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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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
About: Gilles Havard, L’Amérique fantôme. Les aventuriers francophones du Nouveau Monde, Flammarion
About: Didier Fassin, La vie. Mode d’emploi critique, Le Seuil.
