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Bentley, Nick. "Radical fictions : form, ideology and identity in the fifties English novel." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391216.
Full textTabuteau, Éric. "Images du multiculturalisme dans le roman antillais anglophone : Wilson Harris, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon." Dijon, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996DIJOL019.
Full textThis thesis deals with the representation of multiculturalism in the works of Wilson Harris, George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon, the four most significant novelists in the english-speaking caribbean, notably from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. It is based on a corpus of eleven novels presenting a wide range of characters, societies, periods and places closely connected with the English west Indian experience. In these novels that have been brought together under the headings the Guyana quartet for Harris, the Ego novels for lamming, the African narratives for Naipaul and the Moses trilogy for Selvon, it is demonstrated how each writer has given of multiculturalism a personal picture that is nevertheless complementary to his colleagues'. For Selvon, the bringing together of cultures and races is beneficial to the individual if voluntary and free from coercion. For Naipaul, on the contrary, uncontrolled interbreeding can have harmful consequences for the human being who is a prisoner of his her own group. For lamming, a multicultural society is inconceivable since past atrocities forbid any chance of success. For Harris, on the other hand, miscegenation, whatever its origin, is spread around the world to such an extent that it has become the prerequisite for the cross-cultural reconciliation of humanity. The four novelists' works, in which pervades the concept of multiculturalism at a time when the word is still unknown, herald the interest that cross-cultural studies will arouse in the west, but also reveal the limits of the euphoria prompted by independence in the former colonies where multiracial societies can be found. None of the works studied, even the most pessimistic as regards multiculturalism, suspects a deterioration in ethnic relations as serious as that recently witnessed in the countries of the English-speaking West Indies, South America and central Africa which are alluded to
Buzelin, Hélène. "Sur le terrain de la traduction." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38469.
Full textLin, Tzu Yu. "Detoured, deferred and different : a comparative study of postcolonial diasporic identities in the literary works of Sam Selvon and Weng Nao." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10582.
Full textVickers, Kathleen. ""This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06182009-160955/.
Full textLuc-Cayol, Agnès. "Les Comportements des Antillais dans leur milieu d'origine et à Londres, à travers quatre romans de Samuel Selvon, "A Brighter Sun", "Turn Again Tiger", "The Lonely Londoners", "Moses Ascending"." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37599263p.
Full textLuc-Cayol, Agnès. "Les comportements des antillais dans leur milieu d'origine et à Londres à travers quatre romans de Samuel Selvon : A brighter sun, Turn again tiger, The lonely londoners et Moses ascending." Dijon, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986DIJOL007.
Full textIn Trinidad, this island presented in A brighter sun and Turn again tiger as a place eaten up with poverty ignorance and prejudices, people have to bear the heavy burden of everyday life, confined between a persisting colonial past and the shock of the modern world which penetrates deep into the country. They sometimes accept the social and psychological pressures exerted on them, but more often, they try to escape their conditions through indifference and a denial of reality. They are seen attempting to copy western models or becoming inebriated with rum, dreams and religion. Their escape may also end in exile, as it is suggested in The lonely Londoners and Moses ascending. In these novels, the pathos and tragedy of their lives permeate through Samuel Selvon's surface humour. Confronted with a new and hostile environment, the West Indians who are now black immigrants in London still put on a mask and they live as in a dream. They try to re-create the West Indies in the heart of London, they take to clownery, they become hustlers, seducers, revolutionary leaders, megalomaniacs. . . The big city is made a theatre, and the various parts they play provide an outlet for them to survive. However, people's attitudes in Samuel Selvon's novels are not limited to submission, escape or exile. A brighter sun and turn again tiger are also concerned with another type of reaction: a daily fight against the pressures that cripple Trinidad during the second world war and even after; but this is expressed through a moderate and idealistic hero. Finally, A brighter sun, Turn again tiger, The lonely Londoners and Moses ascending reveal Samuel Selvon's own attitude: a lucid mind combined with humour and tolerance. Far from being aggressive, and though they denounce various serious problems his books show his deep attachment to a people he makes us love
Casimir, Ulrick Charles 1973. "Conceptualizing the Caribbean: Reexportation and Anglophone Caribbean cultural products." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8508.
Full textThis dissertation examines the relationship between British and American conceptualizations of the Anglophone Caribbean and the way that Anglophone Caribbean fiction writers and filmmakers tend to represent the region. Central to my project is the process of reexportation, whereby Caribbean artists attain success at home by first achieving renown abroad. I argue that the primary implication of reexportation is that British and American conceptualizations of the Anglophone Caribbean have had a determining effect upon attempts by Anglophone Caribbean fiction writers and filmmakers to represent the region. Chapter I introduces the dissertation. Chapter II, "The 'Double Audience' of Samuel Selvon and The Lonely Londoners ," concerns Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon, who--along with George Lamming, Derek Walcott, and V. S. Naipaul--is cited as being among the most important and influential of the West Indian authors who began publishing in the 1950s. Although I consider all of Selvon's ten novels in that chapter, my main concern is The Lonely Londoners (1956), Selvon's best known and perhaps most pivotal and misread novel. Chapter III, "Contrapuntally Re-reading Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come, " features a reevaluation of the Jamaican filmmaker's 1972 motion picture, which in many complex ways remains the Caribbean film. Chapter IV, " Pressure and the Caribbean," focuses on Trinidadian filmmaker Horace Ove's Pressure (1975), which I deliberately treat as a Caribbean film although it is still best known as Britain's first feature-length dramatic movie with a "black" director. Vital secondary texts include selected works by Edward Said, Mikhail Bahktin, and Richard Dyer, as well as Kenneth Ramchand, Keith Warner, and D. Elliott Parris. The three existing book-length analyses of Selvon's fiction are the main voices with which the Selvon chapter is in discourse. David Bordwell's work in cinematic narrative theory and Marcia Landy's contribution to the study of British genres are essential to the frameworks through which I read the cinematic primary texts.
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Weber, Frank. "Präparative Studien in den Mehrstoffsystemen Selten-Erd-Metall - Selen bzw. - Tellur und Sauerstoff." [S.l.] : Universität Stuttgart , Fakultät Chemie, 1999. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB8287476.
Full textSellin, Rémy. "Dégradation de catalyseurs Pt-C sous des conditions mimant celles d'une PEMFC en fonctionnement." Poitiers, 2009. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2009/Sellin-Remy/2009-Sellin-Remy-These.pdf.
Full textFuel cell Pt/C catalysts were prepared via different colloidal methods. TGA, TGAMS, TEM and XRD studies from 323 to 573 K were carried out under oxidative and reductive atmospheres to mimic fuel cell anode and cathode working conditions and to accelerate ageing process. Under air flow, little aggregation of platinum is observed, but no fusion and increase of Lv. This is explained by the presence of oxygen species on the platinum surface. Under reductive atmosphere (H2 3%/He), aggregation and increase of the mean crystallite size are observed. Two kinetics of grain growth process seem to exist. Moreover, the carbon support undergoes degradation by combustion under air and reforming under reductive atmosphere. The effect of thermal treatment under controlled atmospheres on the electrochemical active surface area and on the electrocatalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction and CO oxidation of the Pt/C catalyst were evaluated
Luginbühl, Beatrice. "Im Kampf gegen die Todesstrafe: Jean-Jacques Comte de Sellon (1782 - 1839) : ein Plädoyer für die Unantastbarkeit des menschlichen Lebens /." Zürich : Schulthess, Jur. Medien, 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/318294621.pdf.
Full textMorin, Robert. "L'Imagination selon Diderot." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375943198.
Full textDIBI, KOUADIO. "L'homme selon hegel." Poitiers, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987POIT5006.
Full textHegel is generally considered as a philosopher dissolving any reality in the fluididy of the concept: he doesn't have the mere respect for singular being, in itself. So no attention is paid to man in the intrinsical depth of his subjectivity. In the contrary, we do think hegel raises man to a place where he comes to be honoured as a being who gets to his own plenitude if only he sacrifices his singularity for the absolute. Hegel develops a "staying thought". The infinite process of negativity, while "sursuming" all the forms and moments unable to accomplish it as totality, liberates the movement of life, and expresses the necessity to find a substantial stay where rationality comes to coincide with itself in depth. Hegel's philosophy is a destinal one, paying attention to this infinite depthe where spirit and time become knotted like a cross of the present. Finally, hegelian abstraction can be said a concrete abstraction. Ethics and man as an obliged being do only have their fundation in the night of the essence as reflexion. Because it comes to save intimity, the reflexion of the essence is the ground from which can proceed an intimation
Popescu, Nicolae. "L'ecriture selon E.M. Cioran." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55649.
Full textChénier, Anne-Claude. "L'école selon Réjean Ducharme." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/MQ54985.pdf.
Full textArino, Marc. "L'Apocalypse selon Michel Tremblay /." Pessac : Université Michel-de-Montaigne, Bordeaux 3, LAPRIL, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41024693g.
Full textSeong, Byung-yeul. "La liberté selon Malebranche." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040040.
Full textMalebranche was born in 1638 and died 1715. He became an oratorian in 1660. His most important works are "Recherche de la vérité" (1674) and "Traité de la nature et de la grâce" 1680). Some of his positions derive from St. Augustine and Descartes, but his system is profoundly original. He denies that any action of matter upon mind was possible, and explained sensation as the effect of new creative act in the mental order to correspond with things in the physical creation (occasionalism). His principle of "simplicité des moyens" (that god exhibits his omnipotence by acting always in the simplest way) led him into a form of ontologism, in which god was the immediate cause of all knowledge, and the place of our ideas; consequently, he taught that our first and simplest idea is that of the infinite. However, Malebranche names by the term "will", the inclinations which god incessantly creates the soul. These spiritual movements are of two kinds. Will is divinely inspired inclination toward the god. Liberty is the power by the soul checks this inclination toward the good in general, and fixes it on a particular object. The inclination toward truth and goodness originate in god, not in the soul; but the power by which these inclinations are checked before a perceived idea, is proper to the soul itself
SAIX, JEAN-PHILIPPE. "La septorhinoplastie selon cottle." Besançon, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993BESA3088.
Full textSokologorsky, Claude. "Le corps selon Nietzsche." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040245.
Full textNietzsche’s comprehension of the body is opposed to the mechanistic conception which dominates the science of his time: the body is not composed of atoms in motion; it forms a hierarchy of wills to power. At the same time, the body is my authentic self: the existence of an intellectual principle outside the body is an illusion. Insofar as the essence of the body is the essence of the world, that is to say, the will to power, and the body also is the place of my most intimate experience, it forms the true way to knowledge. However, the body does not reveal itself to itself immediately: As will to power, he interprets, that is to say, transforms and falsifies; and such a transformation also takes place in the inner consciousness. Therefore, the body, only way to knowledge, is also principle of error. Knowledge, which is not possible outside the body, can though be won only against the body, that is to say, as result of an ascetic effort
Nyembo, Mamba Immaculée. "La révélation selon Guy Lafon." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/30391/30391.pdf.
Full textFontanier, Jean-Michel. "La beauté selon saint Augustin /." Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369678404.
Full textGrua, Gaston Sleigh R. C. "La justice humaine selon Leibniz /." New York ; London : Garland, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37401696s.
Full textLamberti, Jean-Claude. "Démocratie et révolution selon Tocqueville." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37593944w.
Full textLamarche, Vincent. "Constance et temporalité selon Platon." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37614902q.
Full textNguyen, Patricia. "Systématicité et mysticisme selon Bergson." Lyon 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LYO31004.
Full textCatéora-Lemonnier, Delphine. "Le baiser selon Alfred Hitchcock." Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA084096.
Full textAlfred Hitchcock, the director of the biggest thrillers of the cinema history, turns out to be also the director of big romances. It is vital for every hero, man or woman, to make couple; it’s the recurring idea of his movies. It is thanks to this union that the lonely hero, immature and egocentric, threatened with death, in most of cases accused of a murder which he did not commit, will be able to face every trial of life. This idea is so current in Hitchcock’s that we describe it as obsessive. In Hitchcock’s, as in fairy tales, it is thanks to his union with the other that the hero, who has not reached a sufficient maturity yet, can become an adult. Furthermore, only the emotional security which he can find in his couple will be really able to calm his fears. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock stood by his idea of love showing that the man and the woman by bringing together succeed in saving each other from a meaningless existence. In his very numerous kiss scenes, Alfred Hitchcock clearly expresses his idea of the couple. These scenes celebrate the so hoped union between his hero and his heroine, and tell how they have difficulty living their love. In Hollywood, Hitchcock directed more romances and complied with the esthetic rules implicitly laid down since the 1920’s for these scenes, but quickly the filmmaker created his own style. Concerning the Hays code, we observed that things are more complicated than what is usually told, especially about the famous kiss scene in "Notorious"
Politis, Hélène. "Le discours philosophique selon Kierkegaard." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010521.
Full textThe first part sums up the main stages in the reception of Kierkegaard's works in France; it demonstrates how some inaccurate interpretations developed and why they persisted. The second part surveys and assesses Kierkegaard's philosophical readings in the danish samlede vaerker (complete works) and papirer (papers). The use Kierkegaard makes of these readings in his works is much more important than is usually acknowledged. (A long annex to the thesis gives a detailed list of the philosophical references in the papirer. ) The third part shows with precise examples that it is through analyzing and discussing the doctrines and concepts of philosophers (above all Hegel), that Kierkegaard constructs his own notions (dialectic of stages, paradox, ethics, repetition, existence, and so forth). A shorter fourth part investigates the philosophical modalities which appear even in his more indirect means of expressions (pseudonymic writing, "philosophical fragments", metaphors, etc. ). Kierkegaard, a reader of philosophers and a fully-fledged philosopher himself: such are the two inseparable facets of our thesis
Lamarche, Vincent. "Constance et temporalité selon Platon." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040054.
Full textIn spite of what the divisions of the Timaeus (27d) might suggest, Plato grants dignity and constancy to temporal beings, by allowing, thanks to a double "parricide", the possibility of an intermediate between the status he reserves to the intelligible and the one attributed to the tangible world by the relativists. In the existence of time and in our participation in its "forms" (the "was" and the "will be"), he sees an evidence of the interaction between "being" and "becoming", and a sign of divine concern. In the Philebus and in the Parmenides, he conceives time as a "mixture" of "limit" and "infinity", and settles the intelligibility of temporal becoming by means of distinctions which seem to announce Aristotle’s physics
OBAME, ANGUERE SYLVER. "L'absolu et l'histoire selon hegel." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040123.
Full textChâteauvieux, Marie de. "Justice et amitié selon Aristote." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040100.
Full textLaurent, Jérôme. "Procession et participation selon platon." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040019.
Full textPlotinus'thought explains the state of things by a movement of expansion from the one, absoluetely absolue, to the more or less organized multiplicity of nature. Such a procession results from the perfect activity of ideas and temporality of soul. We aimed at demonstrating that a central place is given to plato's theory of participation and how plotinus vitalism cannot be understood without a rigorous ontolgy : thus, the sensible phenomena are founded by the intelligible ideas as well as processionary derivation. Which continuity should we attribute to the different levels of procession ? which role should we confer to the different sorts of logoi ? what is the place of providence ? how to think matter ? these questions led us to analyse the problems of beauty and ugliness, of incarnation and death. And, in general, problems of perfection and imperfection. The complementarity of procession and participation makes it impossible to maintain a strict dualism, but does not consequently allow us emanatistic interpretation of plotinus. The two-act doctrin, psychic dynamism and the role of contemplation let plotinus think that the world is varied, as the being is itself, and unique as the first principle
Borel, Denis. "L'habitus des principes selon aristote." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040213.
Full textMAUDUIT, VERONIQUE. "Arithmetique des polynomes selon carlitz." Caen, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998CAEN2001.
Full textMilhaud-Cappe, Danielle. "Education et guérison selon Freud." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040080.
Full textPerreau, Laurent. "Le monde social selon Husserl." Paris 1, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA010624.
Full textCôté, Louise. "La violence selon René Girard." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29251.
Full textVerrey, Arnaud. "Le droit selon la musique." Thesis, Paris 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA020011/document.
Full textThis thesis, the subject of which is “Rights and law in according to music” is in response to Mr Carbonnier's “Précis de sociologie juridique” (Précis of legal Sociology) in which the writer suggest doing a research about the rights and law’s representation in music. The aim of this thesis, accordingly, is to enquire whether music does indeed involve rights and law – an associated legal phenomenon – and if so, what extent. In this context, all aspects covered by the terms “rights and law” are considered: the law, the judgement, the contract and the basis of authority – whether human or divine. As used here the term “music” represents solely that which falls within the scope of western classical music, be it of a religious or non-religious nature. The wording “in according to” refers therefore to the different aspects inherent in “the rights and law’s representation in music” which is the subject’s problematic: - rights and law for the use of music: after confirmation of the presence of rights, law and legal actors in the five hundred or so works reviewed, the purpose of this first part is to explain why these legal requirements exist in a musical work, what these requirements define and how they apply in this work. - rights and law concerning musical composition: this second part , based on many of the musical procedures used by composers (instrumentation and voices, the use of harmony and counterpoint, musical phrasing and motifs, expression and rhythm), aims at identifying how the musical composition represents rights and law
Cyzewski, Julie Hamilton Ludlam. "Broadcasting Friendship: Decolonization, Literature, and the BBC." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461169080.
Full textTakahashi, Mieko. "Gender dimensions in family life : a comparatvie study of structural constraints and power in Sweden and Japan /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell international, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392266087.
Full textTrepp, Anne-Charlott. "Sanfte Männlichkeit und selbständige Weiblichkeit : Frauen und Männer im Hamburger Bürgertum zwischen 1770 und 1840 /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35852552k.
Full textDemir, Selvan [Verfasser]. "Scandium cluster and metallocene chemistry / Selvan Demir." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1013831799/34.
Full textPoirier, Michel Philippe. "Le survenant selon Giono et Guèvremont /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61792.
Full textBeauparlant, Roch. "L'évaluation des arguments selon S.E. Toulmin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/MQ32526.pdf.
Full textAlexandre, Christian. "Athéisme, christianisme, religion selon Ernst Bloch." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37602204s.
Full textMarcel, Antonin. "Compression d'image fixe selon le contenu." Mémoire, Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 2001. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/1113.
Full textColtier, Danielle. "Analyse sémantique de "selon" : quelques propositions." Nancy 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NAN21046.
Full textFleyfel, Antoine. "Le sacré et l'histoire selon Spinoza." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010504.
Full textADIJA, BINTY SAID. "Le clos et l'ouvert selon bergson." Poitiers, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987POIT5018.
Full textStarting from spencer's philosophy, bergson discovered the "duration", that is the mobility and the undivided continuity. The change is the essential reality of the universe and the human's soul. The study of the inside's life will help us to understand the metaphysical problems. The philosophy is " the psychology going toward metaphysics ". Bergson invite us to get rid of the illusions created by the habit and the language's influence. Summarily, we have to react against the mechanism of an essential and useful cleverness, because the philosophy understood by this way is a conscious return to the problem of our interior's experience. From the difference between the right "duration" and the homogeneous or the usual time, we can say that the human is free and creative; but his creative wish and capacity is always disturbed by the instinct of conservation. The progress will be effective within the oscillation between the "closed" philosophy and the "opened" philosophy. Bergson's vision of the world is a way leading to the liberation. It's possible to lift the obstacles imposed by the human's condition, by asking for a help from uncommon persons such as heros and saints. This overtaking means that we are invited to set ourselves completely free and to be really a human, not only one of species existing in the world. In another word, to jump out of the nature and to be completely free. The progress to the liberation which is a fusion with the principle, can be realized only through the most difficult and necessary revolution, such as the conquest of oneself deeply, the passage from the "closed" morals to the "opened" morals, from the "closed" to the "opened" city
Alexandre, Christian. "Athéisme, christianisme, utopie selon Ernst Bloch." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30003.
Full textReligion and particularly christianity takes a fundamental place in ernst bloch's work. In his early books as in those of his maturity, the reference to various religious experiences and problematics can be felt. Comparing the new concepts forged by bloch to the corresponding concepts in the religious field gives us the opportunity to grasp the author's thought at its spring. Bloch always has a critical attitude towards religion since he sets himself in an atheistic perspective; but he regards christianity, in spite of the scleroses due to the existence of the churches, as the privileged bearer of a heritage from mankind which he wishes to place at the disposal of man by relieving him of his theocratic mode of expression. In order to illustrate these two former convictions, the first part of our work deals with the way bloch carries on the atheistic traditions of the "philosophy of enlightment", feuerbach, marx and engels and also with the way he puts himself apart from them with his novel atheism. The second part analyses bloch's particular approach of the bible; it allows to put into light the importance given by our author to exodus, the kingdom and the figure of jesus "son of man" which, as it seems to him, stand out, in the bible already, against a background of "distheocratisation". The third part centers on the connections between the world and man. Bloch would like to reproduce, off religion, the relationships set up by the believers between themselves and god or jesus, between their terrestrial existence and the perspective of the kingdom. His examples are: moses, job, jesus. . . , but also the mystics. The utopian models are a secularized son of man and the kingdom as the end of history; the final utopia is a humanized nature and a naturalized man