The decline of French Catholicism
For G. Cuchet, the decline of French Catholicism, if it began in the XIXe century, accelerated abruptly during the 1960s,
A Stendhal, some Stendhaux
This essay attempts to identify what attracts Stendhal’s writing. Disconnection, exaltation of freedom, detestation of all conformisms, left-wing aristocratism explain
Literature for what purpose?
How can literature create politics? How does it configure the social world? It must be considered, explains F. Coste, as
A world of museums
Taking an ethnographic approach to museums, P. Levitt explains how, as a crucial link between past and present, local and
Living the death penalty
By studying the ritual dimension of capital execution in France, which is supposed to contribute to the edification of the
Writing in the wound
Is literature meant to heal us from the world? Alexandre Gefen examines the passion of the novels of XXIe century
Russian loans on the Paris market
What happened to the “Russian loans” after the Bolshevik revolution? In this study of geo-economic power relations, Kim Oosterlinck traces
Extreme fashion
A part of German youth is attracted by fashion brands that make more or less explicit references to far-right ideology.
Blanchot in May
Out of time, Blanchot? Putting his archives into perspective proves on the contrary how active this author, often referred to
The key to the fields
In India and Sierra Leone, in Europe and Mexico, in France in the 1970s and even in revolutionary Tunisia, everywhere