Représentation Corps Gargantua

en l'Existence, dans le Multiple, le Vivant. La quête de la pureté est méditation, inaction, fin des mutations et des métamorphoses, échec du Temps : nirvana. Enfin, Emmanuel Kant vint : la raison pure (reinen Vernunft) embrasse « toutes les représentations auxquelles rien de ce qui appartient à l'expérience ne se trouve mêlé ». Mais cette pureté de l'intuition, sise a priori dans l'esprit, a pu être interprétée comme une épuration : un « purisme », selon un philosophe allemand opposé à Kant et dont

chivalry and conquers England. Written (or rather rewritten) in prose, these new versions mark a movement in taste away from myth and the Christian marvellous towards love and its casuistry, magical perils, monsters and fairies and a more direct representation of the palpable world. The roman d’aventure drew on narrative traditions of all kinds. In the thirteenth century, Joufroi de Poitiers revisits the court of Guillaume IX, while Adenet le Roi (d. c.1300) returned to Charlemagne’s mother and the

forty-two years of experience behind the wheel. When they compared the scans with those of a control group, they found that the taxi drivers’ posterior hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays a key role in storing and manipulating spatial representations of a person’s surroundings, was much larger than normal. Moreover, the longer a cab driver had been on the job, the larger his posterior hippocampus tended to be. The researchers also discovered that a portion of the drivers’ anterior hippocampus