Geography of the just and the unjust

As geography returns to the public debate, particularly through debates on territorial inequalities, Jacques Lévy, Jean-Nicolas Fauchille and Ana Povóas

Prehistory: the vertigo of time

Prehistory as a discipline emerged in XIXe century. The fragmentary traces on which it is based and the mystery that

All vulnerable

Can we think of social transformation from the perspective of vulnerability? Yes, explains Mr. Garrau, but to do so we

At the printing press of time

What does the literary text bring that historiography does not already know? A historian undertakes to meticulously render a short

The impossible overtaking

The supposed end of the “right-left” divide, put forward by the current majority in its accession to power, is, according

At the crossroads of modernity

Is the modernization of Japan due solely to Western influence, as is commonly thought, or does it derive from its

The Plague and the Fall

The Roman Empire collapsed because the climate changed in the 5th century.e century. The cooling favored the development of germs

In flesh and in Eros

The obscenity of libertine novels has long discredited them. Wrongly so: the pornographic writings of the Enlightenment freely and joyfully

Holiday workbooks

La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publications on Monday, August 26. In the meantime, here