Damn neoliberalism
Is neoliberalism martial in nature? This is the thesis defended by the authors of this work and who are based
To educate is to learn to die
Meditating on what a Spinozist education could be, P. Sévérac considers the passage from childhood to adulthood as that of
Summer harvests
La Vie des idées is on vacation. We will be back at the end of August. In the meantime, here
The assembly of algorithms
At the borders of ethnography, the history of computer science and the philosophy of science, Florian Jaton sheds light on
Will philanthropy meet the challenge of criticism?
Philanthropy is experiencing rapid growth in France and around the world, but certain abuses damage the nobility of this charitable
Great fortunes and world order
The current hyper-capitalist phase offers the big fortunes a key role on the transnational political scene. Peter Hägel investigates six
Justice before the state
For the anthropologist Christophe Darmangeat, societies without a state and devoid of wealth, such as those of the Australian Aborigines,
The powers of the Mondaine
The law is quite vague on what is meant by prostitution: it is often the police who are responsible for
eternal picure
Contrary to popular belief, the Middle Ages did not ostracize Epicureanism. Many thinkers stopped dialoguing with him, even though they
What should the world look like next?
In a short and ambitious manifesto, Margaret Levi and Federica Carugati call for redrawing our rules and our institutions by