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.
Literature and cinema have long played with the idea of the end of the world. As Jean-Paul Engélibert explains, these narratives, which imagine the forms of life or society that will emerge from the apocalypse, must be seen primarily as a critique of the present.
About: Frédéric Keck, Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Duke University Press; Natalie Porter, Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam, University of Chicago Press
About: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi et Guillaume Dye (dir.), Le Coran des historiens, Éditions du Cerf
About: Delphine Berdah, Abattre ou vacciner, La France et le Royaume-Uni en lutte contre la tuberculose et la fièvre aphteuse (1900-1960), EHESS
A summer selection
À propos de : Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights : Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press
À propos de : Clare Carlisle (ed.), Spinoza’s Ethics Translated by George Eliot, Princeton University Press
