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-Fascination-for-India https://booksandideas.net/The-Fascination-for-India 2013-03-11T09:00:00Z text/html en Jules Naudet International discourse sociology India literature postcolonial studies <p>Since the 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century, India has been portrayed in contradictory ways. While scholarly knowledge is based on the philological study of texts, literary Orientalism expresses its fascination for a society well-known to preserve the values of order and hierarchy. For Roland Lardinois the anthropology of Louis Dumont illustrates the ambiguity of these discourses.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Sprouts-of-Democracy-in-Chinese https://booksandideas.net/Sprouts-of-Democracy-in-Chinese 2011-05-30T06:18:00Z text/html en Pierre-Etienne Will History democracy China elections discourse Constitution empire <p>In this article derived from a conference given at Princeton University in November 2008, Pierre-Etienne Will discards culturalist arguments justifying the absence of a democratic regime in China and searches for “sprouts of democracy” in Chinese history.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-the-Veil https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-the-Veil 2008-01-30T12:18:06Z text/html en Cécile Laborde la suite gauche tolerance discourse critique <p><i>The Politics of the Veil</i> is an exemplary exercise in the critique of discourse, unearthing its intentional and subconscious meaning, and bringing to the surface its internal tensions and paradoxes; but the counter-discourse of toleration and recognition may turn out to be as problematic as the republican discourse of abstraction, denial and repression so eloquently criticised.</p>