Philosophy

As a semiotic being, producing sense, man lives in a symbolic universe, where language plays an essential part. For a writer, the choice of a "major" language, like French, is problematic because it represents the beginning of a complex process, sometimes conflicting, involving two or several cultural traditions, history and life experience. But it is also a chance to define a francophone polyphonic "space", beyond all geographical or institutional considerations, beyond physical space or concrete time, where a writer (like the Romanian-Swiss one, Marius Daniel Popescu) feels free to develop, throughout a language which is different in many ways from the classical French, a new literature, disregarding traditional genres and usual constraints.

For the last sixty years, the French novel has sought for one or several aesthetic paths, failing to do so and sputtering into lots of individual perspectives, with an autofictional ruling pattern and with an increasing role of the media. Contemporary novel seems to have forgotten or not to care anymore about being a privileged means to question and to understand the world.

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In this paper, we aim at a transdisciplinary approach on atomicity. We especially focus on the mathematical perspective and we highlight the intimate, usual, defining property of the atom of being, in a sense, the essential indestructible, indivisible, irreducible, minimal, and self-similar unity. Using notions, concepts, and results, we try to answer the question \What is the atom?" from a mathematical perspective, offering at the same time a series of possible interpretations and meanings that exceed its strict limits.

La trilogie narrative de Rachid Mimouni fait ressortir des nuances interprétatives multiples, se réclamant d'une pensée complexe qui englobe plusieurs dimensions : linguistique, identitaire, culturelle, idéologique, historique. L'héritage traditionnel et l'adstrat français se combinent pour donner naissance à une littérature riche, fracturée, mais ambivalente, infusée de saveurs variées, qui se forge des moyens adéquats d'expression d'une vision moderne et somme toute unitaire.

A primera vista es difícil encontrar dos personali-­ dades, dos estilos y dos obras más diferentes que las del pensador francés de origen rumano, Emil Cioran, y las del escritor canadiense francófono, acerca de la identidad-conceptos densos y fecundos, ante el cruzamiento del singular y del colectivo, del consciente y del subconsciente-ponen en juego nociones comunes: representación, pertenencia, ser, otro, reconocimiento y (re) construcción, conformidad y diferencia, ejes de búsqueda que pueden echar por tierra el estudio de cada uno de los escritores mencionados. E igualmente para todos aquellos que los cambiarían al principio dentro de su propio escudo hermenéutico: el nihilista subversivo, vigilante de un mun-­ do en deriva, y el prosista para jóvenes, cínico y amargo, tratando el dicho derivado con los medios del siglo XXI. Al fondo de todo esto hay la misma distancia consigo mismo, la misma angustia vital, el mismo gusto de la consumación a toda velocidad, del sensacionalismo ...

From the Hindu Vedas and the ancient Greek philosophy to the modern transdisciplinary vision and complex thought are solid proofs that the identification of the truly indivisible, ultimate particle. Science has reached nowadays the frontiers of metaphysics, and quantum physics, the levels of reality, the fractals, the holographic universe, the standard model of cosmology, etc. cause human beings to ask themselves again the questions that science cannot answer: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?

The term “knowledge” is difficult to understand when we want to define it. This is why “knowledge” has been reconstructed as a cluster concept that points out relevant features but that is not adequately captured by any definition. As long as knowledge can only be situated in forms of time, it is doomed to remain truncated and to manifest disjointly. Knowledge’s lack of unity is expressed into different forms of knowledge. Fragmented by the cutouts that allowed its manifestation, knowledge is - whatever type of knowledge we talk about - incomplete, subjective, limited and fragmentary and, in most cases, it is not possible to understand exhaustively a specific domain. That is why, in this paper, we pursue a transdisciplinary exercise, involving science and religion, and an interdisciplinary one, involving disciplines and theories found in the complex systems theory.