Sophie Coignard's Books

French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

To write this secret history, the authors questioned participants and observers of arcane groups in every milieu and every class in France. From the mountain "red necks" to the "brotherhood" of the Mediterranean Coast, from the Charente clan to the new capitalists' club, they lift the veil from all these subterranean understandings that glue together society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Publisher

Algora Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1892941023

ISBN 13

9781892941022

The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

By: Sophie Roux

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

By: Sophie Roux

The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

9400743440

ISBN 13

9789400743441

Articulating Difference

Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

By: Sophie Salvo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Articulating Difference

Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

By: Sophie Salvo

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the inextricability of gender and language. Taking German discourses on language as her focus, she argues that we are not the inventors but, rather, the inheritors and adapters of the notion that gender and language are interrelated. Particularly during the long nineteenth century, ideas about sexual differences shaped how language was understood, classified, and analyzed. As Salvo explains, philosophers asserted the patriarchal origins of language, linguists investigated “women’s languages” and grammatical gender, and literary Modernists imagined “feminine” sign systems, and in doing so they not only deemed sex-based divisions to be necessary categories of language but also produced a plethora of gendered tropes and fictions, which they used both to support their claims and delimit their disciplines. Articulating Difference charts new territory, revealing how gendered conceptions of language make possible the misogynistic logic of exclusion that underlies arguments claiming, for example, that women cannot be great orators or writers. While Salvo focuses on how male scholars aligned language study with masculinity, she also uncovers how women responded, highlighting the contributions of understudied nineteenth-century works on language that women wrote even as they were excluded from academic opportunities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

279

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226827712

ISBN 13

9780226827711

French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

French Connections

Networks of Influence

By: Sophie Coignard,Marie-Thérèse Guichard

They were born in the same region, went to the same schools, fought the same fights and made the same mistakes in youth. They share the same morals, the same fantasies of success and the same taste for money. They act behind the scenes to help each other, boosting careers, monopolizing business and information, making money, conspiring and, why not, becoming Presidents! From Corsica, the Corree, Auvergne, Brittany and Savoy, former "collaborationists" and free-masons; homosexuals and aristocrats; tax inspectors and ex-Trotskyites; hunters and golfers; Jews and Protestants ... they all belong to a network, and sometimes to several. Multiple and unofficial, these places of complicity draw a hidden geography of French society. They explain more surely than official communiques the decisions, the nominations, the transactions that take place. To write this secret history of networks, Sophie Coignard and Marie-Thérèse Guichard questioned actors and observers of these secret solidarities in every milieu, every region, every class. From the "Make Yourself Comfortable" brotherhood to the laundry "gang." the mountain "red necks" to the "brothers" of the Mediterranean Coast, from the clan from the Charente to the club of new capitalists, heirs to the thieves' cloaks to plotters in priests' cassocks ... they lift the veil from all these subterranean understandings which glue together France.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Publisher

Algora Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1892941163

ISBN 13

9781892941169

Mafia Chic

By: Alexandre Wickham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mafia Chic

By: Alexandre Wickham

Au cœur de ce roman, la rencontre inattendue entre deux France. Celle des privilégiés et l'autre, qui découvre avec effarement ce que dissimule la course au pouvoir. Auteurs du best-seller L'Omertà française, Sophie Coignard et Alexandre Wickham démontent avec férocité les rouages et les secrets de ce milieu qu'ils connaissent bien. Au centre de l'intrigue, un couple défie la Mafia chic qui nous manipule. Entre liaisons dangereuses, trahisons et représailles, les chances de survie semblent minces. Et pourtant...

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

377

Publisher

Livre de Poche

Published Date

ISBN 10

2253118729

ISBN 13

9782253118725

Only Joseph: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

By: Sophie Hannah

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Only Joseph: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

By: Sophie Hannah

A story from Sophie Hannah to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

HarperCollins UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

0008303282

ISBN 13

9780008303280

Book's by Sophie Coignard

French Connections

French Connections

The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

Articulating Difference

Articulating Difference

French Connections

French Connections

Mafia Chic

Mafia Chic

Only Joseph: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Only Joseph: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email