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/In-All-Their-Singularity https://booksandideas.net/In-All-Their-Singularity 2025-07-10T08:00:00Z text/html en Alain Policar Philosophy Colonialism universalism Leibniz Cairn.info <p>We need to rebuild universalism, not as an overarching model to be applied to all regions of the world, but on the basis of their own singularity—laterally, not from above.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ecology-of-Monads https://booksandideas.net/Ecology-of-Monads 2017-09-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Thibault De Meyer Philosophy biodiversity environment environmentalism aesthetics Florence Gould Foundation Leibniz <p>Will Leibniz's philosophy turn us into ecologists? This is the bet of Pauline Phemister who, building upon Leibniz's theory of perception and of the interdependence of beings, shows that biodiversity is a form of beauty, and that its destruction impoverishes our experience.</p>