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-Before-and-the-After https://booksandideas.net/The-Before-and-the-After 2025-01-30T10:36:44Z text/html en Christophe Bouton Philosophy métaphysique physics time Cairn.info <p>Time is the hardest thing for us to understand, as we cannot be sure whether it exists in and of itself, or whether it can even be defined. This is an age-old conundrum, but Francis Wolff offers a new answer rooted in neither physics nor phenomenology.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Haunted-and-Enchanted https://booksandideas.net/Haunted-and-Enchanted 2020-04-02T07:00:00Z text/html en Stéphanie Sauget History death time surnatural <p>Studying the modern craze for ghosts, Caroline Callard sees them as a common and active figure, bearers of the hauntings of time and of conflict resolution, in line with a science that takes on the task of interpreting nature.</p>