Down with education
Education – as it is conceived and practiced – is useless, quickly forgotten, expensive, unprofitable, and should be abolished. This
From infamous men to forest men
What if Foucault, after being interested in “infamous men”, had looked into the history of ecological marginalities, tracking down hermits,
Inequality in Seeds
Poverty and the greatest social inequalities of tomorrow are being built today in the routines of the youngest children. Speaking,
The little name of the great eras
What is a chrononym? The representation left in the vocabulary by a historical moment: “Restoration”, “Spring of Nations”, “Thirty Glorious
1946: The Kielce Pogrom
The pogrom in Kielce, less than 200 kilometres south of Warsaw, has been reconstructed minute by minute, in order to
When citizens write the law
Are citizens able to participate in the development of public policies as complex as the ecological transition, and by what
History in History
From the Thirty Years’ War to the Nazi period, including Frederick II and Bismarck, Christopher Clark studies the conception of
Threat to democracy
Democracies are fragile. As soon as their fundamental principles are attacked, they die. Their vitality depends on the political parties
What do coming-of-age novels teach us?
Nearly forty years after its original publication, the work in which Franco Moretti underlined the centrality of the novel of
Training of young achievers
The history of nursery school shows that educational practices evolve with the conceptions that we have of the child, from