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French cuisine and national identity

Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitan comments on the news, tagged , on 30 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I read in this week’s French equivalent to Time magazine Le Point an interview of gourmet critique Christian Millau, creator of the famous restaurant guide of the best restaurants, that ‘French cuisine does not exist.’
Actually, it is a point of view I came up with long ago after a few thoughts based on my travels, [...]

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Back in France: diversity and integration

Posted in Cosmopolitan comments on the news, Cosmopolitan experiences, Research themes, tagged , , , , on 29 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am back in France and have been staying for a month now. I left about 7-8 years ago and only came back a few days twice a year for season holidays to visit my parents. My contact with French politics was limited to following the news sporadically in the dailies, and I only kept [...]

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Obama the first cosmopolitan politician

Posted in Cosmopolitan comments on the news, tagged , , , on 20 October 2008 | 3 Comments »

Will Obama be the first cosmopolitan elected official? Everything points to an affirmative answer — on both counts. Surely, he is the first ever to be so multicultural with a Kenyan father, a US citizen mother, born in Hawaii, raised in Jakarta. He is also the first to make campaign abroad, the first who understands [...]

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Rousseau et le paradoxe d’une pensée cosmopolitique anti-cosmopolite

Posted in Cosmopolitanism, Research projects, Research themes, tagged , , , , , , , , on 19 October 2008 | 1 Comment »

Dans la pensée de Rousseau, il y a un paradoxe sur lequel on se penche de plus en plus. Une certaine acrimonie face aux cosmopolites, alors que Rousseau exprime une pensée cosmopolitique en reprenant le grand projet de Saint-Pierre d’une paix universelle et perpétuelle. Projet raillé par un truculent Voltaire il est vrai, dans son [...]

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Cosmopolite, cosmopolitain, cosmopolitisme: définitions et problèmes

Posted in Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, Research projects, Research themes, tagged , , , , , , , , on 17 October 2008 | 8 Comments »

Que faut-il comprendre aujourd’hui des mots cosmopolite, cosmopolitisme ? D’abord si l’on reprend ‘histoire de l’apparition de ces mots, il faut bien se rendre à l’évidence que notre conception actuelle est liée au paradigme dominant du nationalisme qui nous pousse à y voir une opposition entre cosmopolitisme et nationalisme. J’avance la thèse, en fait, que [...]

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Scandinavian literary weekend

Posted in Cosmopolitan experiences, tagged , , , , , on 13 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

This weekend was under the sign of cosmopolitan literature.
First of all, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio received the Nobel Prize in literature: ‘author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.’ This was the occasion for me to deepen my acquaintance with Le Clézio’s works. I [...]

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Thesis graded

Posted in MA thesis, Research projects, tagged , , , , , , , , on 7 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

My thesis has been graded and I received the best grade possible in the Danish system: 12. That makes it an A in the ECTS system. Plus an excellent assessment of my work by my supervisor and my ‘censor’. I am very happy and very proud. Still, it does not give me a relevant [...]

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