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International audience ; An outstanding political and social thinker as well as an influential landscape architect of the 19th century, Frederick Law Olmsted is known for designing numerous parks in the United States, the most famous being Central Park. He firmly believed in the spatial necessities of democracy, and strongly advocated equal access to all parks regardless of social class. Today, however, due to neoliberal policies, the evolution of the governance of public spaces has resulted in the emergence of public-private partnerships and hybrid forms of administration that limit full public access. New urban spaces, such as Business Improvement Districts, where associations of non-elected business leaders manage the space that surrounds them, indicate the end of a clear distinction between public and private spheres. Therefore, it is tempting to say that Olmsted's vision has been ignored. This article addresses the social and democratic consequences of such a shift within the urban planning of public parks and spaces. Its aim is to assess the relevance of Olmsted's philosophy in an era of privatization of public spaces.

International audience ; An outstanding political and social thinker as well as an influential landscape architect of the 19th century, Frederick Law Olmsted is known for designing numerous parks in the United States, the most famous being Central Park. He firmly believed in the spatial necessities of democracy, and strongly advocated equal access to all parks regardless of social class. Today, however, due to neoliberal policies, the evolution of the governance of public spaces has resulted in the emergence of public-private partnerships and hybrid forms of administration that limit full public access. New urban spaces, such as Business Improvement Districts, where associations of non-elected business leaders manage the space that surrounds them, indicate the end of a clear distinction between public and private spheres. Therefore, it is tempting to say that Olmsted's vision has been ignored. This article addresses the social and democratic consequences of such a shift within the urban planning of public parks and spaces. Its aim is to assess the relevance of Olmsted's philosophy in an era of privatization of public spaces.

Studies on political legitimacy in China have recently fallen under the influence of political philosophy and legal positivism. However, analyzing Chinese politics requires to build on Max Weber's sociological heritage in order to understand the complex dynamics of political legitimacy in contemporary China. Liturgical domination and panoptical domination are two new ideal types put forward by this analysis. Both these new analytical tools are extremely useful in shedding light on how individual consent could enable powerful forms of political domination to make sense of social life and to secure society. Adapted from the source document.

International audience ; An outstanding political and social thinker as well as an influential landscape architect of the 19th century, Frederick Law Olmsted is known for designing numerous parks in the United States, the most famous being Central Park. He firmly believed in the spatial necessities of democracy, and strongly advocated equal access to all parks regardless of social class. Today, however, due to neoliberal policies, the evolution of the governance of public spaces has resulted in the emergence of public-private partnerships and hybrid forms of administration that limit full public access. New urban spaces, such as Business Improvement Districts, where associations of non-elected business leaders manage the space that surrounds them, indicate the end of a clear distinction between public and private spheres. Therefore, it is tempting to say that Olmsted's vision has been ignored. This article addresses the social and democratic consequences of such a shift within the urban planning of public parks and spaces. Its aim is to assess the relevance of Olmsted's philosophy in an era of privatization of public spaces.

" Unknown consequences of the chemical philosophy of Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont (1578-1644) in Central and East Europe. Panegyric of Van Helmont by the Rumanian scientist Demeter Cantemir (1701)
At the end of the XVIIth century and in the beginning of the XVIIIth, the philosophical and chemical thought of Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont was alive in Central and East Europe, while its influence in West Europe was very attenuated.
We know indeed that the helmontian doctrine was taught at the Greek Academy in Constantinople and that Demeter Cantemir (1673-1753), Rumanian historian, philosopher and scientist, who was educated at that school, was an enthusiastic disciple of Van Helmont.
Cantemir planned to translate the works of the Belgian scientist into Rumanian. He edited in 1701 IOANNIS BAPTISTAE VAN HELMONT encomium in autorem et virtutem doctrinae eius, intended as a panegyric to the thought of the master. He is also the author of an important unpublished work I. B. Van Helmont, physices universalis doctrina, in which he explains the philosophical and iatrochemical ideas of Van Helmont.

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