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-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence https://booksandideas.net/The-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence 2024-01-30T07:11:00Z text/html en Alain Messaoudi History Algeria decolonization independence emotion Cairn.info <p>How did the ordinary population experience the year 1962, when power was transferred from the colonial authorities to the representatives of the Algerian people? In the absence of archive material, Malika Rahal offers us a history rooted in emotions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Ecology-of-Affect https://booksandideas.net/The-Ecology-of-Affect 2023-12-21T11:33:29Z text/html en Julien Bernard Philosophy phenomenology Durkheim emotion <p>Where do our emotions come from? Are they specific to our sensibility or are they a product of our environment? And how do they become collective? Louis Quéré proposes to revisit these crucial questions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Emotions-at-Work https://booksandideas.net/Emotions-at-Work 2020-11-02T08:00:00Z text/html en Lauren A. Rivera Society the elite labour companies network Books and ideas originals emotion sociology of work <p>Are hiring decisions based on objective facts and rational thinking? Contrary to what portrayals of <i>homo economicus</i> suggest, emotion is a fundamental basis of decision-making. This is especially true when it comes to candidate evaluation, as Lauren Rivera shows in her study of the recruitment process in elite professional service firms.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Scholars-Between-Laughter-and-Tears https://booksandideas.net/Scholars-Between-Laughter-and-Tears 2019-11-11T08:00:00Z text/html en Volny Fages History research epistemology history of sciences Institut français emotion <p>Scholars are not just thinking machines. They laugh; they are anxious, angry, or afraid; they become friends with their colleagues. Researchers experience many emotions but these are mainly ignored, as though they had nothing to do with the process that produces knowledge.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Scarlet-Letters https://booksandideas.net/Scarlet-Letters 2019-09-02T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delon Philosophy environmentalism ethics activism vegetarianism Books and ideas originals emotion veganism meat <p>In 2018 and 2019, a series of attacks by vegan activists struck meat-related businesses in France. Deemed “extreme” and “violent” by butchers, these actions invite us to reflect on the ethics of activism. Is it ever morally permissible to engage in illegal activism? Are tactics such as shaming even effective?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions 2019-05-02T06:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Society Arts Paris sociology heritage art history Text Interviews value monument Notre-Dame emotion fire <p>Flames, disbelief, dread. A cathedral burns and tears flow. But why does our architectural heritage and its disappearance move us so greatly? The sociologist Nathalie Heinich offers some answers.</p>