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Diss.--Biologie--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1998. / Bibliogr. p. 94-106. Glossaire.

Paleoanthropology has been beset by controversies concerning the number of hominid species at any given time. This thesis examines the case for one or more species from the time of early H. erectus using the biological and evolutionary species concepts as frames of reference. To accomplish this task, measurements were made on casts of African and Asian fossil hominid skulls with previously published data used as both a control and a supplement. Due to the fragmentary nature of the data and the small sample size, principle components analysis was used to create a usable data set. Linear regression was then used to calculate mean differences between the African and Asian fossil samples for PC 1 (a derived factor denoted overall cranial size) and XCB (maximum cranial breadth). This data was then compared to that of 28 pair-wise comparisons of eight modem human populations from the same general regions as the fossils. Since a number of these comparisons had mean differences greater or equal to that of the fossils, the finding are suggestive of the fossils all being from the same species, Homo erectus. / Department of Anthropology

Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2005

Zugl.: Linz, Universiẗat, Diplomarbeit, 2006.

Tübingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2001.

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This essay investigates possible benefits of using Michel Foucault’s theories to understand how subjects constitute themselves as consumers. Foucault’s analysis of the neo-liberal notion of homo economicus, a subject of individual interest and an entrepreneur producing its own satisfaction, is discussed in relation to contemporary consumption. The essay departs from the hypothesis that Foucault’s diverse theory of subjectivation can bridge over opposing but equally limiting description of consuming subjects offered by Marxism and liberalism. Building on Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics and the ethics of the later Foucault, the possibility of liberation from dominance, offered from opposing positions by Marxism and liberalism, is challenged. From the perspective of Foucault, subjects are constituted in relations of power that always involve freedom, understood as the individual subject’s ability to participate in and influence these relations. Further, these relations are intertwined with games of truth, certain rationalities that are linked to institutions of power. This essay argues that the neo-liberal “truth” of consumer choice structure contemporary relations of power that are integrated parts of the subject, for good and worse. For the later Foucault’s ethics, as well as his critique, dispute the extent to which we are governed, and urge us to practice freedom.

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Une question posée en 1970 par la critique française est le point de départ de ce travail : « y-a-t-il des écrivains en Albanie? » Cette thèse s'emploie à creuser les différentes strates de la réception des écrivains albanais en France. En partant de l'interrogation sur les attentes de lisibilité envers la littérature albanaise, nous analysons le processus de sa réception. En considérant d'une part cette réception avant la publication du Général de l'armée morte, qui s'avère être une non-réception et, d'autre part, le succès immédiat de ce roman de Kadare, nous mettons en évidence l'horizon d'attente d'une œuvre albanaise dans la France de 1970.Par le biais de la notion de lisibilité, nous démontrons la réception en termes d'émergence de la littérature albanaise et le processus de création du personnage Kadare, par la vulgate critique. Ce personnage deviendra par la suite le moule réceptacle dans lequel devront se couler les autres écrivains albanais. La caractéristique principale de ce moule semble être la considération des écrivains albanais comme des témoins du traumatisme historique du pays. Pourtant, les écrivains récusent ce statut d’homo politicus, ils se revendiquent homo poeticus, détruisant ainsi le moule, à commencer par Kadare lui-même. Ceci permet le passage d'une vulgate réductrice à une réception créatrice de la littérature albanaise. Opérée par l'écrivain français Éric Faye, la réception créatrice permet une forme de consécration de la littérature albanaise qui, nourrie depuis toujours par les grands noms de la littérature européenne, devient, à son tour, impulsion créatrice pour un écrivain européen. / The starting point of this work is a question of the ’70s French literary critics : “Are there writers in Albania ?” This work aims to analyze the different layers of the process of reception towards Albanian writers in France during the last 40 years.We analyze the process of albanian litterature reception starting from the question about readability expectations towards it. Considering firstly the reception before the publication of the General of the dead army and secondly the immediate success of this Kadare’s novel, we underline the expectation features towards the Albanian literature in France during the ’70s. Using the concept of readability as a background, we show that this reception encompasses two main features : Albanian literature as an emergent literature and the creation process of a prototypical character named ’Kadare’ from the French vulgate critic. This character will become the pattern to which all Albanian writers would henceforth have to fit.From the perspective of the critic, the main feature of this pattern seems to be the consideration of Albanian writers as witnesses of the historical trauma in their country. The Albanians writers, on the other hand, challenge this status of homo politicus and declare themselves as homo poeticus, breaking the pattern, starting from Kadare himself. This allows a shift from a simplistic vulgate to a creative reception towards Albanian literature. Operated by the French writer Eric Faye, creative reception can be seen as a form of consecration of the Albanian literature, since Albanian literature which has always been nourished from the great names of European literature becomes itself a creative impulse for a European writer.