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/Habermas-in-the-public-sphere https://booksandideas.net/Habermas-in-the-public-sphere 2019-02-28T07:00:00Z text/html en Clotilde Nouët Philosophy History communication critique public sphere action biography Institut français political philosophy <p>In this intellectual portrait of the enfant terrible of the Frankfurt School, S. Müller-Doohm presents us with an indefatigable polemicist whose various stands have marked the last fifty years. This first ever biography of Habermas also takes us through post-war German history.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-Self-Subversive-Temperament https://booksandideas.net/A-Self-Subversive-Temperament 2014-07-23T07:30:00Z text/html en Cyrille Ferraton & Ludovic Frobert Economy market passions deliberation action Portraits Institut du monde contemporain <p>One of Albert O. Hirschman's contributions to economic theory is a richer understanding of the concept of the “rational actor,” which, he demonstrated, possesses the deliberative capacities that democratic market societies require. This following is a profile of an economist who was also a dissident and an activist.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Explanation-Explained https://booksandideas.net/Explanation-Explained 2012-08-30T09:27:30Z text/html en Matthieu de Castelbajac Society sociology epistemology domination action <p>The quality of an explanation depends much on the relationship between the sociologist and her informants. The more unequal it is, the more she will resort to “third person” explanations—a tendency most visible among the fathers of the discipline. Yet listening to the actors does not necessarily mean turning to a “soft” sociology—because actors are able to map and explain the social space in which they live.</p>