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/From-Infamous-Men-to-Men-of-the-Forest https://booksandideas.net/From-Infamous-Men-to-Men-of-the-Forest 2021-01-04T07:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod History nature Foucault environmentalism archives fiction Institut français wilderness <p>What if, after his interest in “infamous men,” Foucault had turned his attention to the history of ecological marginalities, examining hermits, noble savages and other men of the forest? Philippe Artières writes a counter-factual fiction using real archives.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Thinking-through-Wildlands https://booksandideas.net/Thinking-through-Wildlands 2019-06-27T07:00:00Z text/html en Claire Larroque Philosophy nature environmentalism wilderness <p>What do we owe to nature? And to which nature? Moving beyond dualistic praise of the wilderness, the philosopher Rémi Beau invites us to observe ordinary nature. In the indeterminate spaces of wildlands, it might be possible to find the source of a new ethical relationship. But what would be the practical implications?</p>