After the colonial conquest
The American historian Mary D. Lewis studies inter- and intra-imperial connections in Tunisia from the 1880s to 1930s, transformed into
Do historians have short ideas?
The hyperspecialization of historical studies is not inevitable. For David Armitage, professor at Harvard, it is urgent that intellectual history
Tour de France: the show and the money
The Tour de France commemorates the French Revolution, the Great War and even the Normandy landings. If the Tour is
The historian in the fray
Debates on memorial laws do not only divide political actors and civil society, but also historians among themselves. Can the
The literary democracy of Jacques Rancière
Modern literature has put an end to the division between the heroic and the common. Writers like Flaubert or Conrad
A visual history of female emancipation
Doctor, journalist, lawyer, but also coachwoman or postwoman, the woman who wears a “ man’s job » arouses disbelief, hilarity,
The tumults of the twentieth century
Antoine Compagnon discusses two recent projects that shed light on the intellectual history of XXe century. Controversies over the institutionalization
Summer scrapbook
La Vie des Idées is on vacation. We will resume our publishing rhythm from August 25. In the meantime, here
The Freak Show in the United States
In a context of institutionalization of Disability Studies – multidisciplinary studies around the issue of disability which combine research and
The geometry of differences
THE European vocabulary of philosophiesalso known as Dictionary of Untranslatablesis celebrating its tenth anniversary this year at the same time