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' Tu sais ce qui arrive à ceux qui pensent qu’on peut survivre en respectant des lois morales ? Tôt ou tard, ils finissent piétinés. ' Les Farel forment un couple de pouvoir. Jean est un célèbre journaliste politique ; son épouse Claire est connue pour ses engagements féministes. Leur fils, Alexandre, étudie dans une prestigieuse université américaine. Mais alors que tout semble leur réussir, une accusation de viol fait voler en éclats ce qu’ils avaient si chèrement acquis. Ce roman puissant interroge la violence du monde contemporain et nous confronte à nos peurs : qui est à l’abri de se retrouver un jour piégé dans un redoutable engrenage ?

Les progrès scientifiques se trouvent malgré eux à l'origine d'une révolution singulière qui instrumentalise les éléments humains, substrats de leurs expériences ou matière première indispensable à la mise en place des protocoles thérapeutiques nouveaux. En résultent l'apparition de la Nature sur la scène du Droit au détriment d'un monde juridique construit, et la remise en cause de la summa divisio des choses et des personnes héritées du droit romain. Corps humain, organes, cellules, embryon, fœtus, dépouille mortelle et autres droits de la personnalité ou créations humaines se heurtent par conséquent à des problèmes de qualification alimentant une doctrine divisée; aussi une contribution à l'étude des catégories classiques à l'aune des éléments humains devenait-elle nécessaire. S'est ainsi imposée la nature réelle de ces éléments, réité sur laquelle l'essence humaine influe en terme de régime protecteur, de sorte que la proposition de "Choses humaines" semble traduire l'appréhension de ces choses qui allient humanité et réité.

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past--a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful dean of faculty. And it's not the secret of Coleman's alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife. Nor is it the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend. Coleman's secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came unraveled. Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth's eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation's fate as by the "human stain" that so ineradicably marks human nature. This harrowing, deeply compassionate, and completely absorbing novel is a magnificent successor to his Vietnam-era novel, American Pastoral, and his McCarthy-era novel, I Married a Communist.

When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.