L'importance du rôle des émotions dans la connaissance conduit à voir en elles bien davantage qu'un facteur perturbateur. Leur pertinence cognitive, de plus en plus reconnue par les sciences (naturelles, sociales, humaines...), consacre l'importance d'un tournant émotionnel (emotional turn). Les émotions constituent aussi de puissants moteurs de créativité et d'innovation, cruciaux dans la construction des formations socioculturelles. Les textes rassemblés dans le présent volume, dans une perspective résolument interdisciplinaire, traitent d'émotions puissamment agissantes dans...

The relationship between human beings and the cosmos has developed in divergent mythological, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, political-juridical, and ecological ways over time. Throughout history the cosmos has been subjected to a scientific perspective as well as to the poetic gaze, both of which contemplate the mysteries of the night, the comets, the king-sun, the moon, and infinity. Several other concepts, such as cosmology, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, cosmopolitan citizenship, cosmopolitan law, and cosmic consciousness are derived from the idea of the cosmos....

Alexander von Humboldt aimed »to grasp the whole world«. He searched the unknown in order to explain that which was close but incomprehensible as a result of being seen in isolation from the network to which it belongs. All natural, cultural and social phenomena are interrelated and should be studied as a whole. Contrary to a hierarchical scientific methodology based on a first principle that supports the whole, Humboldt conceives a complex network in which every individual element is equally important, despite each having its own unique dimensions and logic. Humboldt's natural studies,...