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/Making-Children-into-Adults https://booksandideas.net/Making-Children-into-Adults 2024-04-16T11:59:20Z text/html en Bernard Schneuwly Philosophy education childhood language Spinoza Cairn.info <p>Vygotsky is a major educational theorist credited with showing how the mind of the child is formed. In this book, Pascal Sévérac explains what Vygotsky's theory owes to Spinoza's.</p> https://booksandideas.net/To-Educate-is-to-Teach-to-Die https://booksandideas.net/To-Educate-is-to-Teach-to-Die 2023-04-13T06:42:00Z text/html en Benoît Peuch Philosophy education childhood Spinoza Cairn.info <p>Through a meditation on what might constitute a Spinozist education, Pascal Sévérac considers the passage from childhood to adulthood as that from one nature to another and organizes the rules of a good education around the notion of affectivity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Spinoza-as-Groundwork-for-Writing-Fiction https://booksandideas.net/Spinoza-as-Groundwork-for-Writing-Fiction 2020-06-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Steven Nadler Philosophy ethics literature translation history of philosophy history of ideas Spinoza moral philosophy Books and ideas originals <p>The first English translator of Spinoza's <i>Ethics</i> was a woman, and not any woman: the great novelist George Eliot who, before taking to writing fiction, had translated Feuerbach, David Strauss—and Spinoza. Her beautiful translation had remained unpublished until now. It has nothing to envy of the ones that followed.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Everything-You-Always-Wanted-to-Know-about-Spinoza https://booksandideas.net/Everything-You-Always-Wanted-to-Know-about-Spinoza 2018-01-08T08:00:00Z text/html en Steven Nadler Arts Philosophy History Spinoza <p>Much has been said about Spinoza and the life he led — especially when it comes to understand his exclusion from the Jewish community. M. Rovère has reopened the case in a romanticized and original version of the story.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Tender-Indifference-of-the-World-Revisiting-Albert-Camus https://booksandideas.net/The-Tender-Indifference-of-the-World-Revisiting-Albert-Camus 2015-05-28T05:30:00Z text/html en Marylin Maeso Philosophy literature rebellion Institut français Portraits Spinoza Camus <p>In an innovative study that returns Albert Camus' early works to their rightful place in the canon, Laurent Bove suggests we should view Camus as a philosopher of immanence and of acquiescence to the joy of the world. This reading is enlightening as far as Camus' thoughts on history are concerned, but tends to gloss over the ruptures that run though his work, which is driven with multiple tensions.</p>