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.
How did the French Revolution, after abolishing privilege, also become the foundation of modern inequality? Thomas Piketty’s latest book focuses on the evolving ideological constructions of property across the ages and offers ways to solve the problem of inequality without challenging to the individual right to private property.
About: Frédéric Keck, Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Duke University Press; Natalie Porter, Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam, University of Chicago Press
About: David Andrew Nichols, Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870, Ohio University Press
À propos de : Clare Carlisle (ed.), Spinoza’s Ethics Translated by George Eliot, Princeton University Press
À propos de : Sophia Rosenfeld, Democracy and Truth : A Short History, University of Pennsylvania Press
About : Laurent Bove, Albert Camus. De la transfiguration – Pour une expérimentation vitale de l’immanence, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014.
