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-value-of-school https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-school 2026-02-26T08:30:00Z text/html en Nassim El Kabli Society liberalism schooling autonomy Cairn.info <p>School is mandatory and fully justified in being so. Educational authority in no way impairs freedom, provided it focuses on developing students' multiple capacities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Living-Frugally https://booksandideas.net/Living-Frugally 2025-10-21T11:00:00Z text/html en Camille Robert-Boeuf Society solidarity autonomy food Cairn.info <p>Drawing on the resources of ethno-accounting, Geneviève Pruvost conducts a fascinating investigation into “alternative” lifestyles in rural areas.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Autonomy-A-Return-to-Earth https://booksandideas.net/Autonomy-A-Return-to-Earth 2023-05-09T08:39:35Z text/html en Luca Paltrinieri Philosophy environment freedom autonomy environmentalism catastrophe climate change Cairn.info <p>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.</p> https://booksandideas.net/All-Vulnerable https://booksandideas.net/All-Vulnerable 2019-10-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Cécile Lavergne Philosophy inequalities violence autonomy care vulnerability Newsletter Institut 3 <p>Can we think of social transformation from the perspective of vulnerability? Yes, explains Marie Garrau, but for this we need to define the meaning of this notion differently, and to describe all the forms of inequality that weaken us and subject us to multiple forms of violence in our societies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Two-Lives-of-Ivan-Illich https://booksandideas.net/The-Two-Lives-of-Ivan-Illich 2011-03-18T09:51:09Z text/html en Augustin Fragnière Philosophy progress autonomy industry technics <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>The French literary magazine <i>Esprit</i> evaluates the work of Ivan Illich. It first focuses on his denouncing the perverse effects of industrial society. It also analyzes the symbolic effects of the system of modern technology. Despite the thematic and methodological eclecticism of the two periods in his life, there is one central preoccupation that runs throughout, that of man and his autonomy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Society-of-Discontent-or https://booksandideas.net/Society-of-Discontent-or 2010-06-03T06:02:00Z text/html en Alain Ehrenberg Society France United States of America individualism psychology la suite gauche autonomy institutions social bond <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Alain Ehrenberg believes that Robert Castel's review of his book in <i>La Vie des Idées</i> is grounded in a misunderstanding about his approach. As opposed to presenting America as a model, Ehrenberg's comparative approach attempts to describe the social meanings of autonomy in order to transcend the opposition between liberalist and antiliberalist orientations. His objective is to replace an individualistic sociology with a sociology of individualism.</p>