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Rezension von: Political science in history: research programs and political traditions. / James Farr ... (ed.). - Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1995

The paper is a transcription of the speech given by the author in acceptance of the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Bucharest. The discourse is at the same time a personal statement of commitment to the study of Central and Eastern European politics and society, and an appraisal of the problématique of the researches conducted in and on the area. The assertion is that, despite a relative decline of the intellectual interest in the region of mainstream political science, Central and Eastern Europe might still provide valuable insights into the core issue of the discipline: the nature and predicament of democracy, the production of political regimes, how do cleavages appear and how they can be observed, how does politics affect the make-up of societies.

Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, then Giorgio Agamben questioned the idea of norm in the State faced with violence, together with the question of exception. Now the state of exception comes down to dealing juridically with political matters and ignoring what really or illusorily triggers off the state of exception, namely war. A proposition to grasp both the difficulty for law to fit to the sudden appearance of violence and the outburst of the various forms of war listed in history, consists in leaving aside the idea of juridical fiction and replacing it by that of "political fictions". Thus the notion of norm will be substituted with that -- more appropriate to describe violence -- of "reference" to standard war to assess real wars. Only on that condition can exception and its starting element be considered anew, as well as the fundamental indetermination between external and internal war. Adapted from the source document.

Cet article décrit comment des ingénieurs de l'industrie et de la recherche ont pris conscience de la nécessité de dépasser les limites de leur formation en s'ouvrant aux sciences de l'homme et de la société. Les auteurs s'efforcent de préciser le type de savoir formalisé et argumenté dont les futurs ingénieurs devraient disposer, en illustrant leur point de vue par deux exemples, celui de l'automatisation et celui de l'ingénierie concourante. Pour tenter d'appréhender la mixité socio-technique de l'univers de l'ingénieur, les auteurs proposent un cadre de réflexion interdisciplinaire qui repose sur une définition de la notion de travail faisant une place à la responsabilité et à l'organisation.