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Alongside Descartes, Kant is the leading author of modernity: his influence on science, morality, politics and aesthetics is considerable. Many of today’s ethical dilemmas (biology, medicine, etc.) make reference to Kantian thought. A knowledge of Kantian philosophy is...
“Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior” - who is Buddha? This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling its most famous shortcuts. By following Gotama's “Spiritual...
“Wagner sums up modernity. No matter what you do, you have to start by being a Wagnerian.” Nietzsche Glorified in France and Germany in the 19th century, Wagner's image was distorted: the revolutionary art of this close associate of Bakunin would soon be enlisted by...
The internal logic of the Nazi movement and the Third Reich is intertwined with that of Hitler: one cannot be understood without first considering the other. How did an individual with little education or culture, whose life until the age of 30 had been a series of...
Jean Genet (1910-1986) was one of the most decisive writers of the 20th century. His work, consisting of poems, autobiographical novels, plays and short essays, was the subject of violent attacks, which are still going strong after his death. Some see it as indecent,...
The name Marcel Duchamp and his "things" are too often synonymous with hermeticism. Yet he was the initiator of the last great artistic revolution.We invite you to discover the successive stages of his unique trajectory, and to explore some of its many facets, beyond...
The name Deleuze is associated with strange concepts (desiring machines, ritornello, war machine or lines of flight). However, these impressive notions can be explained simply, once we have the intuition that organizes his work. This work gives us access to an...
Bataille's various forms of expression, ranging from the hallucinatory fictional narrative to the fragment and the theoretical essay, have always exerted a mostly subterranean influence on literature, philosophy, the humanities and the arts. The variation of his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A book about not dying at 17. Seriously? Understand Rimbaud? Like May lights? Like revolution? Yes. Because we had to understand. The Rimbauds who attack the republican order of the day and win it over to the race of real life. This books attempts to contextualize...
Albert Camus is prone to many misunderstandings. Jean-François Mattéi seeks to dispel them by offering us an innovative reading of this philosopher's work. He shows us that it is by tackling the three cycles of his work (the absurd, revolt, love) that we can better...
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...
Machiavelli has a reputation as an immoral thinker. His most famous work, The Prince, is oftemnm criticized as being a manual for political cunning and cynicism. On the contrary,Machiavelli invites us to face up to political and human reality. Faced with illusions and...
The male/female dichotomy is not obvious, and the feminist “we” is far from self-evident; its definition changes according to currents and ideologies. As well as fighting male domination, feminism can also defend different expressions of gender and sexuality. By...
Freinet is one of France's most famous pedagogues, but his work is the subject of many misunderstandings and misleading simplifications, which the author dispels by going back to the fundamentals of the thinker's work: free writing, the school walk, printing, student...
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