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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.

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Who Wants Nature to Die?

About: Virginie Maris, La part sauvage du monde, Seuil

by Rémi Beau, 20 May

Faced with the Anthropocene, the philosopher Virginie Maris defends a compelling vision of the wilderness. Condemning recent developments in environmental thinking, she urges us to withstand its current refocusing on an exclusively human world.

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Gods and Rupees

by Smriti Sharma, 16 May

About: Sriya Iyer, The Economics of Religion in India, Harvard University...

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Activism in the Age of Financialization

by Jacob Hamburger, 13 May

About: Michel Feher, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age,...

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British Protectionism Through the Ages

by Ophélie Siméon, 9 May

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What justice after war?

by Christian Nadeau, 14 January 2010
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When the lottery is fairer than rational choice

by Florent Guénard & Hélène Landemore, 26 November 2008
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How to Modernize the British Welfare State

by Antoine Colombani, 6 May 2010
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J Street, the Lobby of the “Silent Majority”

by Pauline Peretz, 19 January 2011
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Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010
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In the Best Interest of the Child

by Jennifer Merchant, 22 November 2010
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The Media Revolution and Public Debate

by Charles Girard, 3 January 2012
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Is the Middle Class a Victim of Taxation?

by Antoine Bozio, 28 May 2012
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The Social State and Globalization

by Jean-Fabien Spitz, 11 February 2011
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Academic Inbreeding: An Evaluation

by Olivier Godechot & Alexandra Louvet, 22 April 2010
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The Reception of John Stuart Mill in France

by Vincent Guillin & Djamel Souafa, 9 May 2011
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History Speaks Many Languages

by Anne-Julie Etter & Thomas Grillot, 27 January 2012
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Risk and the Masses

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 3 December 2010
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October 2008: the return of the State?

by Bruno Bernardi, 29 January 2009
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From Risk To Disaster

by Florent Guénard & Philippe Simay, 8 June 2011
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From Public Charity to Putting the Poor to Work

by Jacques Rodriguez, 2 October 2014

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Who Will Save the Planet?

by Ivan Ascher & Marieke Louis, 10 December 2018
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The Significance of Disasters

by Florent Guénard & Philippe Simay, 29 April 2011
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European Citizenship on the March

by Florent Guénard, 24 October 2011

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Discussing Karl Polanyi, Understanding the Current Crisis

by Gianfranco Poggi, 11 December 2014

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by Christophe Fourel & Francoise Gollain, 28 August 2014

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