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-Agriculture-We-Deserve https://booksandideas.net/The-Agriculture-We-Deserve 2023-11-14T07:30:00Z text/html en Pauline Guéna History environment agriculture anthropocene Cairn.info <p>While agribusiness is the object of ever more criticism, Matthieu Calame claims that no real agricultural transition will be possible as long as political and cultural leaders do not change too.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Anthropocene-a-Challenge-for-Agriculture https://booksandideas.net/The-Anthropocene-a-Challenge-for-Agriculture 2021-04-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Bertrand Valiorgue Society environmentalism agriculture prediction anthropocene collapsology <p>What will farming look like in the future? Will there still be room for agriculture? What is certain is that the time has come for a complete overhaul of a model that is now obsolete. This essay considers the possible scenarios.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Christian-Origins-of-the-Anthropocene https://booksandideas.net/The-Christian-Origins-of-the-Anthropocene 2020-12-07T08:00:00Z text/html en Rémi Beau Economy History Middle Ages environmentalism Christianity ethnology Institut français anthropocene <p>To understand the Anthropocene, historian Sylvain Piron invites us to explore the Middle Ages. Disconcerting in how it multiplies avenues of research, his book's strength and originality lies in the critical mobilization of the economy of the Scholastics</p> https://booksandideas.net/Paul-Ardenne-Art-ecologique-Creation-plasticienne-Anthropocene https://booksandideas.net/Paul-Ardenne-Art-ecologique-Creation-plasticienne-Anthropocene 2019-11-07T08:00:00Z text/html en Juliette Bessette Arts environmentalism commitment Institut français contemporary art visual arts anthropocene <p>What effects do works of art have on consciousness and society? Ecological art asks this question in a new and urgent way, by calling upon us to befriend endangered nature.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Who-Wants-Nature-to-Die https://booksandideas.net/Who-Wants-Nature-to-Die 2019-05-20T07:00:00Z text/html en Rémi Beau Philosophy environment nature anthropocene <p>Faced with the Anthropocene, the philosopher Virginie Maris defends a compelling vision of the wilderness. Condemning recent developments in environmental thinking, she urges us to withstand its current refocusing on an exclusively human world.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ending-the-Anthropocene https://booksandideas.net/Ending-the-Anthropocene 2019-01-22T07:00:00Z text/html en Claire Sagan Society capitalism environmentalism ethics technology crisis Public Books fear anthropocene <p>Predictive models in ecology generally assume that capitalism will be maintained. However, as Claire Sagan argues, adapting to the climate crisis requires that we go beyond the capitalist hegemony and renounce the notion of “Anthropocene”.</p>