Nouveautés

"Dear Mr. Müller, A friend of my sister's advised me to write to you, saying that you could help me return to France. My father took my sister and me to Algeria and left us there against our will. He...

Money laundering accounts for 3% of global GDP ($3,000 billion). If it were a country, it would be the world's 8th largest, equivalent to the UK's GDP. The aim of this essay is to describe the mechanisms...

Quelques siècles après le grand zéro, les humanimaux dominent le monde.Devenue humaine de compagnie, Murphy découvre la cité de Valyrium où sa maîtresse, l'huma-louve Diamantine, réside. Mais elle veut...

The concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a small predatory class, repeated crises, the inability of politicians to influence the course of events, worsening inequalities and the end of growth...

“It's better to talk to you than to my parents; I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. “Anguish, when it takes hold of me, is a terrible abyss! “I don't know who I am anymore. It's like voices are talking...

“Wagner sums up modernity. No matter what you do, you have to start by being a Wagnerian.” Nietzsche Glorified in France and Germany in the 19th century, Wagner's image was distorted: the revolutionary...

In this biography, events guru William Perkins recounts the high points of his life and reveals his little secrets.For this new art of the grandiose and the ephemeral, the means deployed are immense and...

The Constitutional Council is the embodiment of wisdom and is responsible for defending the rule of law and the individual freedoms of the French people, by censuring a law if it considers it unconstitutional....

Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite? Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes...

Human beings have always questioned their identity in an attempt to understand themselves better and to develop. With the development of our societies and especially the new technological revolutions,...

"I'm here to put the internationals in order. I'm in charge here. Too many people showed up at the center and they had no business being there.” These are the words of an American instructor, met by Régis...

"I’ve heard it said that for alcoholics like me, there are only four possibilities: prison, the psychiatric ward, death or sobriety. I didn't go to jail, but did end up at the police station, in a drunk...

How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain?...

Should we be afraid of UFOs? In June 2021, NASA's boss admitted that "I’ve talked to those pilots, and they know they saw something, and their radars locked onto it, and then all of a sudden it was here,...

At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status in its own right within the performance, and constantly encourages the actor to...

For some, Péguy is “an anarchist who put holy water in his oil”; for others, a dangerous rebel whose “head is full of revolution”. A socialist and a Catholic, a pious poet and a raging polemicist, Péguy...

Préfaces de Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud et Marguerite Bouniol Le 23 décembre 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier est retrouvée assassinée dans sa propriété de Toormore, en Irlande. 17 ans après, malgré de...

The internal logic of the Nazi movement and the Third Reich is intertwined with that of Hitler: one cannot be understood without first considering the other. How did an individual with little education...

Jean Genet (1910-1986) was one of the most decisive writers of the 20th century. His work, consisting of poems, autobiographical novels, plays and short essays, was the subject of violent attacks, which...

Who was Nietzsche? What did he think? What was his journey, from his youth to his maturity? If we had to describe Nietzsche's philosophy, we would call it the philosophy of joy. Contrary to the clichés...

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: three men who, outside any democratic process, have occupied the throne of Europe's emperor: President of the ECB. Dutchman Wim Duisenberg resembles Louis XV: a beloved...

Pourquoi les femmes se maquillent-elles ? Les réponses des intéressées sont souvent évasives : «Pour se sentir bien...» Pourraient-elles cesser de se farder ? «Non !» L'idée de ne plus se maquiller peut...

Freud invented psychoanalysis. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) ensured that it did not disappear into deviations and compromises. His written work and his oral seminar constitute a decisive contribution to...

“This little book is a jewel of intelligence, finesse and culture, which takes a technical object without complaint and turns it over and over as Heidegger taught us to do with Van Gogh's shoes. What...

“If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution before morning.” Henry Ford Our contemporary liberal democracies have gradually given way...

Avec Descartes, Kant est l’auteur phare de la modernité : son influence dans les sciences, la morale, la politique et l’esthétique, est considérable. Une grande partie des dilemmes éthiques (biologie,...

“Neither a god, nor a guru, nor a savior” - who is Buddha? This essay sets out to understand this unclassifiable figure by taking stock of the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine and unravelling...

"I bought an El Al ticket. Destination Ben Gourion airport. Tel Aviv. Israel. 60 years ago, my mother was born a few dozen kilometers away. In Haifa, Palestine. So begins the story of the "return" of...

What are the founding principles of anarchism? What links the philosophy of Proudhon, who introduced this notion in France in 1840, to the act of the Italian Sante Geronimo Caserio, who assassinated President...

1.8 million people are directly affected by psychiatry in France. 350,000 are in hospital. For every 1,000 inhabitants, there is one compulsory hospitalization. Yet this system, which generates social...