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/Digital-Literature https://booksandideas.net/Digital-Literature 2018-02-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Florent Coste Arts literature hermeneutics humanities Institut français big data <p>How does big data contribute to our understanding of Hugo, Balzac or Flaubert? A great deal, because far from being a mechanical accumulation of data on literary texts, the digital humanities transform our relationship to works and the way we read them.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Social-Utility-of-the https://booksandideas.net/The-Social-Utility-of-the 2011-04-26T06:34:00Z text/html en Solange Chavel Politics Philosophy education humanities <p>Is the teaching of the humanities a luxury that today's societies can no longer afford? Martha Nussbaum responds that, on the contrary, in a world of globalized economic competition, there are social and political reasons for studying the humanities.</p>