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-Praise-of-the-Unpropertied https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-the-Unpropertied 2026-03-26T08:30:00Z text/html en Pierre Crétois Philosophy property anarchism Marx Cairn.info Proudhon <p>Marx misunderstood Proudhon: he criticized him for neglecting the relations of production, when in fact the French anarchist was interested in the political subjugation that, in his view, private property inevitably causes.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Marx-and-the-history-of-nature https://booksandideas.net/Marx-and-the-history-of-nature 2025-06-05T07:00:00Z text/html en Camille Chamois Philosophy nature environmentalism living Marx Cairn.info <p>According to Frédéric Monferrand, Marx considers capitalism as a vast effort to put nature to work. This includes human bodies, as well as non-human environments. Monferrand outlines a “historical naturalism,” demonstrating its political and ecological relevance.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Capitalism-and-injustice https://booksandideas.net/Capitalism-and-injustice 2025-05-27T07:56:01Z text/html en Fabien Tarrit capitalism Philosophy injustice Marxism exploitation Marx Cairn.info <p>It is hard to do without the concept of exploitation when describing the many forms of injustice created by capitalism. Marx remains very much our contemporary.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Grammar-of-Modernity https://booksandideas.net/The-Grammar-of-Modernity 2024-01-18T08:30:00Z text/html en Ulysse Lojkine Philosophy property social classes Kantianism Marx Cairn.info <p>The latest book by Catherine Colliot-Thèlène, who died in 2022, crowns a vast body of work in the field of political philosophy. She drew inspiration from a meticulous and enlightening reinterpretation of the classics in order to understand the contemporary world.</p> https://booksandideas.net/From-Marx-to-Marxism-Histories-of-an-Idea https://booksandideas.net/From-Marx-to-Marxism-Histories-of-an-Idea 2018-05-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Ophélie Siméon Politics utopia socialism Marxism Text Interviews Marx <p>Two hundred years after Karl Marx's birth, Gregory Claeys takes a new look at the thinker's intellectual formation, wide-ranging posterity and continued relevance in the 21<sup class="typo_exposants">st</sup> century.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Elite-Paradigm https://booksandideas.net/The-Elite-Paradigm 2017-10-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Jan Pakulski Society the elite power Bourdieu Marx <p>Influenced by Weber, Marx and Bourdieu, Milner undertakes, in his latest book, to revamp a general model of elites and nonelites. Adopting a historical approach, he defines the contours of power relations in three very distinct civilisations in an attempt to provide an updated analytical framework.</p>