Free trade or protectionism?
At a time when supporters of free trade and defenders of protectionism clash again in Europe and in the world,
To the colonial origins of geography
The scientific constitution of geography in France at XIXe century has been linked to the construction of the colonial empire.
Geography of capitalism
Inventor of “ radical geography “, David Harvey tries to reconcile Marxism and geography to show that cities and terroirs
“Let no one enter here if he is a botanist”
In his Philosophers herbariumJ.-M. Drouin collects and classifies with meticulousness the philosophers-botanists according to the problems treated and the historical
The future of American power according to Robert Kagan
Faced with the setbacks suffered by the American army in the Middle East, the right seeks to redefine the foreign
Summer selection
Since its creation in October 2007, the Laviedesidees.fr site has published one article per day on average. Many of you
Mallarmé Sociologist of the Republic of Letters
In the line drawn by Bourdieu, but by other ways, Pascal Durand offers a model of sociology of literature by
Sociology outside the academic world
On the occasion of his tenth anniversary, the review Practical sociologies highlights the contemporary practices of sociology and proposes an
Prague’s cultural splendor
Prague at the heyday: cosmopolitan, multilingual city, a place of a Czeco-German rivalry which never ceased, or almost, to be
Stéphane Mosès, thinker of Judaism
After having operated a “ Back to Judaism “, The philosopher Stéphane Mosès (died in 2007) dialogued all his life