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-Rules-of-Speech https://booksandideas.net/The-Rules-of-Speech 2024-03-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Lascoumes Philosophy power reason discourse speech Cairn.info <p>Speech can mislead us just as it can convince us of the truth. Clément Viktorovitch's salutary book reviews the basic rules of rhetoric along with its pitfalls and persuasive resources.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News 2020-05-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Sarah Maza History democracy reason truth political theory Books and ideas originals post-truth technocraty <p>While the expression “fake news” appeared recently, the problem itself, Sophia Rosenfeld argues, can be retraced to the very birth of democracy. Drawing upon the history of ideas, <i>Democracy and Truth</i> investigates the roots of current tensions around the question of truth in politics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/How-the-History-of-Philosophy-Was-Born https://booksandideas.net/How-the-History-of-Philosophy-Was-Born 2020-04-30T07:00:00Z text/html en Ariane Revel Philosophy reason history of philosophy <p>The history of philosophy is a discipline in its own right that invented itself as such in the 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> and 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> centuries. But it is also an imperialist practice intended to mark the triumph of European reason. Catherine König-Pralong's book traces its history.</p>