Books & ideas

Making Tomorrow Another Day

Jean-Louis Fabiani — 2024-04-23T05:46:52Z

Is another world possible? Answering this question requires us to first ask ourselves what “possible” might mean. We must return to the classics: from Aristotle to Bourdieu, many authors can help us understand what an alternative might look like.

Mom's Emancipation

Géraldine Farges — 2023-03-30T07:30:00Z

By retracing the itineraries of their mothers, two authors reconstruct the lifestyles of two teachers in the 1960s and 1970s and their quest for economic and intellectual emancipation.

Miguel Abensour: Emancipation through Utopia

Nicolas Poirier — 2018-02-08T08:00:00Z

Miguel Abensour profoundly renewed thinking about democracy. His political philosophy paid close attention to the desire for emancipation and was based on an original conception of utopia breaking with the mythology of the ‘ideal city' or of a ‘good society'.

The Colonial Margins of Citizenship

Samuel Hayat — 2016-12-19T08:00:00Z

By studying political and legal debates over citizenship through the prism of the colonial situation in the nineteenth century, in the metropole as well as the colonies, Silyane Larcher proposes a new genealogy of citizenship and asks us to rethink how the French Republic was constructed.

Nancy Fraser and the Theory of Participatory Parity

Estelle Ferrarese — 2015-09-14T06:00:00Z

According to Nancy Fraser, the renewal of socialism requires a conflation of activism and political theory; indeed, emancipation can only exist on the basis of equal participation in all spheres of life, and can only be understood in terms of social struggles, which today appear in multiple forms.