The purpose of this thesis is to study Denis Diderot's two masterpieces, Le Neveu de Rameau and Jacques le Fataliste, from the point of view of human relations. The thesis seeks to show what Diderot feels are the bases for conduct between members of a given social class, as seen in examples from Le Neveu de Rameau and Jacques le Fataliste.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Münster im Westfalen, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 256-280. Notes bibliogr.

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Histoire--Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 1992. Titre de soutenance : Denis Gavini, 1819-1916, le préfet de Nice sous le Second Empire. / Bibliogr. p. 350-355. Notes bibliogr.

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The year 1759 saw the arrival in Paris of the abbe Galiani as secretary to the Neapolitan Embassy. His initial feelings of disappointment diminished as he was welcomed in the most important salons of Paris, where he met the principal Encyclopedistes, including Diderot. / This thesis is a thorough study of the intellectual and human association between Diderot and Galiani: the circumstances of their encounters, especially between 1760 and 1769 when Galiani was forced to return to Naples; their mutual friends, and the areas of common interest which attracted these two encyclopaedic minds, such as literature, especially the theatre, the arts and Antiquity, science, economics, politics and philosophy. / Along with a systematic analysis of these fields of mutual interest, the aspects of Galiani's personality which attracted Diderot to him have been studied. Particular emphasis is placed on what Diderot learned from Galiani, especially in economics and politics, and the role Galiani played in the crystallization of Diderot's thought. This is all the more significant in that the Diderot-Galiani friendship was consolidated at a critical point in the development of the philosopher's thought.

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This PhD in Music Composition is in the form of a written dissertation plus a series of electroacoustic music compositions on Audio CD. The thesis develops the “Segregation, Integration, Assimilation and Meaning” (SIAM) framework for the analysis of acousmatic musical works derived from research on auditory cognition. This framework is applied to a detailed analysis of Denis Smalley’s “Wind Chimes”. The dissertation finally asserts that the framework developed for the analysis of acousmatic music has been demonstrated to be effective and it discusses some implications for future research. (For complete abstract open document)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-244).

Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Zürich. - Bibliogr. p. 174-188. -