La Vie des Idées is taking a little rest. We will resume our publishing rhythm on August 24. Here, in the meantime, is a selection of texts and interviews published since September 2014.
Trials
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Thomas Coutrot, “ Competitiveness is a dead idea »
The quest for competitiveness is not only wrong, it is dangerous, because it masks the real challenges and the real issues for the future of our economies and our societies. This is the thesis supported by Thomas Coutrot, co-founder of Les Economistes atterrés and spokesperson for Attac.
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Guillaume Lachenal, “ The quest for the origins of AIDS »
The question of the origin of AIDS has given rise to numerous studies. Away from conspiracy or culturalist theses, Guillaume Lachenal shows that it is less a question of identifying a cause than of reconstituting the colonial, epidemiological and sexual context which favored the spread of the virus.
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Pierre Merle, “ Should we put an end to grades? ? »
Student grading is increasingly contested, particularly by researchers. Pierre Merle summarizes the conclusions of this work at a time when institutions are tackling the issue and suggests avenues for renewing student evaluation practices.
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Ivan Jablonka, “ History and comics »
What if historians and designers teamed up ? To make this pair work, we can choose to illustrate the “ History “. We can also draw inspiration from surveys and drawn reports, guided by reasoning, based on original questions and new sources.
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Nathalie Moureau, “ All that glitters is not gold »
Does the price of a work of art correspond to its artistic value? ? The economist Nathalie Moureau shows that economic value and artistic value of contemporary work are generally disconnected, giving rise to the appearance of speculative bubbles. Three main factors then explain this discrepancy: media information, the search for distinction, and speculation.
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François Sarfati, “ University facing dropout »
The dropout of students at the University cannot be separated from the dropout of the University itself, and its segmentation within higher education and a rapidly changing world of research.
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Interviews
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Nicolas Delalande, “ Death of Rémi Fraisse: the State put to the test – Interview with Fabien Jobard »
Rémi Fraisse is the first death in demonstration under a left-wing government under the Ve Republic. How did we get here, and what does this tragedy tell us about the conditions of maintaining order in France? ? For Fabien Jobard, political scientist and police specialist, only a parliamentary commission would allow all the political consequences of this event to be drawn.
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Pauline Peretz & Olivier Pilmis & Nadège Vezinat, “ Life in society: an improvisation – Interview with Howard Becker »
The American sociologist Howard Becker is known for his rejection of theory and his attachment to the ethnographic observation of worlds in which he himself is the actor. Asking yourself “ how » rather than “ Why » constitutes one of its main lessons for sociologists.
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Cristelle Terroni, “ Contemporary art made in France – Interview with Anne Martin-Fugier »
How the world of French contemporary art works ? In a series of interviews, historian Anne Martin-Fugier gives voice to the players in this world: gallery owners, collectors and artists. Here she returns to contemporary work: creation, recognition, value, passion.
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Marie-Pierre Ulloa, “ “ Cinema is more authoritarian than literature »: Interview with Amos Gitaï »
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï looks at the relationships between cinema and literature, memory, space, language. He notably mentions the adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Jérôme Clément which traces the quest of a son in search of the painful past of his Jewish mother.
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Nicolas Duvoux, “ Islam and public authorities in France: Interview with Solenne Jouanneau and Étienne Pingaud »
Based on their empirical research on imams in France and municipal Islam in Nanterre, sociologists Solenne Jouanneau and Étienne Pingaud shed light on the history of the Muslim religion in France, its relationships with central and local institutions and forms of life. and social practices that political and media debates obscure.
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Laurent Aucher & Frédérique Barnier, “ The business of dispossession: Interview with Danièle Linhart »
From Taylorism to modern management, work organization models have always sought, according to Danièle Linhart, to strip employees of their professional knowledge. This dispossession in work is also subjective today, which makes it very difficult to combat.
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Reviews
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Antoine Grandjean, “ Political animal ? »
Animals are, according to S. Donaldson and W. Kymlicka, much more than beings towards whom we have duties, our fellow citizens ; and our relations with them are of a political nature. The thesis is radical, but fragile: it misunderstands both the nature of the animal and that of the citizen.
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Valérie Theis, “ The monarchy investigates »
Louis IXsays Saint Louis, ordered several repair investigations during his reign. These made it possible to obtain both the consent of the populations to royal domination and the salvation of the king himself. In this sense, they constitute an important milestone in the construction of the French monarchy.
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Ismaïl Ferhat, “ National Front, a winding journey »
The National Front has been rooted in French political life for thirty years now. However, behind the figure of its historic leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party has undergone a winding evolution.
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Eric Charmes, “ One France against the other ? »
For Ch. Guilluy, there are two Frances: the France of the metropolises, where opportunities are great, and the peripheral France of the villages, where populations have the feeling of being ignored and abandoned by public policies. Much has been said about the opposition. It is very much debatable, undoubtedly more ideological than scientific.
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François Bonnet, “ Climate change to escape capitalism ? »
No problem in the world is more important than climate change. In her latest work, Naomi Klein intends to show that fighting global warming involves getting away from capitalism. But how ?
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Jean-Hugues Déchaux, “ What Homosexuality Does to Parenthood »
What are the effects of same-sex parenthood on the kinship system in Western societies? ? The international contributions brought together by two anthropologists of kinship lead them to refute the thesis of an anthropological revolution or an upheaval of kinship at the risk of focusing solely on the question of multi-parenthood.
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Leïla Vignal, “ Syria, the barbaric state »
The revolution in Syrian society is an orphan: the regime of Bashar al-Assad, repressive and authoritarian, a little more cruel every day, is still in place. The lack of reaction from the international community, explains Ziad Majed, has a lot to do with it.
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Abdellali Hajjat & Nonna Mayer, “ Two communities, one destiny »
Maud Mandel’s book on Jews and Muslims in France shows the need to address anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as phenomena linked to each other in our society since the end of the Second World War. Abdellali Hajjat and Nonna Mayer offer a cross-reading.
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François Dubet, “ Secularism and its other »
Does secular rhetoric conceal a discourse of social order and the exclusion of the people and former colonized people? ? François Dubet underlines the interest in taking seriously the stiffening and conservative reversal of which secularism is the subject. It also invites us to qualify this thesis to find ways of a secular alternative.
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Daphne Le Roux, “ Why anthropology ? »
Philippe Descola’s work is built around a singular conceptual system, to which he returns at length in an interview book. He explains its genesis, follows its developments and shows how anthropology helps us today to understand modernity.
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