and a condensed version of which he presented as a speech at the Academie des Inscriptions. When he presented the speech, Thomas Young, who had given up breaking the code four years earlier, was also in the audience.In 1824, Champollion published a more comprehensive explanation of the hieroglyphic system, his famous ""Précis du Système Hieroglyphiques des Anciens Egyptiens"".Champollion was an extraordinary philologist, who, by the age of sixteen, besides Greek and Latin, mastered six ancient Middle Eastern languages, among these Coptic, the knowledge of which, unlike that of Egyptian, was never lost. As the first, Champollion realized the connection between the Coptic and the Egyptian language, and was able to identify many of the Egyptian words on the Rosetta Stone, as he could read them with their Coptic equivalents. He was the first to believe that both Demotic and Hieratic represented symbols, and not sounds as earlier presumed. After that he quickly realized that each single hieroglyph could represent a sign, and he began compiling a hieroglyphic alphabet. When publishing his letter to Mr. Dacier, he presented the fact that the hieroglyphs represented sounds as well as concepts, according to context. Champollion is thus the constructor of our present code of the hieroglyphic alphabet. ""Further study enabled him to discover the values of a number of syllabic hieroglyphic signs, and to recognize the use of hieroglyphs as determinatives. In cases where the Greek text supplied him with the meaning of hieroglyphs of which he did not know the phonetic values, his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to suggest values which he found subsequently to be substantially correct. Further reference to determinatives and the importance of parallel passages and texts will be made later on in his work. Between 1822-24 CHAMPOLLION worked incessantly, and was enabled to modify much of his earlier views, and to develop his Alphabet, -and he evolved some rudimentary principles of Egyptian Grammar..."" (Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, pp. 224-25). ""We have only been able to locate 4 auction records of the work within the last 40 years (ABPC & JAP), none of them in original wrappers.________________________________________________________________________________ORIGINAL FRENCH TEXT OF THE QUOTATIONS ABOVE (WHICH ARE IN OWN TRANSLATION):(*) ""[...] dans l'etat actual des études égyptiennes, lors-que de toutes parts les monuments affluent et sont recueilles par les souverains comme par les amateurs, lorsqu'aussi, et a leur sujet, les savants de tous les pays s'empressent de se livrer à de laborieuses recherches, et s'efforcent de pénétrer intimement dans la connaissance de ces monuments écrits qui doivent servir à expliquer tous les autres, je ne crois pas devoir remettre à un autre temps d'offrir à ces savants et sous vos honorables auspices, une courte mais importante série de faits nouveaux, qui appartient naturellement à mon Mémoire sur l'écriture HIÉROGLYPHIQUE, et qui leur épargnera sans doute la peine que j'ai prise pour l'établir, peut-être aussi de graves erreurs sur les époques diverses de l'histoire des arts et de l'administration générale de l'Égypte: car il s'agit de la série ges HIÉROGLYPHES qui, faisant exception à la nature générale des signes de cette écriture, étaient doués de la faculté d'EXPRIMER LES SONS des mots, et ont servi à inscrire sur les monuments publics de l'Égypte, les TITRES, les NOMS, et les SURNOMS DES SOUVERAINES GRECS OU ROMAINS qui la gouvernèrent successivement. Bien des certitudes pour l'histoire de cette contrée célèbre doivent naître de ce nouveau résultat des mes recherches, auquel j'ai été conduit très-naturellement."" (pp. 2-3).(**) ""et si les signes semblables dans ces deaux noms exprimaient dans l'un et l'autre cartouche LES MÊMES SONS, ils devaient constater leur nature ENTIÈREMENT PHONÉTIQUE."" (p.7).‎

‎Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale Précédées de considérations générales sur les premiers hommages rendus au Créteur" sur la corruption de la religion, l'établissement des cultes du solieil, de la lune, des p... - [THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM]‎

‎Paris, Brunot-Labbe, 1817. 8vo. Completely uncut in later, simple paper-wrappers. Light dusting to first and last leaf and only light occasional brownspotting. Overall a magnificent anf fresh copy, on good paper, and completely uncut.‎

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‎Scarce first edition of the first Western book about Buddhism and Buddha. ""Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches ""Sur Buddou ou Bouddou, Instituteur religieux de l'Asie Orientale"" (Paris, 1817)."" (from the review of Urs App's edition of the work from 1917).To commemorate Ozeray's groundbreaking work, an edition of it was published for its 200th anniversary, in 2017, with French-English parallel-text (the translation by Urs App). It is this edition that has made the book famous and re-introduced it as the pioneering classic that it is. ""In his 73-page introduction App presents and analyzes Ozeray's view of Buddhism and its founder. Tracing the author's main sources, he explains why his book deserves to be recognized as a pioneering contribution to Western knowledge about Buddhism and to global-scale comparative religion. Published just before the onset of academic research on Buddhism in Europe, Ozeray's work relied not on Christian missionary literature or romantic speculation but rather on figurative representations and reports furnished by ambassadors, travelers, and long-time residents in Asian countries. Due to its focus on living Buddhism as practised in numerous Asian countries, Ozeray's pioneering study is-in spite of its inevitable flaws-in many respects more congruent with modern field work than the majority of popular books on Buddhism that bend the spiritualism and esotericism shelves in today's bookstores.""‎

‎La Condition Postmoderne. Rapport sur le savoir. - [INTRODUCING ""POSTMODERNISM""]‎

‎(Paris), Minuet, (1979). 8vo. Original wrappers. Very minor soiling/sunning to wrappers and light underlinings to the first two pages. Otherwise a very nice, clean, and fresh copy. 109, (3) pp. + The Minuet advertisement leaf, dated September 1979, for the work laid in loose. Author's presentation inscription for Roger Parmentier to half-title, signed ""J-F Ly."".‎

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‎First edition, presentation-copy for the famous theologian Roger Parmentier, of the groundbreaking work that introduced the term ""post-modernism"" and fundamentally altered the interpretation and course of (post-)modern philosophy. With this book, Lyotard set the agenda for the discussion of the postmodern, which began in the 1980'ies. Lyotard's main point is that modern society has become postmodern because man no longer believes that scientific and technological progress will lead to freedom, prosperity, and enlightenment for all. For postmodern man, doubt is the dominating factor. The term ""postmodernism"" was previously only used by art critics, but with ""The Postmodern Condition"", Lyotard introduced it in philosophy, with the following quotation: ""Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives"", altering our comprehension of this most recent period of philosophy. The influential French theologian and priest Roger Parmentier (1914-2008) was born in the region of Paris. Later he moved with his family to Constantine in Algeria where he became interested in Judaism. In 1941 he moved to Paris wher he studied theology at the Protestant faculty. He founded a group that famously fought against Nazism and antisemistism. After the liberation he took part in the creation of Meetings between Jews and Christians, paving the way for the Jewesh-Christian Friendship (""l'Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne""). He continued his religious-political path throughout his life, is known as an important 20th century-intellectual, and is famous for his many theological writings. ""The term ""postmodern"" came into the philosophical lexicon with the publication of Jean-François Lyotard's ""La Condition Postmoderne"" in 1979 (English: ""The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge"", 1984), where he employs Wittgenstein's model of language games (see Wittgenstein 1953) and concepts taken from speech act theory to account for what he calls a transformation of the game rules for science, art, and literature since the end of the nineteenth century. He describes his text as a combination of two very different language games, that of the philosopher and that of the expert. Where the expert knows what he knows and what he doesn't know, the philosopher knows neither, but poses questions. In light of this ambiguity, Lyotard states that his portrayal of the state of knowledge ""makes no claims to being original or even true,"" and that his hypotheses ""should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the questions raised"" (Lyotard 1984, 7). The book, then, is as much an experiment in the combination of language games as it is an objective ""report.""On Lyotard's account, the computer age has transformed knowledge into information, that is, coded messages within a system of transmission and communication. Analysis of this knowledge calls for a pragmatics of communication insofar as the phrasing of messages, their transmission and reception, must follow rules in order to be accepted by those who judge them. However, as Lyotard points out, the position of judge or legislator is also a position within a language game, and this raises the question of legitimation. As he insists, ""there is a strict interlinkage between the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics"" (Lyotard 1984, 8), and this interlinkage constitutes the cultural perspective of the West. Science is therefore tightly interwoven with government and administration, especially in the information age, where enormous amounts of capital and large installations are needed for research."" (SEP). ‎

‎La Condition Postmoderne. Rapport sur le savoir. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎(Paris), Minuet, (1979). [Recte: Les Ateliers de Normandie, 1988]. 8vo. Original wrappers. A bit of minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise very fine. Apart from some underlinings to the first few pages, internally very nice and clean. 109, (3) pp. Author's presentation-inscription ""pour Jen,/ avec ironie/ et myopathie/ J-F Lyotard/ Sharlony [?]/ Janvier 1991"". ‎

‎Lovely presentation-copy of a later issue of the groundbreaking work that introduced the term ""post-modernism"" and fundamentally altered the interpretation and course of (post-)modern philosophy. With this book, Lyotard set the agenda for the discussion of the postmodern, which began in the 1980'ies. Lyotard's main point is that modern society has become postmodern because man no longer believes that scientific and technological progress will lead to freedom, prosperity, and enlightenment for all. For postmodern man, doubt is the dominating factor. The term ""postmodernism"" was previously only used by art critics, but with ""The Postmodern Condition"", Lyotard introduced it in philosophy, with the following quotation: ""Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives"", altering our comprehension of this most recent period of philosophy. ""The term ""postmodern"" came into the philosophical lexicon with the publication of Jean-François Lyotard's ""La Condition Postmoderne"" in 1979 (English: ""The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge"", 1984), where he employs Wittgenstein's model of language games (see Wittgenstein 1953) and concepts taken from speech act theory to account for what he calls a transformation of the game rules for science, art, and literature since the end of the nineteenth century. He describes his text as a combination of two very different language games, that of the philosopher and that of the expert. Where the expert knows what he knows and what he doesn't know, the philosopher knows neither, but poses questions. In light of this ambiguity, Lyotard states that his portrayal of the state of knowledge ""makes no claims to being original or even true,"" and that his hypotheses ""should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the questions raised"" (Lyotard 1984, 7). The book, then, is as much an experiment in the combination of language games as it is an objective ""report.""On Lyotard's account, the computer age has transformed knowledge into information, that is, coded messages within a system of transmission and communication. Analysis of this knowledge calls for a pragmatics of communication insofar as the phrasing of messages, their transmission and reception, must follow rules in order to be accepted by those who judge them. However, as Lyotard points out, the position of judge or legislator is also a position within a language game, and this raises the question of legitimation. As he insists, ""there is a strict interlinkage between the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics"" (Lyotard 1984, 8), and this interlinkage constitutes the cultural perspective of the West. Science is therefore tightly interwoven with government and administration, especially in the information age, where enormous amounts of capital and large installations are needed for research."" (SEP). ‎

‎Philae.‎

‎ Sérigraphie au format 34 x 49 cm. ‎

‎Tirage limité à 100 exemplaires numérotés. Signée par Jean-François Charles. ‎

‎L'aventure de la Réforme - Le monde de Jean Calvin. ‎

‎Genève, Labor et Fides, 1986. Grand in-4, pleine toile titrée sous jaquette illustrée. A l'état de neuf (on l'a sorti de son emballage d'éditeur pour le photographier). Abonamment illustré en noir et en couleurs. ‎

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‎L'aube de la modernité - Un long exode - La chrétienté latine - Le climat de l'avant-Réforme. 2e partie: De l'humanisme aux réformes - Luther et l'Europe - Zwingli - Calvin - L'établissement de la Réforme en Europe - L'établissement de la Réforme en Suisse. 3e partie: La chrétienté éclatée - L'Italie et l'Espagne - Echec français - L'établissement allemand et nordique - La réussite rhénane - L'Angleterre - La dissidence puritaine - L'Europe de l'Est et du Nord - L'orthodoxie protestante. 4e partie: Une autre voie - La Réforme au quotidien - Hommes et idées en marge de l'histoire - La montée des enseignants - Le concile de Trente et la Réforme catholique - Le destin de la Réforme. ‎

‎Nadar. I: Photographies - II: Dessins et écrits. ‎

‎ Arthur Hubschmid, 1979. 2 forts volumes in-8 de 1300 pages (pagination continue), pleine toile titrée. En belle condition. ‎

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‎Projet d'un ordre Francois en Tactique, ou la Phalange Coupée et Doublée, soutenue par le Mêlange des Armes, proposée comme systême général, dont on prouve l'excellence & la supérioté, comparant perpétuellement à la m´ethode actuellement en usage......‎

‎Paris, D'Antoine Boudet, 1755-56. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. stamps on title-page. XXX,446,(2)(2),VIII,92 pp., 17 large folded engraved plates. Wide-margined, clean and fine, printed on good paper.‎

‎First edition. - Rumpf, 2424.‎

‎Jean-Françoise Comment. ‎

‎ Adam Biro, 2000. Grand in-4, cartonnage bleu façon toile, jaquette couleurs. En belle condition. ‎

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‎Portrait par Alexandre Voisard, suivi de "Méditations sur la couleur. Les oeuvres de la maturité" et d'un entretien avec l'artiste, "Une aventure dans l'abstraction". Nombreuses et belles reproductions en couleurs. Edition originale. ‎

‎Baudelaire polémiste. ‎

‎ Jean-Jacques Pauvert, coll. Libertés nouvelles, 1968. Petit in-8 broché, couverture en deux tons. Pli au coin inférieur du premier plat, mais visiblement jamais lu... ‎

‎Belisarius, skreven i det Franske Sprog af Herr Marmontel, Medlem af Academie Francoise i Paris, og nu i Dansk oversat.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Heineck=Mumme & Faber, 1768. Samtidigt slidt hldrbd. Forreste fals itu, men permen ikke løsgået. (18),252,(1) pp. Første tre og sidste tre sider brunede. Nogle brugsspor.‎

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