Books & ideas

The Social Key to Dreams

Claire Pagès — 2024-02-01T08:00:00Z

The unconscious, according to Bernard Lahire, is “socially structured.” This principle makes possible an individual sociology of dreams that requires—like all psychoanalytic interpretation—the presence of a third party to grasp the forces bearing down on the dreaming subject.

How Can One Be a Left Nietzschean?

Arnaud Sorosina — 2023-05-02T07:30:00Z

The Foucauldian analysis of the relations between power and knowledge draws on Nietzschean genealogy. For Jacques Bouveresse, however, Foucault, Deleuze, and their followers have put a left spin on the philosopher at the cost of a misinterpretation that leaves him perplexed.

Quran & Scholars

Matteo Bächtold — 2020-11-16T08:00:00Z

The three large volumes of Le Coran des historiens (The Historian's Quran) revolutionises the reading of this text, much as the historical-critical exegesis of the Bible did in the 19^th century. It does this by carefully situating the Quran in its historical, political religious and legal context and at the crossroads of the civilisations that engendered it.

Sontag as Metaphor

Benjamin Balint — 2020-02-13T08:00:00Z

In this new biography of Susan Sontag, Benjamin Moser draws on hundreds of interviews and on the writer's restricted archives to offer a fascinating portrait of a woman driven to extremities both personal and intellectual.