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For some, Péguy is “an anarchist who put holy water in his oil”; for others, a dangerous rebel whose “head is full of revolution”. A socialist and a Catholic, a pious poet and a raging polemicist, Péguy turns out to be a man with a sometimes chaotic, always leaping...
Why do women wear make-up? Their answers are often evasive: “To feel good? Could they stop wearing make-up? “No!” The idea of no longer wearing make-up can even be perceived as an attack on identity. In an elegant, luminous style, the author plunges us into a history of...
For four centuries, the modern world has been dominated by machinery. It was born with capitalist production. It quickly became symbiotic with capitalist development, which found its driving force in mechanics. Calculation, predictability, the power of abstraction - the...
On September 15, 2017, in front of millions of television viewers, Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou, his Keeper of the Seals at the time, delivered his first lie: “It is now impossible to be elected when you have a B2 criminal record”. Nothing could be further from...
“We’ve spent nine trillion dollars bombing the Middle East like mad. We’ve sown death there, including our own. And what has it gotten us? Nothing.” Donald Trump, November 1, 2024The figure of the devil has haunted our collective consciousness since the dawn of time. He...
The 20th century was one of voracity, the 21st century will be one of hunger. Elsewhere, of course, in Africa, but also in the West, right here. Depletion of fossil fuels and minerals, climate change, loss of arable land, soil degradation, freshwater scarcity, ocean...
Freud's name is inseparable from his discovery of the unconscious and the consequences he drew from it: psychoanalysis. This book takes up the issues raised by Freud with force and clarity, and sheds light on the crucial points. It shows how psychoanalysis' assault on...
What is this "mania for prohibition" that invades both public and private spaces?What does the proliferation of prohibitions imply in our everyday lives, and what consequences does it have on our social ties and our individual and intimate behavior? Do they impose a...
It's hard to isolate André Breton from the constellation of which he was the passionate nucleus throughout his life. A man of mad friendship, a poet of mad love, the poet of Surrealism knew only how to conceive of his artistic approach collectively. Frédéric Aribit...
Reputedly difficult, the thought of Plotinus (205-270) is the culmination of ancient philosophy. Inspired first and foremost by Platonism, but also by Aristotelianism and Stoicism, it requires the ability to move with ease through the labyrinth of Greek philosophy,...
Why are men, who need each other so much, always in opposition? This introduction to Rousseau's thought, based on his four major works: Discours sur les sciences et les arts, Discours sur l'inégalité, Du Contrat social and l'Émile, helps us understand how this man who...
The most prosperous company in Mexico is not in the top 10 Aztec companies and is not even listed in the legal commercial register. It is a consortium of drug cartels that floods the world market with illicit products, from cocaine to heroin and synthetic drugs, and...
‘I bought an El Al Israel airline ticket. Destination: Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. Sixty years ago, my mother was born a few dozen kilometres away, in Haifa, Palestine.’ So begins the story of the ‘return’ of Ziyad Clot, grandson of Palestinian exiles. In...
“Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard “Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the...
A key figure in French Africa, Robert Bourgi, for the first time ever in a book, discusses his life, his relationship with his mentor Jacques Foccart and all the "missions" he undertook over almost forty years, on behalf of African and French presidents, including the...
Emancipation is the real thread running through Marx's thought. He's not concerned with capitalism, or Marxism for that matter, but with capital: it's this fundamental notion that we need to return to in order to understand Marx's thought and communism. This also...
Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite? Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes religious texts while living as a libertine, Beauvoir founds the...
Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on...
A feast of the body and, above all, a feast of words, Sade's work continues to reach out to us through the fusions it creates. Philosophy? Pornography? Farce? Like Madame de Saint-Ange in her boudoir, Sade could exclaim: "I'm an amphibious animal. I love everything. I...
Why have the Olympic Games always been a geopolitical event in their own right? How did the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, Moscow in 1980 and Barcelona in 1992 reflect international tensions, despite the Olympics' political neutrality? In2024, what are the stakes...
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