The fetishism of order
In a collection of articles finally translated into French, Norbert Elias criticizes the errors of his compatriots, essentially the German
Pregnancy administration
While, at the beginning of the XXe century, abortion was repressed in metropolitan France against a backdrop of pro-natalist policies,
To split your sides
Laughter, long considered instinctive, has a history. It took off in the democratic era, when societies became industrialized and globalized.
Anthology of working lives
What is the “Party autobiography”? The injunction to tell one’s story, a practice imported from Moscow that has become obligatory
Iceland in its crises
Iceland has been experiencing a succession of political and financial scandals since 2008. However, we should not lose sight of
A couple injured in the Algerian war
Two sociologists have studied the correspondence exchanged in the early 1960s by a couple of schoolteachers separated by war and
The Bicentennial, from the inside
Historian Michel Vovelle looks back at the “battle” provoked by the Bicentenary of the French Revolution throughout the 1980s. In
Winter garden
La Vie des idées is suspending its activities during these holidays. We will resume our publication schedule on Monday 1er
What is shared
On the occasion of the publication of the Dictionary of Common GoodsMarie Cornu questions the concept of common goods and
Young and already without a future
Based on an ethnographic approach, a collective work studies the changes undergone by young people from working-class backgrounds: insecurity, a