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Le Parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by the French poet and essayist Francis Ponge. It was first published in 1942. The title has been translated into English as Taking the Side of Things and as The Nature of Things. [n 1]
Jean Messagier (13 July 1920 – 10 September 1999) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet. Jean Messagier had his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in 1947. [3]
Le Parti des choses (lit. On the Side of Things) a.k.a. Bardot et Godard (lit. Bardot and Godard) or Le Parti des choses: Bardot et Godard [1] is a 1964 short documentary directed by Jacques Rozier on the making of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris. It is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of Le Mépris. [2]
De rerum natura (Latin: [deː ˈreːrʊn naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemic assumptions, ways of thinking, which determine what is truth and what is acceptable discourse about a ...
On the nature of things: Blank verse. 1950: Brown, W. Hannaford: Lucretius on the Nature of Things: Imitative dactyllic hexameters. 1951: Latham, Ronald E. On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics rev. by John Godwin (1994) ISBN 978-0140446104) Prose. 1956: Winspear, Alban Dewes: De rerum natura, by Lucretius, the Roman poet of science ...
It was first published in French as Les Choses : Une histoire des années soixante in September 1965 by Éditions Julliard in the "Lettres nouvelles" series directed by Maurice Nadeau. [4] [5] In 1968, the first English translation by Helen Lane was published by Grove Press under the title Les Choses: A Story of the Sixties. [4]
Natura non facit saltus [1] [2] (Latin for "nature does not make jumps") has been an important principle of natural philosophy.It appears as an axiom in the works of Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays, IV, 16: [2] "la nature ne fait jamais des sauts", "nature never makes jumps"), one of the inventors of the infinitesimal calculus (see Law of Continuity).