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
The Middle Ages and its migrants
Forestiere, foreign or stranger, forain or étranger: the words designate someone who is not from “here”. By studying the figure
How to reduce police violence?
As deadly police violence once again inflames the United States, some fifteen researchers are evaluating the effectiveness of reforms aimed
War without rules
Although it is without rules, irregular warfare is not without techniques. Western strategists have drawn inspiration throughout the XXe century
India in a fig leaf
In India, sexuality and feminist movements are increasingly present in the public space. But gender sometimes masks other social categories
A French History of Transhumanism
Transhumanism, which is attributed to Silicon Valley and GAFAwould he have French origins? The thesis, which links the utopia of
Medea in Geneva
In 1885, in Geneva, a mother slit the throats of her four children, before placing white lilacs on their corpses.
The English Origins of Aesthetics
From the analogy between the perception of colors and the judgment of beauty, L. Jaffro reconstructs the debates which presided
The art of the spider
Sex, Devouring, Creating: A rich multilingual anthology of world literature from 1842 to 1980 reweaves the myth of the octopod