Trot, Lights!
By tracing the travels in Europe of a bookseller, the historian Robert Darnton confirms the role of mediators in the
The Greeks from top to bottom
Ancient Greek society was much more unequal and hierarchical than the idea of democracy suggests. It was better to be
Cuba under the words
The characteristic of totalitarianism is to corrupt language and customs: you say one thing, you think another. The Cuban regime
Is growth really so low?
Is the slowdown in economic activity observed in developed countries over the past 30 years the result of a real
Fascist violence
Italian fascism was undeniably a totalitarianism – it notably presented the violence and the ambition to transform man at all
The game space
What space is created between a musical work and its listener? Beyond questions of spatialization of sound, the acoustic space
The Greek city, a model?
In the Greek city, historian Josiah Ober sees a model of elementary democracy: the political participation of the people is
Peguy outside the system
Is the unclassifiable Charles Péguy, finally, a philosopher? This is the thesis defended by Camille Riquier, who brings together in
After materialism?
Science is based on a materialist conception of nature that it is unable to justify. Even neuroscience cannot account for
Mandatory happiness
In a stimulating essay, Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz denounce the “sciences of happiness” in the service of neoliberal ideology.