Jacques Barzun

At first glance Machiavelli’s writings could be mistaken for evil and satanic beliefs, but in reality there are many good underlying points as to how to rule a nation. I believe that the New Yorker’s description of Machiavelli is the best example of his life and beliefs, because it not only touches upon the high points, but the low points of beliefs as well. The New Yorker goes into great detail about how Machiavelli came up from a mid level family to achieve a role as a government official/ “ambassador”

Psychoanalytical criticism is a form of literary critique, which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature. One of the more prevalent Psychoanalytical theorists after Freud was Jacques Lacan. In his text, “The Signification of the Phallus,” asserts that the idea of both sexes are based on the male “being” and the female “having” the phallus, and these two differences determine the relations between the sexes while also bringing them together. For Lacan, the

Avis rara I’m proud to be a heterosexual. There. I said it. The outburst was stuck in my throat, I must confess, since Tim Cook, Apple’s super CEO post-Steven Jobs found it in his best interest to declare in public his sexual orientation. I was looking forward to declare mine too, even considering that because of the sexual-confessional content of my first novel, it would hardly come as a surprise. I lie, or at least, I soften it up. Such outburst has been stuck in my throat for much longer, since

Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser, post-structuralist philosophers and intellectual theorists, have expanded the confines of the human subject (Pauker). Addressing it from opposite academic disciplines they deal with many similar topics however expressed in different ways. As each independently discusses the self awareness of the human subject, many ties can be formed between these two theorists, both arguing that a subject is misrecognized and constructed differently to the traditional Cartesian

A retrieval system includes a functional part with management lifecycle archived documents (categorization and classification, traceability, access rights, rules retention / destruction) and a technical section with storage, security, conservation and sustainability of media (platform conservation). Certain activities may be delegated to tools or operators outside the archive. Archived documents still share today between paper documents (stocks still large) and digital documents (increasing share

Jacques Ellul was a professor of history and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux. He wrote 58 books and more than a thousand articles over his career, many of which discussed propaganda, the influence of technology on society, and also the correlation between religion and politics. The central theme of Ellul’s work proved to be the threat to human freedom and religion shaped by modern technology. Ellul’s continual concern was

the Western world by European powers. Expeditions appointed by European monarchs to discover routes to the abundant resources in China and the Indies brought some of the first European explorers to the shores of present day Canada. French explorer Jacques Cartier was delegated the task of finding a western passage to the East and when he crossed the Atlantic and landed on the shores of present day Newfoundland in 1534 he thought he had found Asia. When Cartier inserted a cross in the soil in the Gaspé

Introduction Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert’s first novel and is considered his masterpiece. It has been studied from various angles by the critics. Some study it as a realistic novel of the nineteenth century rooted in its social milieu. There are other critics who have studied it as a satire of romantic sensibility. It is simply assumed that Emma Bovary, the protagonist, embodied naive dreams and empty cliché that author wishes to ridicule, as excesses and mannerisms of romanticism. She is seen

We follow Lacan and return to Freud, only to find ourselves arriving at the knowledge that the unconscious operates like translating without the original text. There goes a process of representing activity in which we achieve a representation without knowing what is the "represented." Lacan leads us back to so many of Freud's decisive terms, thereby prefiguring the way those terms slip away from the grasp of traditional conceptual discourse. In The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

The Virgin Suicides and the Writing Self   Usually our voice for telling a story is our own writing self.  A person that understands the situation at hand and speaks in a manner relevant to the situation.  We don't normally create a separate narrator to make our writing more interesting.  We simply write our thoughts and opinions to convey our ideas.  But Jeffery Eugenides writing the Virgin Suicides brought out a separate part of himself to narrate for him.  An entirely fabricated