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Futuribles Le dernier quart du XXe si??cle a ?©t?© marqu?© par l'?©mergence, l'ascension puis le d?©clin des mouvements islamistes. Si l'islamisme est un courant qui puise ses racines ? la fin du XIXe si??cle, Gilles Kepel postule dans son ouvrage l'autonomie de la s?©quence des 30 derni??res ann?©es parce que la r?©f?©rence ? l'islamisme y appara?®t " comme une nouvelle utopie, un id?©al politique qui s'est tr??s largement substitu?© ? l'id?©al nationaliste qui pr?©valait depuis les ind?©pendances " et qui a ?©t?© " l'inspiratrice d'un mouvement social d'une ampleur particuli??re ". L'ambition du livre est donc de rendre compte du ph?©nom??ne dans son ensemble, ? travers le monde, de l'Iran ? la Malaisie, du Soudan aux banlieues des capitales europ?©ennes, de la Bosnie ? l'Afghanistan, " afin de transposer d'une situation ? une autre les questions suscit?©es par telle exp?©rience particuli??re, les ?©clairant mutuellement et ?©lucidant ainsi ce que l'approche d'une seule laissait obscur ". ?? l'origine de ce travail, indique Gilles Kepel, il y eut une interrogation tr??s simple : pourquoi " certains mouvements islamistes ?©taient parvenus ? s'emparer du pouvoir (succ??s de la r?©volution iranienne), tandis que d'autres, (les plus nombreux), tels les mouvements ?©gyptiens, y avaient ?©chou?© " ? C'est l'analyse sociologique qui fournit ? l'auteur les clefs de son argumentation. La mouvance islamiste est selon lui " le produit de la mobilisation simultan?©e de groupes sociaux diff?©rents ", jeunesse urbaine pauvre, classes moyennes pieuses, intelligentsia islamiste sans oublier les groupuscules radicalis?©s et violents. Or aujourd'hui, " l'islamisme - comme amalgame de groupes sociaux diff?©rents soud?©s dans une id?©ologie commune - va commencer ? se d?©faire, pr?©cipitant le d?©clin de l'ensemble ". Certains groupes, dans la foul?©e du jihad afghan s'orientent vers une radicalisation violente tandis que les groupes islamistes mod?©r?©s issus des classes moyennes s'orientent vers l'alliance avec les groupes la??cs et proc??dent ? une r?©flexion qui s'articule autour de la d?©mocratie et des droits de l'homme. On assiste aujourd'hui, indique l'auteur, ? un travail de recomposition de l'identit?© dans le monde musulman o?? la r?©f?©rence ? l'islam a une place mais n'a pas une place exclusive. " Aujourd'hui, en l'an 2000, l'?©puisement de l'id?©ologie et de la mobilisation islamistes ouvre la voie ? un [...] moment de d?©passement : les musulmans peuvent tout ? fait ?©laborer leur mani??re de s'inscrire dans un processus d?©mocratique qui soit ? la fois universelle et particuli??re ". L'enjeu est de voir " si les ?©lites au pouvoir, qui b?©n?©ficient d'une opportunit?© historique pour promouvoir la d?©mocratie dans les pays qu'elles contr??lent, sauront en saisir l'occasion, accomplir les sacrifices n?©cessaires pour ?©largir leur base sociale, ou persisteront dans une logique d'appropriation patrimoniale de l'Etat, annonciatrice de nouvelles temp??tes et de nouveaux d?©sastres ". L'ouvrage est dot?© d'un appareil cartographique. --Yann Vinh-- --Ce texte fait r?©f?©rence ? une ?©dition ?©puis?©e ou non disponible de ce titre.

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Amazon.com Gilles Kepel's Jihad is an intense, detailed examination of the militant Islamist movement over the last quarter-century. Kepel divides his book into two parts--"Expansion" and "Decline"--and posits that the September 11, 2001, attacks, rather than demonstrating "strength and irrepressible might," highlighted the "isolation" and "fragmentation" of a "faltering" and probably doomed extremist ideology. Kepel follows Islamism from its theoretical underpinnings in the late 1960s and its rapid expansion into Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia, through the Taliban's ascendancy in Afghanistan and beyond. He explains Islamism's attractions, and outlines its severe shortcomings. With consummate skill, he illuminates the bewilderingly intricate effects global events (oil prices, the fall of Communism) have had on internal politics of individual countries, and vice versa. Kepel, wisely, refuses to prognosticate. Instead, his achievement is in providing--for the determined reader--a deeply authoritative context for the seemingly inexplicable events of the recent past. --H. O'Billovich --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Afrik.com L'universitaire Gilles Kepel, directeur de recherche au CNRS et responsable des ?©tudes sur le monde musulman ? l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris publie chez Gallimard une ?©tude passionnante intitul?©e : Jihad, expansion et d?©clin de l'islamisme. 1970-2000 : il fallait que ces trente ans soient ?©coul?©s pour que le regard du chercheur puisse saisir avec nettet?© le ph?©nom??ne historique particulier qu'a constitu?© l'expansion, puis le d?©clin, de l'islamisme, dans la fin du vingti??me si??cle. Gilles Kepel a accompagn?© de tr??s pr??s le d?©veloppement des premiers mouvements qui se r?©clam??rent du " jihad ", et voulurent instaurer l'Etat islamique. Il en analyse les succ??s, en d?©cryptant leurs ressorts politiques et sociaux : alliance d'une classe moyenne d?©sireuse d'acqu?©rir une libert?© politique et de classes populaires en qu??te de r?©volution pure et dure. Il en analyse ?©galement l'entrecroisement avec les int?©r??ts des grandes puissances et des puissances r?©gionales : le jeu des Etats-Unis et de l'Arabie Saoudite pour soutenir un islamisme sunnite conservateur, notamment par une surench??re en mati??re de m?“urs, qui fasse pi??ce ? l'islamisme r?©volutionnaire et anti-capitaliste des responsables chiites de T?©h?©ran, puis l'?©mancipation des dirigeants Talibans d'Afghanistan qui, gris?©s de leur victoire contre les forces de l'Union sovi?©tique, ?©chappent aux desseins de leurs protecteurs pour d?©cider eux-m??mes du destin de leur pays, au risque de le faire r?©gresser vers un moyen-??ge fanatis?©. La description des forces politiques et sociales qui s'affrontent et des logiques qu'elles emploient fait toute la force du livre de Gilles Kepel, qui se lit aussi comme une grande fresque historique du dernier demi-si??cle. O?? l'on mesure que l'un des ph?©nom??nes les plus spectaculaires de cette p?©riode, ? l'?©chelon de nombreuses nations du monde musulman, comme ? l'?©chelle des relations internationales, fut repr?©sent?© par la diffusion, l'apog?©e, puis la mise en ?©chec et le reflux, d'une pens?©e politique radicalement nouvelle fond?©e sur le recours exclusif ? l'Islam comme mode d'organisation de la soci?©t?©. Cette pens?©e politique et religieuse ? la fois r?©pondait d'un m??me mouvement au malaise identitaire des jeunes nations musulmanes rejetant l'?©pisode sombre de la colonisation, et aux revendications sociales et politiques v?©cues de mani??re de plus en plus violentes dans des r?©gimes autoritaires constitu?©s, dans les premi??res ann?©es de leur ind?©pendance, par la consolidation n?©cessaire du monde bipolaire h?©rit?© de la guerre froide. La conclusion que Gilles Kepel tire de son analyse minutieuse de l'?©volution des ?©v?©nements et des doctrines, dans l'ensemble du monde musulman, de l'Indon?©sie ? la Mauritanie, en passant par le Pakistan, l'Afghanistan, l'Iran, les Pays du Golfe, l'Egypte, l'Alg?©rie et le Maroc, est relativement optimiste : il per?§oit dans les remises en cause actuelles l'?©bauche d'un mouvement coh?©rent vers une " d?©mocratie musulmane " o?? les aspirations que traduisait l'islamisme pourront ??tre satisfaites par des ?©volutions civiques et des r?©formes sociales, ? condition bien s?»r que les ?©lites actuelles en comprennent l'urgence??¦ "En ce tournant de si??cle et de mill?©naire, il leur revient d'int?©grer les groupes sociaux qui avaient ?©t?© tenus ? l'?©cart depuis les ind?©pendances, et de favoriser l'enfantement d'une sorte de d?©mocratie musulmane, sachant m??ler de mani??re in?©dite culture, religion, et modernit?© politique comme ?©conomique. Ce sc?©nario suppose que les ?©lites rajeunies qui acc??dent au pouvoir, du Maroc de Mohammed VI ? la Jordanie d'Abdallah II, de l'entourage technocratique et militaire du pr?©sident alg?©rien Bouteflika ? celui du pr?©sident indon?©sien " Gusdur " Wahid, soient capables de se projeter dans l'avenir, et de " partager le g??teau " aujourd'hui pour le faire cro?®tre demain. Si ces ?©lites se contentent de tirer un profit imm?©diat et ?©go??ste de la d?©crue de l'islamisme, sans s'engager dans la r?©forme, le monde musulman sera confront?©, ? court terme, ? de nouvelles explosions, que leur langage soit islamiste, ethnique, racial, confessionnel ou populiste." -- Khaled Elraz-- --Ce texte fait r?©f?©rence ? une ?©dition ?©puis?©e ou non disponible de ce titre.

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From Publishers Weekly In this history of fundamentalist Islam, Kepel stands conventional wisdom on its head, asserting that the spate of Islamist violence during the last few years is a result not of the movement's success, but of its failure. A professor at Paris's Institute for Political Studies, Kepel clearly traces the rise of the contemporary Islamist movement from its origins in the mid-20th century through its later appearance in countries such as Malaysia, Algeria and Turkey, as well as in Western Europe. Its apogee, he argues cogently, was the 1979 revolution in Iran that brought about the defeat of the Shah and the rise of a fundamentalist Islamic regime. But while ideologies that fused Islam with political power gained adherents throughout the world in the ensuing 20 years, says Kepel, in no other country were Islamists able to seize and hold power for more than a few years, a factor that he attributes to the ideology's inability to attract both the middle class and the poor. "Muslims no longer view Islamism as the source of utopia, and this more pragmatic vision augurs well for the future," he writes. Despite some outpourings of support, he believes, Osama bin Laden and his followers squandered much of the movement's political capital with its attacks on American institutions, most notably the World Trade Center. Kepel's approach is not without weaknesses in many places around the globe, fundamentalist political Islam has transformed society and politics, even if Islamists have not been able to attain political rule. But amid the plethora of books on Islam released since September 11, this work stands out, both for its erudition and its provocative thesis. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Synopsis The book deals with economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, as both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas, and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are focused. The evolution within arts and sciences, which often seems to return to previously scrapped ideals, is illustrated by detailed case studies, where the importance of changing tastes, rather than progress proper, is emphasized. An understanding for this is attempted by using Darwinian evolution in combination with modern mathematical complexity theory. The use of the latter is, however elementary, so no reader needs to be set back through mathematical formalism. Table of Contents: 1 Culture and Civilization 1 1.1 Current Threats 1 1.2 Reversed Perspective 2 1.3 Civilization: Frazer 4 1.4 Embodiment 5 1.5 Specialization: Castiglione 5 1.6 Development 6 1.7 Circularity 7 1.8 Layout of the Book 7 2 Public Goods 9 2.1 The Concept 9 2.2 Embodied Ideas 10 2.3 Vivaldi's Oevre 10 2.4 Attitudes to Culture 13 2.5 Protection of Originals 17 2.6 The Marais 18 2.7 Paris and Vienna 19 2.8 Piazza San Pietro 20 2.9 Performing Arts 21 2.10 Property Rights 22 2.11 Trade Secrets 23 2.12 The Stock of Knowledge 25 2.13 Knowledge and Capital 26 2.14 Embodied Knowledge 27 2.15 Storage 28 2.16 Accessibility 29 2.17 Compactification 30 2.18 University Cultures 31 3 Patronage 33 3.1 Introduction 33 3.2 Diversity of Institutions 34 3.3 Uncertainty in Production 35 3.4 Risk and Insurance 36 3.5 Patronage in Culture 39 4 Changing Attitudes 45 4.1 Background 45 4.2 Dissipation of Culture 45 4.3 Leisure 48 4.4 Addiction 50 4.5 Dilettantism 52 4.6 Schliemann, Fermat, and Galois 53 4.7 Specialization 57 4.8 The Ultimate Purpose 57 4.9 Florence and Vienna 60 4.10 The Fin-de-Siecle 66 4.11 Nonlinearities 68 4.12 Superstars 69 4.13 Removing Constraints 70 4.14 Historical Monuments 71 4.15 Standardization 72 4.16 Concentration 73 5 Evolution in Science 77 5.1 Logical Empiricism 77 5.2 Newton, Kepler, and Galileo 78 5.3 Refutation 78 5.4 Approximate Truth 80 5.5 Ad Hoc Explanation 81 5.6 Normal Science 81 5.7 Supertheories 83 5.8 Schumpeter 83 5.9 Reductionism 84 5.10 Generalization 85 5.11 Hilbert's Programme 86 5.12 G?¶del 87 5.13 Chaos and Predictability 87 5.14 Laplace 88 5.15 The Weather Factory 88 5.16 Social Engineering 89 5.17 Poincar?© 90 5.18 Linearity 92 5.19 Lorenz 93 5.20 Aesthetic Principles 95 5.21 Maupertuis 95 5.22 Leibnitz 98 5.23 Metaphysics 98 5.24 Aesthetics 99 5.25 Computers and Visuality 103 5.26 Ethics 107 5.27 Pioneers 108 5.28 Pseudoscience 112 5.29 Female Scientists 114 6 Perfection in Art 117 6.1 The Role of Art in the Society 117 6.2 A Unique Opportunity 118 6.3 The Baroque Transition 119 6.4 To Romanticism 120 6.5 Musical Instruments 122 6.6 A Fast Transition 125 6.7 Discovery in Art 126 6.8 Rediscovery in Music 133 6.9 Tuning and Temperament 139 6.10 The Modern Harpsichord 141 6.11 Back to Originals 145 6.12 The Early Music Revival 148 6.13 Meaning and Beauty 150 6.14 Harnoncourt 150 6.15 Rhetoric in Music 152 6.16 Art and Science 152 6.17 Art as Sedative 155 7 Economic Principles 157 7.1 Introduction 157 7.2 B?¶hm-Bawerk and Smith 158 7.3 Increasing Complexity 159 7.4 The Development Tree 160 7.5 Continuous Evolution 163 7.6 Diversification 166 7.7 Property Space 167 7.8 Paretian Ordering 168 7.9 Prices and Progress 169 7.10 Branching Points 170 7.11 Music Automata 173 7.12 Bifurcations 174 7.13 Synergetics 176 7.14 Viable Alternatives 177 7.15 A "Genesis" of Musical Instruments 178 7.16 Summary 182 References 185 Illustrations 189 END

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Educational Research: Why 'What works' doesn't work Summary: Education and educational research, according to the current fashion, are supposed to be concerned with ???what works??™, to the exclusion of all other considerations. All over the world, and particularly in the English-speaking countries, governments look for means of improving ???student achievement??™ as measured by standardized test scores. Although such improvements are often to be welcomed, they do not answer all significant questions about what constitutes good education. Also the research on which they are based is not the only legitimate way to do educational research. Social research, and therefore educational research, cannot ignore the distinctive nature of what it studies: a social activity where questions of meaning and value cannot be eliminated, and where interpretation and judgment play a crucial role. In this book distinguished philosophers and historians of education from 6 countries focus on the problematical nature of the search for ???what works??™ in educational contexts, in practice as well as in theory. Beginning with specific problems, they move on to more general and theoretical considerations, seeking to go beyond over-simple ideas about cause and effect and the rhetoric of performativity that currently has educational thinking in its grip. ???Freedom of inquiry in educational research can no longer be taken for granted. Narrow definitions of what constitutes ???scientific??™ research, funding criteria that enforce particular research methods, and policy decision processes that ignore any research that is not narrowly utilitarian, create a context in many countries that discourages scholarship of a more speculative, exploratory, or critical sort. This book brings together an exceptional combination of international and cross-disciplinary scholars who bring the perspectives of history and philosophy of science to ask, ???How did we arrive at this place? and ???Where is educational research heading? The book illuminates the anti-intellectual consequences of a ???what works??™ mentality in education, and shows that the ostensibly ???scientific??™ revolution in educational research in fact reflects an ahistorical and conceptually muddled understanding of what actually constitutes ???science.??™ This book could not be more timely and important.??™ Nicholas C. Burbules, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor, University of Illinois ???With research increasingly tied to State policies with the instrumental purpose of guiding school reforms, the volume provides an important historical and philosophical questioning of the possibilities, limitations and challenges of education research. Internationally leading scholars engage in a significant conversation that is sophisticated and nuanced for understanding contemporary debates.??™ Thomas S. Popkewitz, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA This publication is realized by the Research Community (FWO-Vlaanderen / Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium) Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education. Evaluation and Evolution of the Criteria for Educational Research. Written for: Students M.A. Educational Sciences, and Ph.D. Educational Sciences; Philosophy students, teachers and researchers in Applied Philosophy and Philosophy of Social Sciences Table of contents Introduction: P. Smeyers and M. DePaepe. 1. The Good Practices of Jozef Emiel Verheyden-Schoolman and Professor of Education at the Ghent University: M. Depaepe, F. Simon & A. van Gorp. 2. Ovide Decroly, a Hero of Education: A. van Gorp. 3. Why Generalizability is not Generalicable: L. Fendler. 4. New Languages and Old Institutions: the Problems of Implementing New School Governance: Daniel Tr?¶hler. 5. Problematisation or Methodology: J.D. Marshall. 6. The Relevance of Irrelevant Research; the Irrelevance of Relevant Research: P. Smeyers. 7. Expectations of What Scientific Research Could (Not) Do: Kathleen Coessens and Jean Paul van Bendegem. 8. Kuhnian Science and Education Research: Analytics of Practice and Training: Lynda Stone. 9. The International and the Excellend in Educational Research: David Bridges. 10. Technical Difficulties: the Workings of Practical Judgement: R. Smith. 11. The Science of Education ??“ Disciplinary Knowledge on Non-Knowledge/Ignorance?: Edwin Keiner. Index. Notes on Contributors.

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Midwest Book Review Parenting: An Ecological Perspective is the first to bring together in one place the results of research on parents and children conducted from the perspective of an ecological paradigm. The number and scope of investigations explicitly or implicitly employing an ecological model has increased substantially over the past two decades, with attention focused on the family system as the primary context of child rearing and its dynamic linkages with other key contexts affecting development: child care, school, parental workplace, neighborhood, class, and culture. Parenting enables readers to view the full range of this domain through its judicious selection of relevant studies, rich and rigorous interpretation and integration of research findings, and promising directions and concrete hypotheses for future research. It demonstrates that the complex task of considering the combined influences of several factors can be accomplished, bringing new knowledge and opening new vistas for the realization of human potential through parenting. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these questions is the ecological perspective developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who recognized that children's development is influenced by the interactions that they have over time with the people, objects, and symbols in their immediate environment. Luster and Okagaki have updated the original text focusing on parental behavior and also included 6 new chapters covering topics such as: *fathers/gender of parent; *children with special needs; *ethnicity and socioeconomic status; and *parent education. The text summarizes the latest research on factors that influence parenting, with each chapter providing a look at one important influence and the linkages among these various factors. An ecological perspective draws attention to the fact that the lives of parents and children are intertwined, and that understanding factors that influence parents is important for understanding the experiences of children.

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