Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007.
The way nightlife has been affected by the recent Covid-19 restrictions invites us to think back on the value and features of the night as we have known it for most of our lives. A pioneer in the burgeoning field of night studies, Will Straw sheds light on the history of the night and the issues related to its loss.
About: Ken-Hou Lin, Megan Tobias Neely, Divested. Inequality in the Age of Finance, Oxford University Press
About: Anne Revillard, Des droits vulnérables. Handicap, action publique et changement social, Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
About: Florence Burgat, Qu’est-ce qu’une plante ? Essai sur la vie végétale, Seuil
About: Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac, Le genre du capital. Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, La Découverte; Camille Herlin-Giret, Rester riche. Enquête sur les gestionnaires de fortune et leurs clients, Le Bord de l’eau; Gilles Laferté, L’embourgeoisement : une enquête chez les céréaliers, Raisons d’agir
About: Marie-Hélène Zérah, Quand L’Inde s’urbanise : Services essentiels et paradoxes d’un urbanisme bricolé, Editions de l’Aube
About: Alexandre Moatti, Aux racines du transhumanisme. France 1930-1980, Odile Jacob
À propos de : Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights : Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press
