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.
Recension Philosophy
Do individuals have absolute rights to the things they have labored on? It would seem to go without saying that the answer is “yes” – and yet, this principle can be called into question. A definition of private property requires us to be in agreement with each other – and therefore to share a set of common values.
Reviewed : Serge Audier, La cité écologique. Pour un éco-républicanisme, La Découverte
About: Venus Bivar, Organic Resistance. The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France, The University of North Carolina Press
About : Darrel Moellendorf, Mobilizing Hope. Climate Change and Global Poverty, Oxford University Press
About : Étienne Ollion, Les candidats. Novices et professionnels de la politique, Puf
A summer selection
À propos de : Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, University of North Carolina Press
À propos de : Bruno Amable, La résistible ascension du néolibéralisme. Modernisation capitaliste et crise politique en France (1980-2020), La Découverte.
