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/In-Praise-of-the-Unpropertied https://booksandideas.net/In-Praise-of-the-Unpropertied 2026-03-26T08:30:00Z text/html en Pierre Crétois Philosophy property anarchism Marx Cairn.info Proudhon <p>Marx misunderstood Proudhon: he criticized him for neglecting the relations of production, when in fact the French anarchist was interested in the political subjugation that, in his view, private property inevitably causes.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Anarchism-of-Intellectuals https://booksandideas.net/The-Anarchism-of-Intellectuals 2024-11-21T09:00:00Z text/html en Cyril Legrand Philosophy state intellectuals anarchism Cairn.info <p>Whether conceived as advocacy of disorder or as “the highest expression of order,” as the abolition of the state or as state-led deregulation, anarchy feeds on every ambiguity. This is the case even in contemporary philosophy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Social-sciences-in-the-face-of-disorder https://booksandideas.net/Social-sciences-in-the-face-of-disorder 2022-01-06T13:35:31Z text/html en Marielle Debos International anthropology social sciences geography history social dialogue anarchism Chad <p>How can social sciences think through the constitutive disorder of a society? When groups marked by “bad reputation” refuse to be an object of knowledge, how can we write about them? This is the challenge presented to researchers by the Tubu of Chad.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Zomia-Land-Without-State https://booksandideas.net/Zomia-Land-Without-State 2013-05-20T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande History democracy utopia resistance anarchism Asia Institut français <p>For two thousand years, according to James Scott, the mountains of Zomia were a place of refuge for the people of Southeast Asia. For the author, this region, as a centre of resistance to the state, holds up a mirror to our destructive and self-confident civilisation. A fascinating and intriguing anarchist history.</p>