The mystical relationship between Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec

In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks

to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth

century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec,

the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's

criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which

were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condem...

La nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin.

L'ouvrage propose une histoire de l'interprétation de la nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin. Il met en lumière l'importance du refus plotinien de l'artificialisme médioplatonicien qui considère les Formes comme des pensées du dieu et subordonne leur causalité à celle du démiurge, fabricant du monde. En considérant les Formes comme des réalités vivantes et intellectives, Plotin bouleverse le sens de la caus...

Includes an in-depth interview with French cartoonist Joann Sfar.

'Sfar So Far' is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of histor...

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010-2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards,...