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/The-great-circle-of-philosophy https://booksandideas.net/The-great-circle-of-philosophy 2024-06-25T15:17:55Z text/html en Alfio Nazareno Rizzo Philosophy civilization history of philosophy world Cairn.info <p>In a book that is learned and ambitious as well as accessible, Vincent Citot compares the philosophies of eight different civilizations to understand their cyclical evolution from a religious to a scientific stage.</p> https://booksandideas.net/In-Magellan-s-Wake https://booksandideas.net/In-Magellan-s-Wake 2021-10-27T06:30:00Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka History Video Interviews Renaissance world <p>Fernand de Magellan's “circumnavigation of the globe” in 1519-1522 conceals a whole fascinating and little-known universe: crews, kings, peoples, plants, peaceful or bloody encounters, hopes and fears. But, come to think of it: did Magellan really circumnavigate the globe?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Apocalypse-Is-Now https://booksandideas.net/The-Apocalypse-Is-Now 2020-11-23T08:00:00Z text/html en Stéphanie Posthumus Arts cinema novel Institut français catastrophe world <p>Literature and cinema have long played with the idea of the end of the world. As Jean-Paul Engélibert explains, these narratives, which imagine the forms of life or society that will emerge from the apocalypse, must be seen primarily as a critique of the present.</p> https://booksandideas.net/At-the-Frontiers-of-Reality https://booksandideas.net/At-the-Frontiers-of-Reality 2018-06-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Christophe Al-Saleh Philosophy mankind language realism world animals https://booksandideas.net/Of-Trees-and-Signs https://booksandideas.net/Of-Trees-and-Signs 2018-05-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Martin Fortier Philosophy culture anthropology language Florence Gould Foundation world <p>Trees think, explains E. Kohn, because they have the ability to represent the world and today's anthropology can help us go beyond the distinction between the human and the non-human. The risk here, though, is giving a weak definition of thinking.</p>