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/How-to-dissent https://booksandideas.net/How-to-dissent 2025-02-04T07:30:00Z text/html en Frédéric Martel Philosophy sionism left justice political theory <p>In this recent interview, Walzer reflects on his life of political commitment. From the creation of <i>Dissent</i> to the publication of the acclaimed <i>Spheres of Justice</i>, here is the journey of one of the most influential political theorists of the XXth century.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News https://booksandideas.net/The-Birth-of-Fake-News 2020-05-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Sarah Maza History democracy reason truth political theory Books and ideas originals post-truth technocraty <p>While the expression “fake news” appeared recently, the problem itself, Sophia Rosenfeld argues, can be retraced to the very birth of democracy. Drawing upon the history of ideas, <i>Democracy and Truth</i> investigates the roots of current tensions around the question of truth in politics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Democracy-With-or-Without-Borders https://booksandideas.net/Democracy-With-or-Without-Borders 2020-01-02T08:00:00Z text/html en Camille Pascal Politics democracy migration state nation refugees political theory Institut français borders political philosophy migration hospitality <p>Can a state exclude people in the name of the common good? What gives legitimacy to definitions of borders and belonging? In this work of political theory, B. Boudou argues for a pragmatic, democratic and shifting approach to borders: only shared interests can define a community.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Age-of-Fracture https://booksandideas.net/The-Age-of-Fracture 2015-12-07T08:00:00Z text/html en Timothy Scott Johnson Politics Society France History crisis political theory political party <p>For France the 1970s marked a shift in political attitudes and intellectual trends. Surveying political changes over four decades, a new collection of essays seeks to find the proper vocabulary to capture France's contemporary situation. From this collective work, readers may conclude that fracture could in fact be the first step to building something new.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Universal-Us-Rethinking-Cosmopolitanism https://booksandideas.net/Universal-Us-Rethinking-Cosmopolitanism 2015-04-06T05:00:00Z text/html en Martin Deleixhe Politics Philosophy cosmopolitanism political theory migration <p>Cosmopolitanism seems to have lost its critical edge. While it used to be a critical ideology prescribing a more universal world, it now appears to merely describe the globalized world we live in. But has cosmopolitanism really lost touch with its radical roots ? Could it not reconnect with its previous ability to challenge arbitrary exclusions? Revisiting demanding theories of democracy in a post-national light, James D. Ingram sketches the possible contours of a new radical cosmopolitics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/My-Crystal-Ball-is-Cloudy-The-Historian-as-Public-Intellectual https://booksandideas.net/My-Crystal-Ball-is-Cloudy-The-Historian-as-Public-Intellectual 2014-11-13T09:00:00Z text/html en Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz History United States of America race political theory segregation Text Interviews <p>How is history relevant to current debates about race, economic inequality or the national narrative? A renowned historian of urban crises and segregation, Thomas Sugrue proposes an answer that emphasizes both the value of passion and that of careful scholarship. Historians can and should engage in public debate, but on their own terms.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Human-Rights-and-Politics https://booksandideas.net/Human-Rights-and-Politics 2012-10-24T12:18:36Z text/html en Justine Lacroix Carousel Philosophy justice human rights political theory Institut français <p>Are human rights a cornerstone of democracy, or a threat to social ties? Are they a precondition for the existence of a public space, or a triumph of individualism? Political thinkers have debated these questions during the last three decades. In this essay, Justine Lacroix explains the issues and the current situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Empirical-Sociology-of https://booksandideas.net/The-Empirical-Sociology-of 2012-02-14T20:33:08Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society Carousel Bourdieu critique institutions pragmatism epistemology domination social classes political theory Institut français Text Interviews <p>Sociologist Luc Boltanski situates his most recent publications and their main concepts within his broader intellectual trajectory, examining critical sociology and the sociology of critique, and what they can tell us about today's social situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Nature-and-Limits-of-the https://booksandideas.net/The-Nature-and-Limits-of-the 2011-04-20T07:07:00Z text/html en Pasquale Pasquino Politics Carousel Europe decision-making Constitution political theory <p>Constitutional courts are more and more important in our lives. But how can they be legitimate? Pasquale Pasquino shows that political theory cannot ignore the existence of these new bodies, any more than it can ignore the limitations of majority decisions.</p>