Bad books

What works did Enlightenment readers appreciate? Do some of those they condemned for aesthetic or moral reasons deserve to be

All the music of the Arab world

How to present fifteen centuries of Arabic music to the French public while avoiding the pitfall of orientalism? The first

Here comes summer

La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publications on Monday, August 27. In the meantime, here

The uchronics

Counterfactual history is written with ifs. What if the Allies had lost World War II? What if there had been

Recognition of workers’ diseases

A sociological survey of the glassworkers of Givors reveals the difficulty in having occupational diseases recognized. It was only through

What history for Europe?

Designed to offer a “new history of Europe”, the collective book edited by Denis Crouzet disappoints. How are historians of

Photographic protests

The photographers of Provoke, a short-lived magazine that shook the Japanese art scene in 1968, wanted to “provoke thought” and

With all the others

The transformation of the world requires the transformation of oneself. The ethics of consideration, according to C. Pelluchon, must enable

Can capitalism be amended?

In a dialogue with his daughter, Giacomo Corneo considers the alternatives to current capitalism in search of a better system.