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/An-Anti-Totalitarian-Publisher https://booksandideas.net/An-Anti-Totalitarian-Publisher 2026-04-16T07:30:00Z text/html en Robin Freymond History communism publishing anti-totalitarianism Aron Cairn.info right <p>Backed by Raymond Aron and Manès Sperber, the French publishing house Calmann-Lévy championed anti-communism and the fight against totalitarianism from the end of World War <span class="caps">II</span>.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Rise-of-the-New-Pandora-s-Box https://booksandideas.net/The-Rise-of-the-New-Pandora-s-Box 2016-03-03T08:00:00Z text/html en Élodie Edwards-Grossi science publishing biology <p>In a well-researched book, the sociologist Sébastien Lemerle delivers a breakthrough analysis of the dissemination and reception of biologism in France from the 1960s until the 2000s. Through the frenetic output of best-sellers linking biological theories to the explanation of social behaviors, he shows how biologists came to be considered as intellectuals in the public arena.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Geopolitics-of-Translation https://booksandideas.net/Geopolitics-of-Translation 2015-03-27T06:00:00Z text/html en Lucie Campos Society Arts Bourdieu translation publishing Florence Gould Foundation <p>As publishing markets become increasingly international, sociology looks at the translation of work in the social sciences and humanities. Gisèle Sapiro shows the effects that the crossover between the academic and publishing spheres has on translation practices.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Picturing-Fantasies https://booksandideas.net/Picturing-Fantasies 2011-09-07T07:41:00Z text/html en Claire Gallien Arts orientalism publishing <p>Robert Irwin's Visions of the Jinn looks at the illustrations of the Arabian Nights and provides a unique account of the history of publishing in modern Europe. By engaging this central work of orientalism, he retraces the evolution of European representations of the Arab world.</p>