Consumption is a need that cannot be separated from humans. plays an important role in human life. However, there paradigm shift the realm of consumption this contemporary era. According to Jean Baudrillard, phenomenon society no longer carried out because needs and nor it done obtain satisfaction or enjoyment but aimed at obtaining certain social status. This study aims elaborate on thoughts p...

In the last decade, with the publication of his Complete Works, there has been renewed interest in Walras’s methodology, mostly in the French economic literature. In particular, some scholars have argued that Walras characteristically confused positive and normative statements, a mistake all the more surprising given his impressive knowledge of philosophy (the so-called ‘Walras paradox’). This ...

Abstract In pondering the purpose and relevance of thought French philosopher, Michel Serres, this article surveys recent secondary literature about his works in geography, social science, literary humanities subjects. Where they are to be helpful, includes some biographical details. It first discusses Serres's prescience as a philosopher ecological climate crises Anthropocene. then considers d...

gaston bachelard, the philosopher, mathematician, physicist and french literary critic, relying on the four elements of water, wind, earth and fire, provided a new way of critique in the literature .in his critique, the poet in his mind envisions the idea of ​​dreams and imagination, and thought into words, then, he converts these ideas into poetic images in the shape of words. according to him...

According to the analysis by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, famous poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire described (and followed) two main—somewhat unusual—ideas about art: that art should be vague, create an object of art, one needs aim for uniqueness. In this paper, we provide algorithm-based explanation these seemingly counter-intuitive ideas, related Kolmogorov complexity-based formali...

A nonsensical claim is hardly worth the trouble to contest as long as nobody except its author takes it seriously. In some circles, however, French philosopher Alain Badiou is heralded as a great thinker. Especially his emphasis on multiplicity should raise interest from the perspective of information management. So, can Badiou’s ideas be put to practical use, there? After admitting that his ...

As we race each other to close increasingly smaller holes in the catheterization laboratory, we would do well to remember these wise words of Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, and philosopher who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probability. In this editorial, we aim to look at the existing evidence surrounding the closure of the isolated small ventricular septal defect (VSD), ...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) is a French philosopher who owes his fame to his materialist ideas. He was also a provocative atheist who used his scathing pen to defend the first concept of a theory of mind. We offer here one of his little-known works, reporting on a case of grande hystérie, as Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and his student Paul Richer (1849-1933) would describe the c...

In this essay, the use of postmodern rhetorical irony as a subversive strategy is explored. In particular, Susan Dorothea White's painting, The First Supper, is analyzed as a subversive, postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo da Vinci's famed work, The Last Supper. This analysis suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical characteristics, most relevan...