Portrait. Jacques Rancière

Rethinking Emancipation in Organization Studies . In the light of Jacques Rancière ’ s Philosophy

The demand for emancipation was once something we only associated with oppressed social groups such as Women, Workers or the colonized who were seeking to escape from various forms of domination which they had long been subjected to. Today, some of the most privileged groups in our society such as middle managers and professions talk about their thirst for emancipation. They seek this precious ...

Jacques Loeb

1890 1. Die SehstSrungen nach Verletzung der Grosshimrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. I, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 67-114. 2. Die Sehst6rungen nach Verletzung der Grosshirnrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. II. Die Natur der Sehst6rungen, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 115-172. 3. Die elementaren St6rungen einfacher Funktionen nach oberfl~chlicher, umschriebener Verletzung des Grosshirns...

Jacques Tits

Armand Borel As I Knew Him. I do not remember exactly when I first met Armand Borel. It may have been in Paris in 1949 or in Zürich in 1950. After that we often met, and we soon became good friends. He liked to recall jokingly that he was the one from whom I learned that there existed five exceptional simple Lie groups, the study of which became for a while, shortly afterward, my special trade....

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

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