Books & ideas

Discrimination as a “test”

Frédérique Jean — 2025-09-09T12:20:16Z

Mickaëlle Provost seeks to understand oppression through lived experience, in all its uniqueness. She also shows how shared awareness of this suffering and the ways in which it is erased can create solidarity and pave the way for collective resistance.

Inside an animal's soul

Laurent Bègue Shankland — 2024-12-03T07:40:14Z

In this analysis of animal behavior, Florence Burgat brilliantly examines a continent that Freud left unexplored: the animal unconscious. But is psychoanalysis the right framework for such a project?

A Portrait of Sartre as a Cartesian

Yoann Malinge — 2024-02-15T08:42:00Z

According to Camille Riquier, the Metaphysical Meditations are the “secret” to understanding Sartrean thought. Yet, can this bold thesis be extended to Sartre's entire oeuvre?

The Ecology of Affect

Julien Bernard — 2023-12-21T11:33:29Z

Where do our emotions come from? Are they specific to our sensibility or are they a product of our environment? And how do they become collective? Louis Quéré proposes to revisit these crucial questions.

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.

Peter Zumthor: an “Acontemporary” Architect?

Stéphane Füzesséry — 2013-09-30T07:26:37Z

The highest prize of the architectural world was awarded to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in 2009. His phenomenological approach, paying special attention to natural landscapes and local building traditions, is at odds with the dominant contemporary architectural design. He has the merit of raising the thorny question of what architecture means at a time of widespread urban living and the crisis of place.