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.
Modernity has been built on the idea of a fundamental divide between nature and culture, humans and non-humans, the world and the spirit. These distinctions are no longer viable, as shown by an interdisciplinary and collectively authored book.
About: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: the Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South, Duke University Press
About: Dominique Guillo, Les Fondements oubliés de la culture. Une approche écologique, Seuil
About: Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press
About: Valérie Gérard, Par affinités. Amitié politique et coexistence, Editions MF, Collection Inventions
About: Renan Larue, Le Végétarisme des Lumières. L’abstinence de viande dans la France du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Classiques Garnier
