[This book is written in French.]   Pour une Histoire de L'Imaginaire est Ã  la source de toutes choses humaines, de la politique Ã  la religion ou la science en passant par les rapports sociaux. Mais peut-on Ã©crire l’histoire de cette fonction de l’esprit et en dÃ©gager les lois?  Lucian Boia le croit et essaie de le prouver.  AprÃ¨s avoir cernÃ© les contours de l’imaginaire et en avoir prÃ©cisÃ© le sens, il le montre Ã  l’oeuvre Ã  travers l’imaginaire scientifique, l’espace, les humanitÃ©s autres, les visions apocalyptiques, les millÃ©narismes, les mythes fondateurs, les mythologies totalitaires…C’est la premiÃ¨re fois qu’un historien tente de rassembler dans un panorama cette diversitÃ© dÃ©routante de manifestations en vue de dÃ©finir les structures et la dynamique propres Ã  l’imaginaire et de saisir ainsi sa logique spÃ©cifique. L’histoire de l’imaginaire : une nouvelle approche de l’histoire des hommes.

Pour Une Histoire de L'Imaginaire (Verite Des Mythes,) (French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Boia, Lucian

Social Sciences

iUniverse

Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture, history, language, politics and ethnic identity. Boia introduces us to the heroes and myths of Romanian history, and provides an enlightening account of the history of Romanian Communism. He shows how modernization and the influence of the West have divided the nation - town versus country, nationalists versus pro-European factions, the elite versus the masses - and argues that Romania today is in chronic difficulty as it tries to fix its identity and envision a future for itself. The book concludes with a tour of Bucharest, whose houses, streets and public monuments embody Romania's traditional values and contemporary contradictions.

Romania (Topographics)

Travel

Reaktion Books

Forever Young offers a wide-ranging survey of the notion of longevity, from antiquity to the present. The author looks at the many manifestations of one of humanity’s most powerful dreams: the prolongation of life and youth with immortality as a final objective. Using a variety of sources – religion, folk traditions, science, literature and art – the book shows on the one hand the persistence of the human spirit (the desire for longevity is revealed as an extremely stable archetype throughout history) and on the other, the innovations specific to each period or culture due to the progress of science and differing ideologies and attitudes. Nowadays, prolonging life and youth has become a major goal of society due to a combination of several factors: the spectacular increase in life expectancy; the advances of science and especially genetics; and, finally, the decline of religious belief in life after death, emphasizing the only remaining certainty – corporeal life. The author, a specialist in mythology and imagination, approaches his subject in an accessible and engaging way.

Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Why is the Weather Channel one of the top ranked cable networks? Why was The Day After Tomorrow a summer blockbuster? The Weather in the Imagination seeks to answer these and other questions about our fascination with the weather, as Lucian Boia offers an intriguing analysis of the theories, scenarios, and psychoses caused by climate. Boia here examines the cultural influence of weather through the lens of anthropology and psychology, history, and catastrophe. He first investigates how human diversity is linked to weather and why people differ according to their native climates. He then looks at how climate can explain the dynamics of historical progress and the rise and fall of civilizations, citing how Nazis used it to justify the superiority of the "Aryan" race. And what can destroy or induce panic in a society more effectively than a good climatic jolt? Boia investigates the social upheaval caused by catastrophic weather conditions, citing the most gripping example in human history, the Biblical Flood. The Weather in the Imagination is a thought-provoking chronicle of how humans throughout history have been bewildered, infuriated, and often terrified by the weather.

The Weather in the Imagination

Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire (Vérité des mythes) (French Edition)

BELLES LETTRES

A premiere vue, la Roumanie est un pays deroutant. Peuple latin, mais dont la langue a evolue independamment des autres membres de la famille romane, englobant de nombreux elements slaves et orientaux. Mosaique de regions, chacune avec son histoire, qui ont fini par se fondre dans une nation. Une permanente condition de frontiere, en marge des grands ensembles politiques et de civilisation du continent. Attitudes contrastees de repli sur soi et d'ouverture vers les autres. Une societe preponderement paysanne brisee par le communisme et reconstruite sur un autre plan. Reapprentissage difficile de la democratie et de l'economie de marche, et une marche lente, mais effective vers l'integration europeenne... Le lecteur francais devra aussi se rappeler que ce pays a ete et reste un des plus francophones et francophiles de l'Europe. Ce n'est pas par hasard que Bucarest a ete surnomme le &ldquo petit Paris &rdquo. Lucian Boia, qui a inaugure un courant novateur dans l'historiographie contemporaine, nous donne ici la premiere veritable histoire de la Roumanie et nous explique pourquoi la Roumanie est ce qu'elle est, c'est-a-dire un pays si different des autres. Professeur d'histoire a l'Universite de Bucarest, il a deja publie aux Belles Lettres Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire (1998), La Mythologie scientifique du communisme (2000) et Le Mythe de la Democratie (2002). Traduit du roumain par Laurent Rossin. Nouvelle edition 2007 revue et augmentee.

La Roumanie: Un Pays a la Frontiere de l'Europe (Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents) (French Edition)

History

Europe

Les Belles Lettres

Encore un ouvrage sur le climat? Oui, mais d'une facture tres differente de tout ce qu'on a pu ecrire jusqu'ici sur ce sujet. C'est en effet la premiere fois qu'un historien se penche sur l'ensemble des theories, des scenarios et des psychoses climatiques, de l'Antiquite a nos jours, afin de decrypter le mecanisme mental et ideologique de ces constructions et attitudes.Le psychodrame du climat ne commence pas avec le rechauffement global celui-ci n'est que la manifestation la plus recente d'une histoire longue et riche en rebondissements. D'un siecle a l'autre, on a presque tout explique et justifie par le climat: la diversite des hommes et des civilisations, la marche de l'histoire, les accidents de parcours, les " fins du monde ." Le Deluge prefigure deja les effets presumes de l'actuel rechauffement de la planete.Pour Lucian Boia, il ne s'agit ni d'infirmer ni de valider telle ou telle theorie, telle ou telle prediction. Il veut simplement montrer que, independamment de toute verite objective, c'est l'esprit humain qui mene le jeu: les penchants quasi permanents de l'imaginaire, les ideologies, les mentalites... Par ses multiples reconstitutions du passe et de l'avenir climatique, l'homme exprime ses choix, ses peurs et ses esperances.

L'Homme Face Au Climat: L'Imaginaire de la Pluie Et Du Beau Temps (Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries.

Central European University Pr

This book stems from the idea that there is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history. Boia points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.

Central European University Press

Mitologia științifică a comunismului (Procesul comunismului) (Romanian Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Humanitas

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Pour Une Histoire de L'Imaginaire (Verite Des Mythes,) (French Edition)

Romania (Topographics)

Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present

The Weather in the Imagination

Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire (Vérité des mythes) (French Edition)

La Roumanie: Un Pays a la Frontiere de l'Europe (Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents) (French Edition)

L'Homme Face Au Climat: L'Imaginaire de la Pluie Et Du Beau Temps (Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents) (French Edition)

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness

Mitologia științifică a comunismului (Procesul comunismului) (Romanian Edition)