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.
The two most urgent problems facing humanity are economic inequality and environmental destruction. Lucas Chancel argues these two are deeply intertwined. Solutions to one must necessarily involve the other.
About: A. Le Goff, Pragmatisme et démocratie radicale, CNRS Éditions
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
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
