The state and construction of social identities
By studying the care of the deaf-mutes and the blind at XIXe century, François Buton opens the “ black box
Art without quality
If contemporary art persists in arouing rejection and misunderstanding, it is, pleads J.-P. Cometti, due to an essentialist prejudice. In
Military prison and colonial relegation
The word is pleasant, cruel reality: Biribi designated the “ punitive archipelago “That the French army had organized on the
Randomly in public space
In a summary book, Thierry Paquot, philosopher of the urban, retraces the history of the notion of public space. He
The golden age of young retirees
In this interview, Louis Chauvel is considering pension reform from the angle of his general demographic issues. It scrutinizes the
Value experience at work
Anne-Marie Guillemard talks about the question of pensions from the angle of the employment of seniors. For her, it is
Why don’t the French want to work longer
Politist Bruno Caller draws up a panorama of the situation of the French pension system. It highlights the challenges of
Universalize the right to retirement
The economist Thomas Piketty analyzes the effects of the fragmentation of the French pension system. After rehabilitating his qualities too
French company to the test of pension reform
To understand the challenges of the pension reform that is announced, The life of ideas offers a series of interviews
Social diversity at school: a family affair?
Analyzing the school segregation processes remains a major research object at a time when more and more voices denounce the