Russian loans on the Paris market
What happened to the “Russian loans” after the Bolshevik revolution? In this study of geo-economic power relations, Kim Oosterlinck traces
Extreme fashion
A part of German youth is attracted by fashion brands that make more or less explicit references to far-right ideology.
Blanchot in May
Out of time, Blanchot? Putting his archives into perspective proves on the contrary how active this author, often referred to
The key to the fields
In India and Sierra Leone, in Europe and Mexico, in France in the 1970s and even in revolutionary Tunisia, everywhere
Istanbul Excess
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party, theAKPmake the “new Istanbul” the showcase of their political project: that of rebuilding Turkey
Ottoman Worlds
The Ottoman Empire was, for almost 7 centuries, a whole that was both united and diverse. This new Dictionary of
Green currency
Socially responsible investment, green bonds, extra-financial rating agencies: in recent years, “climate finance” has been developing. Without the involvement of
Bad books
What works did Enlightenment readers appreciate? Do some of those they condemned for aesthetic or moral reasons deserve to be
All the music of the Arab world
How to present fifteen centuries of Arabic music to the French public while avoiding the pitfall of orientalism? The first
Here comes summer
La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publications on Monday, August 27. In the meantime, here