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Interweaving Eastern and Western Perspectives

About: Hans Belting, Florence et Bagdad. Une histoire du regard entre orient et occident, Paris 2012. (English translation: Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Harvard University Press, 2011.)

by Christian Joschke & translated by Nicole Forstenzer, 2 May

In Florence and Baghdad, Hans Belting writes a new history of the human gaze based on its symbolic value in relation to the image. His starting point is the cultural transfer between the East and (...)

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Essais & débats

Révolution et redistribution

Réflexions sur la France et l’Egypte

par Charles Walton & traduit par Emilie L’Hôte, le 23 avril

Et si l’économie était la grande oubliée des révolutions ? Depuis deux décennies, les questions politiques et culturelles ont relégué la justice sociale au rang de préoccupations secondaires. Selon (...)

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Essais & débats

Pourquoi les crises financières donnent naissance à des légendes

par Nathan Marcus & traduit par Kate McNaughton, le 19 décembre 2012

Les banquiers et les régulateurs doivent-ils endosser la crise ? Cette simplification pourrait être aussi malavisée que la tendance des Allemands à accuser la France et la Grande Bretagne d’être (...)

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Essays

The Creation of Defence in China

Revisiting the Trial of the Gang of Four

by Judith Bout & translated by Susannah Dale, 17 December 2012

The trial of the Gang of Four, which included Mao Zedong’s wife, took place after the end of the Cultural Revolution, during the winter of 1980-81. In the West, it is usually seen as a show trial; (...)

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Reviews

Peace perpetually reconsidered

Reviewed : Bruno Arcidiacono, Cinq types de paix. Une histoire des plans de pacification perpétuelle (XVIIe-XXe siècles), PUF

by Stella Ghervas & translated by Victoria Lazar Graham, 12 November 2012

In his analysis of the literature on peace initiatives from the Middle Ages to the current day, B. Arcidiacono documents the different notions of peace that have guided the human race in its (...)

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Essais & débats

Les États-Unis et l’homophobie

Recensé : Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Between a Man and a Woman : Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage, New York, 2010.

par Jennifer Merchant & traduit par Kate McNaughton, le 6 novembre 2012

Quels liens relient le mouvement chrétien conservateur américain contemporain à l’homophobie ? Se basant sur les textes de l’organisme chrétien Focus on the Family, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey explore le (...)

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Reviews

The Limits of Presidential Power

About: George C. Edwards III, Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency, Princeton University Press, 2012

by Aurélie Godet & translated by John Zvesper, 2 November 2012

When Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, most Americans saw him as a president committed to bringing significant change. But his progressive ambitions soon ran up against indifference (...)

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Essais & débats

La Fabrique du candidat républicain

Retour sur les primaires

par Christine Zumello & traduit par Barbara Turquier, le 30 octobre 2012

Pour les républicains, la primaire de l’élection présidentielle de 2012 devait exposer au grand jour la composition de leur parti. Comment répondre à la percée du Tea Party et au réalignement de (...)

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Reviews

Separations: The Female Perspective

About: François de Singly, Separated. Living Through a Break-Up, Armand Colin.

by Cécile Van de Velde & translated by Susannah Dale, 29 October 2012

In his new work, François Singly continues to explore the transformations of marital bonds. This time, he approaches it from another angle—that of the “process of uncoupling” experienced by women who (...)

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Reviews

For the Love of André

About: Aragon, Lettres à André Breton (1918-1931), Gallimard

by Daniel Bougnoux & translated by Eric Rosencrantz, 19 September 2012

Those I love create me, said the author of Le Fou d’Elsa. Aragon’s first great love was for André Breton: the letters he wrote to his mentor between 1918 and 1931 testify to the torments of a moral, (...)

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Reviews

Europe at the Highest Level

About: Luuk van Middelaar, The passage to Europe, Yale University Press, 2013.

by Stéphanie Novak & translated by Susannah Dale, 17 September 2012

Luuk van Middelaar puts forward an alternative history of the European construction by analysing the various types of discourse on Europe, the influence of international events and overdue (...)

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Reviews

Serve the People

About: J. Dalarun, Gouverner, c’est servir. Essai de démocratie médiévale, Alma, 2012, 453 p.

by Corinne Peneau & translated by John Zvesper, 12 September 2012

“The last shall be first.” In the Middle Ages, having political power was understood as providing a service: effectively forestalling revolt. In the twelfth century, certain experiences in (...)

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When the Check-Out Staff Checked Out

About: Marlène Benquet, Les damnés de la caisse. Grève dans un hypermarché, Éditions du croquant.

by Sophie Bernard & translated by Victoria Lazar Graham, 6 July 2012

Whilst staff working conditions in the supermarket industry have often been criticised by the media and social scientists alike, supermarket distribution nevertheless remains a sector largely (...)

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Reviews

The Ephrussi Treasure

About: Edmund De Waal, La Mémoire retrouvée, Albin Michel.

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Victoria Lazar Graham, 15 June 2012

Through the remarkable story of the journey of 264 Japanese miniatures, a world-renowned ceramicist retraces the rise and fall of his family, the Ephrussi, rich Jewish bankers with a dynasty (...)

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Essays

Italy: The Temptation of Revisionism

by Fabrice Jesné & Simon Sarlin & translated by Arthur Goldhammer, 2 June 2012

As Italy celebrated the 150th anniversary of its unification, revisionist historians radically challenged the standard history of unification and its consequences. This offensive, backed by (...)

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Essais & débats

Chicago : une ville au bord du gouffre

par Andrew J. Diamond & traduit par Cristelle Terroni, le 29 mai 2012

Chicago vient de recevoir un sommet de l’OTAN que les manifestants d’Occupy et autres protestataires n’ont guère malmené. L’historien Andrew Diamond prévoyait quelques temps auparavant les limites (...)

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Settling Up with the Bank

About: Jeanne Lazarus, L’Épreuve de l’argent. Banques, banquiers, clients, Calmann-Levy.

by Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard & translated by Susannah Dale, 21 May 2012

What does a human life look like to a bank teller? The banking system’s rules of variable geometry mean that the morality of money is not the same for everyone. Money cuts across social boundaries (...)

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Essais & débats

Mégarégions et villes globales

De nouvelles configurations spatiales pour l’intégration urbaine

par Saskia Sassen & traduit par Cristelle Terroni, le 2 mai 2012

Les grands ensembles métropolitains peuvent-ils être soutenables ? Étudiant deux configurations émergentes, la mégarégion et la ville globale, la sociologue Saskia Sassen explore les voies d’un partage (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Europe: Another Useless Treaty?

An interview with Renaud Dehousse

by Stéphanie Novak & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 1 May 2012

On March 2012, 25 EU Member States signed a new treaty to increase coordination between economic policies within the Union, something Germany in particular was keen on. Will this allow them to (...)

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Essays

Two cities with School Segregation? 2/2

Paris

by Marco Oberti & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 27 April 2012

French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)

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Reviews

New Light on a Colonial Massacre

About: Emmanuel Blanchard, La Police parisienne et les Algériens (1944-1962), Nouveau Monde éditions; Jacques Panijel, Octobre à Paris; and Yasmina Adi, Ici on noie les Algériens.

by Muriel Cohen & translated by John Zvesper, 24 April 2012

A recent book and two documentaries shed new light on the repression of the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. By looking at these events in their long-term context, they (...)

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Essays

Louis Dumont’s Political Thought

by Vincent Descombes & translated by John Zvesper, 17 April 2012

Louis Dumont is very well known for his anthropological work on India, but rather less for his political thought. Vincent Descombes emphasizes the substantial originality of that thought, which (...)

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Reviews

The Soviet Union: A Shaky Welfare State

About: Dorena Caroli, Histoire de la protection sociale en Union soviétique (1917-1939), L’Harmattan.

by Grégory Dufaud & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 10 April 2012

Though the Soviet system’s ambitions were initially universalistic, the system of social protection that it established quickly proved discriminatory and insufficiently generous. In a recent book, (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

The Fight against Corruption

Interviews with Philippe Aghion and William Bourdon

by David Bornstein & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 April 2012

Democracies must be able to promote economic innovation. In France, however, the media and the judicial system are not independent from the state and public policies are not evaluated. The (...)

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Essays

What Images Show

An Interview with Philippe Descola

by Philippe Simay & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 5 April 2012

The curator of the recent La fabrique des images exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, anthropologist Philippe Descola offers a new approach of pictorial representations on the five (...)

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Essays

The Greek State: Its Past and Future

An interview with Anastassios Anastassiadis

by Nicolas Delalande, 20 March 2012

The Greek crisis is above all a crisis of the Greek state and its legitimacy. One must look back to the nineteenth century to understand its people’s defiance of bureaucrats and the role of (...)

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Reviews

Employment in France: Past and Future

About: P. Askenazy, Les décennies aveugles, Seuil.

by Matthieu Bunel & translated by Susannah Dale, 16 March 2012

Philippe Askenazy paints a very negative picture of 40 years of employment policy in France. He does not just criticise, but strives to draw recommendations for the future and find the path (...)

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Essays

How Should Executives Be Paid?

by Claire Célérier & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 13 March 2012

The explosion of executive pay in recent decades in all Western countries has been the object of considerable criticism. But it has also given rise to an important debate among economists. A (...)

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La campagne des idées

Une citoyenneté pour le XXIe siècle

Entretien avec Bruce Ackerman

par Thomas Grillot & Jean-Claude Monod & traduit par Emilie L’Hôte, le 5 mars 2012

Bruce Ackerman, chercheur en droit de renommée mondiale, veut redonner tout son sens à l’exercice de la citoyenneté dans les démocraties actuelles. Il revient ici sur les fondements intellectuels de (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Islam and the Republic: Towards a Reasonable Accommodation

An Interview with John Bowen

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 2 March 2012

In France, Islamic institutions follow the Republic’s rules, respect the legal and political system, but suffer from the fact that the principle of religious equality is contradicted by popular (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Housing: Helping Those Who Really Need It

An Interview with Fanny Bugeja

by David Bornstein & Pauline Peretz & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 24 February 2012

It is neither simple nor cheap for French people to find housing, especially if they are young. This fuels social inequalities and recent programs, with their emphasis on homeownership, have made (...)

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Essais & débats

Race et santé dans l’Amérique contemporaine

Entretien avec Alondra Nelson

par Pauline Peretz & traduit par Emilie L’Hôte, le 21 février 2012

La création de programmes de santé réservés aux Noirs et des pratiques tels que les tests d’ascendance génétique risquent-ils de provoquer le retour d’un Apartheid médical dans l’Amérique contemporaine ? (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Getting Employment Going Again

An Interview with Philippe Askenazy

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 10 February 2012

If we want to adjust to the world the crisis has thrust us in, we will have to stop blaming unemployment on the “French Model.” For economist Philippe Askenazy, we need to shift from a vision of (...)

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Livres & études

Un désert loin d’être vide

À propos de : G. Lydon. On Trans-Saharan Trails : Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. , Cambridge.

par Alden Young & traduit par Emilie L’Hôte, le 9 février 2012

Ghislaine Lydon met en lumière les réseaux commerciaux qui dominent le Sahara depuis toujours. Le tableau qu’elle dresse de l’évolution des institutions économiques et sociales devrait faire pièce à (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Open Data As a Key to Citizen Empowerment

An Interview with Dominique Cardon, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz & translated by John Zvesper, 20 January 2012

A citizen, if informed, is active and attentive. In a transparent democracy, public authorities are truly accountable to their voters and citizens trust their leaders. In this interview, (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Are we Represented?

An interview with Loïc Blondiaux

by Emilie Frenkiel & Ivan Jablonka & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 6 January 2012

The indignados movement signals people’s current dissatisfaction as regards political representation. Though pessimistic as to the political outlets of that mobilization, French political (...)

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