Crossed perspectives on France today

In a successful tribute to the work of Pierre Grémion, eleven intellectuals capture the evolution of democracy, intellectual life, relations

The Wolf and the Ring

Julie Saada attempts to circumscribe, in the political philosophy of Hobbes, a theory of the subject of law based on

How should bosses be paid?

The explosion in the remuneration of business leaders in recent decades, in all Western countries, has provoked a number of

From Bombay to Mumbai

In his work, Gyan Prakash offers a journey through the history of Bombay, understood through the myths and fables that

India: the agony of telecoms

Using a sociological, historical and economic approach, Dilip Subramaniam offers an exhaustive analysis of the evolution of the telecommunications industry

The elementary forms of happiness

How do we recognize happy people? ? A collective of ethnologists is leading the investigation, from neo-rural communities in the

The culture of poverty

In the United States, and also in France with the book by Hugues Lagrange, culture returns to the center of

Why the madness?

How do you get into psychosis? ? This classic question of psychiatry can be reversed: why do we enter psychosis

Summer pages

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