Histoire Des Mots Et Histoire des Sciences de L’Homme

Sans résumé Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire et la formation du vocabulaire des sciences sociales et politiques, dans une perspective d’histoire intellectuelle (XVIII ^e et XIX ^e siècles). Elle a publié Classe. Histoire du mot et genèse du concept, des physiocrates aux historiens de la Restauration, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1996, et codirigé avec Jacques Guilhaumou le Dictionnaire des usages socio-politiques 1770–1815, fasc. 7: ? Notions théoriques ?, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2003. Laurent Loty anime la composante ? Textes et savoirs, transdisciplinarité et politique ? de l’équipe d’accueil du CELAM (Centre d’études des littératures anciennes et modernes) et enseigne à l’Université Rennes II (Département Lettres, place du recteur Henri-Le-Moal, CS 24307, 35043 Rennes Cedex; loty@ccr.jussieu.fr). Il est président d’honneur de la Société fran?aise pour l’histoire des sciences de l’homme. Ses recherches portent sur la genèse des idées politiques contemporaines à partir de l’Ancien Régime, et sur l’histoire des mots et les enjeux de la transdisciplinarité. Il a notamment publié ? Pour l’indisciplinarité?, dans Douthwaite (Julia) et Vidal (Mary), dir., The Interdisciplinary Century, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2005, p. 245–259; et codirigé, avec Isabelle Brouard-Arends, Littérature et engagement durant la Révolution fran?aise (Rennes, Presses universitaire de Rennes, à para?tre).     

Histoire de la logique floue une approche sociologique des pratiques de démonstration

Starting from an historical case study, this article addresses the general issue of the development of a social history of mathematics and logic. It aims at giving an account of certain features of recent history of fuzzy logic. For this purpose, it develops an approach based on a sociology of methods of demonstration and on the material analysis of logical activity, in particular of writing and reading activities. The formation of a social history of forms of demonstration is outlined.     

Une Histoire de L’universalité des Matrices Mathématiques

International matrix theory of the 1930s is influenced by multiple phenomena and may be analyzed by looking at how local practices were globalized via pathways which manifested a short-term reappropriation between the two world wars of work developed over the long term. This article interrogates the constitution of the universality of matrix terminology and focuses particularly on phenomena of the collective circulation of texts which present cultural aspects proper to networks with complex identities.     

Histoire de quelques miroirs déformants orient-occident

The paper brings to light a literary fabrication cast as a “chinoiserie» published in Paris in 1788 and tentatively explores its implicit message. The fabrication implies the title—allusion to the pamphlet written by the radical Morelly then commonly credited to Diderot—, the author—the Chinese philosopher contemporary of Socrates—, the alleged translation—which could never have occurred—, and the commentary attributed to a Jesuit of the French mission in China. The genuine author of the fabrication, a plea for the abolishion of the death penalty and a satire on the legal institution and the Clergy, is Louis Lavicomterie who later will be a member of the Montagne and will vote the death of Louis XVI. He fathered the book during the French Revolution. The reconstitution of the historical context helps to decipher the cryptic purpose of this chinese message. Behind Confucius, Lavicomterie has introduced Voltaire. The text reflects the moral and intellectual expectations at the eve of the turmoil: the increasing search for secularization and the rejection of the fundamental divine rights of the Ancien Régime.     

Histoire et dialectique des idéologies et significations religieuses

The aim of this article is to consider the possibility of a new analytical methodology that could include multidisciplinary approaches into the study of religious ideologies and practices, taking benefit from historical and ethnographic interpretations, but also from linguistic and philological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological considerations. If one tries to study the role or function played by religion in society, considering human beings as builders of symbolic worlds, one should set out to analyze, if not rules, at least general processes of the religious readjustment with respect to the rest of social life, whenever the gap is much too wide, or the religious transfer from one realm to another entirely different.     

L’Histoire, la Fable et le Fabuleux Analyse de la notion de fabuleux

Paul Hazard has clearly shown the concomitance ofThe Crisis of the European consciousness in various domains, under diverse aspects and diverse interrogations. This crisis, these new issues which arise concern as well the concept of temporality which was then in vogue. This article seeks to study its emergence through a specific question which concerns the status and the significance to be given fables and myths which we have inherited from Antiquity. Thanks to the studies by abbé Anselme, Fontenelle, Nicolas Fréret, the chevalier de La Barre and Lévesque de Burigny of the notion of the marvelous, as found in fables, we can better grasp the development of an historical concept.