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Who Wants Nature to Die?

About: Virginie Maris, La part sauvage du monde, Seuil

by Rémi Beau, 20 May

Faced with the Anthropocene, the philosopher Virginie Maris defends a compelling vision of the wilderness. Condemning recent developments in environmental thinking, she urges us to withstand its current refocusing on an exclusively human world.

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Gods and Rupees

by Smriti Sharma, 16 May

About: Sriya Iyer, The Economics of Religion in India, Harvard University...

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Activism in the Age of Financialization

by Jacob Hamburger, 13 May

About: Michel Feher, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age,...

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British Protectionism Through the Ages

by Ophélie Siméon, 9 May

An Interview with David Todd

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Could Random Selection and Deliberative Democracy Revitalize Politics in the 21^st Century?

by Yves Sintomer, 6 June 2012
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When Immigration Is a Crime

by Luca d’Ambrosio, 24 October 2011
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The Slow Triumph of the Majority

by Olivier Christin, 11 June 2012
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Invisible constraints

by Florent Brayard, 15 December 2010
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History Speaks Many Languages

by Anne-Julie Etter & Thomas Grillot, 27 January 2012
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The Politics of Error

by Henry Laurens, 16 October 2007
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The American State: Power Obscured

by Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz, 15 November 2011
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The Autumn of the Patriarchs

by Abdellah Tourabi, 18 May 2011
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In the Best Interest of the Child

by Jennifer Merchant, 22 November 2010
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Risk and the Masses

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 3 December 2010
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Frédéric Bastiat, the American Right’s French Inspiration

by Michael C. Behrent, 1 July 2010
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Protectionism as Internationalist Liberalism

by David Todd, 17 January 2012
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For an Ecological Democracy

by Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside, 1 September 2009
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The World Social Forum Challenge

by Geoffrey Pleyers, 28 January 2009
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Human Rights and Politics

by Justine Lacroix, 24 October 2012
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Where have the rebels gone?

by Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige, 21 January 2010

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Who Will Save the Planet?

by Ivan Ascher & Marieke Louis, 10 December 2018
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Inventing, Reinventing, Questioning Democracy

by Mélanie Cournil, 25 July 2016
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Debates Across the Board

by The editorial team, 23 December 2013

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Réfugiés en pays néo-libéral

par Yasmine Bouagga, le 17 mai

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Ce que la philosophie veut dire

par Florent Guénard, le 3 mai

Entretien avec Quentin Skinner
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Michael Doyle : le libéralisme, entre guerre et paix

par Marieke Louis, le 22 février

À quelles conditions une démocratie doit-elle faire la guerre ?

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Ronald Dworkin: Law as Novel Writing

by Julie Allard, 5 February 2015
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André Gorz: Thinker of Emancipation

by Christophe Fourel & Francoise Gollain, 28 August 2014
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A Self-Subversive Temperament

by Cyrille Ferraton & Ludovic Frobert, 23 July 2014

A Portrait of Albert Hirschman

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