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-Before-and-the-After https://booksandideas.net/The-Before-and-the-After 2025-01-30T10:36:44Z text/html en Christophe Bouton Philosophy métaphysique physics time Cairn.info <p>Time is the hardest thing for us to understand, as we cannot be sure whether it exists in and of itself, or whether it can even be defined. This is an age-old conundrum, but Francis Wolff offers a new answer rooted in neither physics nor phenomenology.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Invention-of-Kant https://booksandideas.net/The-Invention-of-Kant 2024-12-20T09:09:37Z text/html en Louis Guerpillon Philosophy métaphysique Kantianism expérience Cairn.info <p>Experience can only lead to knowledge if it is organized by concepts that are not derived from experience. This is the paradox at the heart of Kant's metaphysics, which Antoine Grandjean gives an entirely new interpretation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Logics-of-Ecstasy https://booksandideas.net/Logics-of-Ecstasy 2024-12-05T08:13:41Z text/html en Steven Le breton Philosophy Deleuze métaphysique mental illness empiricism expérience Cairn.info <p>Some exceptional experiences give us access to a different reality from the one we encounter in our everyday lives. In the twentieth century, a number of philosophers explored these experiences in the pursuit of a new form of empiricism.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Inquiry-Into-Being https://booksandideas.net/The-Inquiry-Into-Being 2024-11-26T07:30:00Z text/html en Cédric Mouriès Philosophy identity métaphysique analytic philosophy ontology Cairn.info <p>Despite repeated proclamations of the death of metaphysics, the contemporary philosophical landscape is marked by the proliferation of ontologies. Sébastien Motta sets out to demonstrate the sterility of the ontological enterprise through a logical analysis of their assumptions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Above-it-All https://booksandideas.net/Above-it-All 2019-10-21T07:00:00Z text/html en Claude Reichler Arts Philosophy métaphysique sport <p>Mountaineering combines surpassing oneself, taking things to excess, and achieving practical wisdom. The philosopher P.-H. Frangne explains that this activity is an important exercise in the decentering of the self, which allows for the perception of the incomparably sublime landscapes provided by mountain peaks.</p> https://booksandideas.net/For-an-Ecological-Democracy https://booksandideas.net/For-an-Ecological-Democracy 2009-09-01T06:37:00Z text/html en Dominique Bourg & Kerry Whiteside Carousel Philosophy democracy political representation environment la suite droite environmentalism métaphysique <p>Our consumption never stops increasing and the planet is bled dry. Relying on technological progress for our salvation is an illusion. For the solution is political: We must seek to refound our representative democracy.</p>