This book tries to understand how problems can be desirable by contrast with common sense which associates "problems" with "troubles". This research is in line with the great philosophies of the problem (Dewey, Bachelard, Deleuze, Meyer) with Michel Fabre has shown the importance to understand that it means to think.

This book tries to understand how problems can be desirable by contrast with common sense which associates "problems" with "troubles". This research is in line with the great philosophies of the problem (Dewey, Bachelard, Deleuze, Meyer) with Michel Fabre has shown the importance to understand that it means to think.

This work, both a historical and sociological survey drawn from a doctoral thesis in sociology, shows how a form of excellence developed in mountaineering as a particular field of practice. the object of this investigation is to reveal how the ideologies of the English bourgeoisie who gave birth to it live on in the spirit of mountaineering.

This work, both a historical and sociological survey drawn from a doctoral thesis in sociology, shows how a form of excellence developed in mountaineering as a particular field of practice. the object of this investigation is to reveal how the ideologies of the English bourgeoisie who gave birth to it live on in the spirit of mountaineering.