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Ainsi les loups se sont déguisés en agneaux – et même en bergers. Ceux qui devaient prendre soin du troupeau en ont fait leur pâture. Et nous voilà sidérés, au point que toute considération semble impossible. Le plus souvent, en effet, nous sommes pris entre le journalistique et l'hagiographique : d'un côté, le fait brut nous laisse en position de spectateur désabusé ; de l'autre, le saint tombé (l'impossible !) nous pousse à nous abuser nous-mêmes, courant tantôt au lynchage tantôt au déni… Ce petit livre tente d'échapper à pareille alternative. Revenant notamment sur l'« affaire » des frères Philippe et de Jean Vanier, il en propose une lecture biblique : ne rien minimiser de ce qu'elle a de grave, ne pas négliger ce qu'elle recèle de grâce. Ne confirme-t-elle pas une Bonne Nouvelle qui nous avait depuis longtemps avertis du pire ? Gardez-vous des faux prophètes, ils viennent en vêtements de brebis… Aussi nous donne-t-elle de penser le risque inouï de l'Incarnation, et de remettre en cause certains aspects de la spiritualité récente : l'esprit d'enfance, la compassion qui excuse tout, gages donnés à l'irresponsabilité, boulevard pour ces « monstres mous » dont Bernanos annonçait l'empire. S'il est un bon usage des abus, c'est de faire en sorte qu'ils nous interrogent personnellement. Les apôtres furent envoyés comme des agneaux au milieu de loups. Il faut en conclure que l'Église n'est constituée que de loups convertis (et tant mieux ! sans quoi nous ne serions que des moutons bêlant). Gare à nous, donc, et à cette petite gueule carnassière qui s'ouvre à même nos coeurs. Fabrice Hadjadj a reçu le prix Montherlant de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts et le prix cardinal Lustiger de l'Académie française pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. Directeur de l'Institut Philanthropos (Fribourg, Suisse), il a été membre du Conseil pontifical pour les laïcs

"In Truth About Trade, international scholar, jurist, statesman, and activist James Bacchus offers a thought-provoking collection of some of the essays he has written on international trade and international law since he completed his tenure as one of the founders and twice the chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The breadth of these essays ranges from his visionary proposals for expanding world trade and enhancing the international rule of law by modernizing the WTO-based multilateral world trading system, to his thoughts on the abhorrence and illegality of torture and on the necessity of courage in defense of human freedom. Written as public commentary during the past two decades, these essays, because of the ideas and the observations they contain, remain highly relevant to the international debate today. In his thinking about how best we should shape the legal framework of the world, the author remains ahead of his time"--

"In light of changing digital communication, this book addresses issues including a shift from a focus on oral to written practices; the rise of new communities of practice and communicative domains; and the need for resulting shifts in language policy and teaching methods when applied to minority (or autochthonous) heritage languages"--

"The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday personal life - driving us to engage more with platforms than with people, a new state of constant disconnection that we cannot escape. Overflowing email inboxes, deluges of mobile phone notifications and torrents of social media posts--the flow of communication in its abundance is today's individualized interface for interpersonal and professional practices. Communication technologies and their use are both the needle and the thread of the wider social tapestry of everyday contemporary life. This ever-changing communication environment is where the neoliberal economic policies of the West and the commercial imperatives of the platform and data-mining industries meet. It is where the contradictions they produce can be felt day-to-day by citizens-turned-users. How does it feel to live at the pressure points of intersecting economic realities and why does it matter? Drawing on extensive sociological research, Burchell examines how individuals try to manage connection as participation in everyday life and how, on a larger scale, the ever-expanding knowledge, communication, and data-driven economies depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate communication needs. With so much time spent managing the pressures of our communication environment, we often overlook the way media technologies produce systemic tensions that are reshaping how we interact with each other and what we understand to be social connection today"--

When the 13th-century Coptic official al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic history for his own consolation. His work, which drew from a vast array of sources, enjoyed enduring success among various readerships: Oriental Christians, in Arabic-speaking communities but also in Ethiopia; Mamluk historians, including Ibn Ḫaldūn and al-Maqrīzī; and early modern Europe. A major instance of Christian-Muslim interaction in the pre-modern era, Ibn al-ʿAmīd's chronography is still unpublished in its pre-Islamic part. This volume edits, analyzes, and translates the section from Adam to the Achaemenids