Books & ideas

Moral Socialism

Julien Le Mauff — 2026-02-18T15:55:56Z

How can we move beyond the double deadlock of state socialism and market capitalism? For Lea Ypi, returning to Kant and the Enlightenment offers a perspective to provide a new ground to freedom as social responsibility, and to open up towards a cosmopolitan horizon against the authoritarianism of profit.

A critique of the ideology of property

Yann Robert — 2025-12-04T08:00:00Z

Why do we believe that our societies are freer, more prosperous or more democratic thanks to the institution of private property rather than in spite of it?

Of roots and fruit

Bertrand Vaillant — 2024-11-28T07:58:00Z

Patrick Chastenet examines the anarchist roots of political ecology. He considers five authors who connected the defense of nature to the defense of freedom: Reclus, Ellul, Charbonneau, Illich, and Bookchin. Chastenet offers a rich and instructive presentation that leads to many questions.

Russia's Power Diagonal

Yauheni Kryzhanouski — 2024-10-24T09:08:00Z

‘Prevent disorder' is the motto of Russian power, justifying all forms of repression and establishing a partly decentralized system of domination through fear at the hands of local mobs.

Freedom Beyond Metaphysics

Jean-Pascal Anfray — 2024-04-18T08:35:19Z

Are we free, or are our actions determined by natural causes? The problem thus posed is a metaphysical construct: From late antiquity onwards, the authentic meaning of freedom as a principle of action has been obscured by the invention of free will and the excessive importance given to the concept of the will.

What is a republican?

Alain Policar — 2024-03-07T09:30:00Z

According to Jean-Fabien Spitz, republicanism's foundational ideals have been betrayed by the very people who purport to defend them against liberalism. An overemphasis on questions of identity makes it possible to forget that the republic was, from the outset, a principle of social justice.

Living in a dictatorship

Karine Clément — 2023-07-11T06:30:00Z

A new book uses an ethnological approach to shed light on the spaces of freedom and solidarity created by citizens in rural Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship. But these spaces, in some cases, also accommodate the regime.

Autonomy: A Return to Earth

Luca Paltrinieri — 2023-05-09T08:39:35Z

Accumulation in a world of finite resources: Such is the vortex into which the moderns are thrown. Current ecological concerns, however, should also be viewed as a metamorphosis of the social question.

The Force of Feminisms

Johanna Lenne-Cornuez — 2021-10-06T08:21:00Z

This collective book, which studies feminisms through the prism of intersectionality and gender, recalls the dynamism of struggles from the Revolution through to current debates, for instance around single-sex spaces and means of action.

Being and Choice

Michel Kail — 2020-02-20T08:00:00Z

Sartre promoted a new form of psychoanalysis that refused to relegate impulses to the unconscious and the infantile past. Neither deterministic nor arbitrary, human freedom is a “fundamental choice” that according to Raoul Moati must be thought in the light of realism.