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.
For twentieth-century American pragmatists, democracy was a radical experiment involving the deliberate and deliberative participation of the people in identifying and resolving their own problems. Who are their descendants today?
About: Philippe Artières, Le dossier sauvage, Gallimard
About: Sarah Barmak, Jouir. En quête de l’orgasme féminin, Zones ; Delphine Gardey, Politique du clitoris, Textuel
About: Ajantha Subramanian, The Caste of Merit. Engineering Education in India, Harvard University Press
About: Sylvain Piron, L’Occupation du monde, Zones sensibles
About: Jean-Paul Engélibert, Fabuler la fin du monde. La puissance critique des fictions d’apocalypse, La Découverte
About: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi et Guillaume Dye (dir.), Le Coran des historiens, Éditions du Cerf
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
About: Fred Block & Margaret Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, Harvard University Press
