https://booksandideas.net// 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. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-historical-cruise-through-Paris-rivers https://booksandideas.net/A-historical-cruise-through-Paris-rivers 2026-03-17T11:00:00Z text/html en Pauline Guéna History power Paris water monarchy Cairn.info <p>Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, as the monarchy established its authority across French territory, the rivers of the Paris Basin continued to be managed by various actors through negotiations aimed at coordination.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Airs-of-empire https://booksandideas.net/Airs-of-empire 2025-05-08T07:30:00Z text/html en Geneviève Bührer-Thierry History power empire monarchy Cairn.info <p>The Frankish kingdom that emerged between the sixth and eighth centuries promoted political and religious diversity, before the Carolingians brought this pragmatism to an end. Did an empire exist in Europe between Rome and Charlemagne?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Political-Scientist-the-President-and-his-Post https://booksandideas.net/The-Political-Scientist-the-President-and-his-Post 2024-06-13T08:38:00Z text/html en Christophe Le Digol Politics power elections political science executive power protest La machine du pouvoir <span class="caps">AFSP</span> Cairn.info <p>How do citizens view the power of the President of the Republic? An analysis of letters sent to the Élysée Palace reveals the relationship between French citizens and their head of state, as well as the role played by an invisible service: the presidential post office.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Andalusia-political-decline-cultural-flourishing https://booksandideas.net/Andalusia-political-decline-cultural-flourishing 2024-03-28T08:35:00Z text/html en Alexandre Giunta Islam History power culture Cairn.info <p>At the beginning of the eleventh century, the collapse of the Umayyad caliphate coincided with political fragmentation. It was in this unusual context, soon to be exacerbated by Christian incursions from the north and Berber incursions from the south, that this part of the Muslim world experienced a flourishing culture.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Rules-of-Speech https://booksandideas.net/The-Rules-of-Speech 2024-03-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Lascoumes Philosophy power reason discourse speech Cairn.info <p>Speech can mislead us just as it can convince us of the truth. Clément Viktorovitch's salutary book reviews the basic rules of rhetoric along with its pitfalls and persuasive resources.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Mysterious-Persistence-of-the-Moroccan-Monarchy https://booksandideas.net/The-Mysterious-Persistence-of-the-Moroccan-Monarchy 2024-01-11T07:59:00Z text/html en Antoine Perrier International History power Morocco Cairn.info <p>How can one explain the longevity of the Moroccan monarchy? In their long-term study of the imaginary of the Moroccan state, Béatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy argue that it is due to the regime's ability to adapt its dual—imperial and national—logic to the realities of the neoliberal age.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Political-Psychiatry-in-the-Twentieth-Century https://booksandideas.net/Political-Psychiatry-in-the-Twentieth-Century 2023-12-07T09:00:00Z text/html en Hervé Guillemain History power state-crime psychiatry mental illness censorship Cairn.info <p>Soviet psychiatry and American psychiatry have different histories. Yet, both were conceived, each in their own way, as instruments of control aimed at repressing deviant behavior.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Empress-Eugenie-France-s-First-Lady https://booksandideas.net/Empress-Eugenie-France-s-First-Lady 2023-02-28T08:30:00Z text/html en Murielle Gaude-Ferragu History power women empire biography Cairn.info <p>Despite the black legend that surrounds her name, the Empress Eugénie, Napoleon <span class="caps">III</span>'s wife, was the embodiment of maternity and Christian virtues, even as she played a political and diplomatic role.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ministerial-Cabinets-the-Grey-Area-of-Government https://booksandideas.net/Ministerial-Cabinets-the-Grey-Area-of-Government 2022-09-15T13:00:21Z text/html en Catherine Achin & Delphine Dulong Politics power La machine du pouvoir <span class="caps">AFSP</span> <p>Within French government ministries, cabinet offices are a source of numerous fantasies due to their opaque role and the omnipotence of graduates of the École Nationale d'Administration. A centuries-old institution at the heart of political-administrative power, their composition has nonetheless diversified, and female representation has increased over time.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Viennot-L-age-d-or-de-l-ordre-masculin-en https://booksandideas.net/Viennot-L-age-d-or-de-l-ordre-masculin-en 2021-09-29T06:30:00Z text/html en Martine Storti History power feminism women masculinity Institut Universitaire de France <p>Éliane Viennot continues her investigation of the history of the inequality, hierarchies and disqualifications that have been imposed on women. Legally organising their subjection is not enough; the latter also has to be legitimated.</p>