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/A-World-of-Waste https://booksandideas.net/A-World-of-Waste 2026-03-31T08:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Philippe Pierron Philosophy environment nature technics Cairn.info <p>We would rather not see or even think about our waste, but it has a lot to tell us about our habits, our lives, and more importantly, about what we are doing to our world today.</p> 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/Roman-menus https://booksandideas.net/Roman-menus 2026-03-24T08:00:00Z text/html en Kevin Bouillot History culture medicine Rome Antiquity food Cairn.info <p>Ancient Roman diets were based on health concerns as well as moral and political considerations. Frugality and pleasure were not mutually exclusive. Eating was about more than filling one's stomach.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Golden-Age-of-Museum-Philanthropy https://booksandideas.net/The-Golden-Age-of-Museum-Philanthropy 2026-03-19T08:30:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Arts art museum philanthropy collection <p>At a time when public museums are struggling due to budget cuts and the need for renovations, the opening of many private foundations marks a shift in the Parisian museum landscape. Against this backdrop, G. Adam offers a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding the rise of private museums.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Serial-writers https://booksandideas.net/Serial-writers 2026-03-12T09:30:00Z text/html en Héloïse Boudon Arts television popular culture Cairn.info <p>How are television series written? Muriel Mille's study sheds light on a collective process based on a division of labor and time constraints. It represents a total break with the <i>auteur</i> ideal of New Wave cinema.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Capitalism-the-great-transition https://booksandideas.net/Capitalism-the-great-transition 2026-03-10T09:00:00Z text/html en Quentin Badaire capitalism History transition Cairn.info <p>Is it possible to identify the origin of the shift from feudalism to capitalism? Such a transition cannot be reduced to the expansion of trade or a linear evolution. It implies a transformation of social relations, work, and production.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Raised-Among-the-Ruins https://booksandideas.net/Raised-Among-the-Ruins 2026-03-05T09:00:00Z text/html en Charlotte Canizo France History Germany Italy childhood world war children Cairn.info <p>By adopting a child's perspective, Camille Mahé shows that younger children perceived the Second World War differently than adults.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Academic-inbreeding-new-estimates https://booksandideas.net/Academic-inbreeding-new-estimates 2026-03-03T09:50:00Z text/html en Olivier Godechot & Rachel Issiakou & Yann Renisio & Adrien Rougier Society university proximity <p>By analyzing nearly 8,000 recruitments for assistant professor positions in France between 2017 and 2024, Olivier Godechot, Rachel Issiakou, Yann Renisio, and Adrien Rougier revisit the long-standing and controversial issue of academic inbreeding.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-school https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-school 2026-02-26T08:30:00Z text/html en Nassim El Kabli Society liberalism schooling autonomy Cairn.info <p>School is mandatory and fully justified in being so. Educational authority in no way impairs freedom, provided it focuses on developing students' multiple capacities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Plato-Banned-American-Democracy-Threatened https://booksandideas.net/Plato-Banned-American-Democracy-Threatened 2026-02-24T08:00:00Z text/html en Nathan Bracher International United States of America university totalitarianism resistance censorship <p>Not only in Texas, where a professor was ordered to remove Plato from his syllabus, but throughout the United States, ideological dictatorship has begun. It amounts to nothing less than an attack on universities, the freedom of speech, and thought. How is it possible to resist in the face of this onslaught?</p>