Schmitt Raison Gestes

In this first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the writings of Carl Schmitt, John McCormick has furnished philosophers, historians, and political theorists with the most comprehensive account of Schmitt's critique of liberalism available.

Christian Schmitt is an album producer who has worked with the Sony Classical and Denon labels, and since 2002 with Germany's WDR service, where he oversees all of its classical music recordings as well as those of the WDR Big Band. Several of his recordings have won international prizes such as the Diapason d'Or, the German Record Critics' Award, and the Grammy. Schmitt received his degree in production from Detmold University in 1991, and now passes on his knowledge to students at the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf. ~ Patsy Morita

It’s with great honour that we present the latest album by Swedish dark ambient stalwart raison d’être.
This time Peter Andersson scrutinizes the paths of Carl Gustav Jung's notions of archetypes and the individuation process. Just like Mise en Abyme, the previous raison d'être album from 2014, Alchymeia is diving deep down to the shadows of the unconsciousness, and back to a dawn of the true Self. Confronting the shadow within is the darkest time of despair. There seems no way forward, only down. All is blackening and decomposed. Suddenly, through an enantiodromia, the ever deepening descent into the unconscious transmogrifies and becomes gradually illuminated. The melancholia is being purified. Alchymeia is in a sense the “raison d'être” of raison d'être, a shadowy journey through our unconscious the individuation process and archetypes.

Un giorno tutti gli abitanti di Piazza Guy d’Arezzo a Bruxelles ricevono la stessa lettera: “Questo messaggio solo per dirti che ti amo. Firmato: tu sai chi”. Un messaggio d’amore, apparentemente innocente, che dà il via a una catena di conseguenze che finiranno per sconvolgere la vita degli abitanti della piazza. C’è Zachary Bidermann, potente commissario dell’Unione Europea, erotomane incallito. C’è Faustina, la sofisticata ufficio stampa di una grossa casa editrice che detesta il suo amante che le fa l’amore troppo bene e quindi la fa sentire schiava. C’è Josephine che convince il marito Baptiste a prendere in casa l’amante di lei. C’è il banchiere Francois-Maxime de Couvigny, felicemente sposato, che ogni mattina cerca fugaci incontri sessuali con giovani ragazzi. Ci sono la portinaia Marcelle innamorata del suo afgano (un aitante clandestino) e la signorina Beauvert che fa l’amore con il suo pappagallo Copernico..

The Fourth Book of Violin Sonatas by Jean-Marie Leclair is considered the pinnacle of French Baroque violin artistry. Hélène Schmitt, herself celebrated as an exceptional violinist, has for many years intensively studied the life and work of the great musician, whose career repeatedly took unexpected turns and whose life ended abruptly with a murder that is still unsolved today.