Research, heritage, controversy - these are just some of the forms the movement of ideas can take. The history of thought is not restricted to grandiose and impenetrable systems; it also includes a large volume of speeches, polemics, and conceptual migrations from one branch of thought to another. The "La croisée des chemins" collection publishes texts on the subject of intellectual history and its current impact: philosophy, political and legal theory, the aesthetics and challenges of scientific practices. It also sets out to promote foreign research in these areas and to make available to readers the key texts which are regarded as milestones in this history.
This book discusses traditional skeptical questions concerning external world, other minds, induction and the reality of the past, and some types of reductionism concerning moral properties, colors, mental states and universals.
Théoriser l'interaction sociale
Theorizing social interaction
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Dedicated to the work of Gregory Bateson and the epistemological controversies that plagued anthropology in the 1930s, this book reconstructs the classic debates in the field from the perspective of Bateson's heterodox position. In so doing, the book aims to contribute to contemporary debates on social interaction and cognition.
Building on an innovative reading of D.Hume's Treaty On Human Nature, this work revisits the way the concept of self is approached, by considering it neither as a thing nor a being, but as a simple representation that originates in our emotional lives.
L'enseignement moral et civique entre rénovation et précarisation
Moral and Civic Education between Renewal and Precariousness
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Through the implementation in French schools of a renewed moral and civic education program starting in 2015, the book examines the multiple conditions - political, institutional, organizational and intellectual - governing the education of the citizen, and explores its possibilities.
Parenté, mariage et propriété dans la philosophie des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Kinship, marriage and property in 17th and 18th century philosophy
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This book gathers several studies on the family and on the way early modern philosophers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Pufendorf, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Diderot did conceptualize, explain and describe it. The texts focus on juridical, moral, political issues.
This multi-disciplinary book brings together scientific and poetic contributions that explore the ecological stakes involved in the individual and collective experiences of nature that we, as inhabitants of the Earth and of a given territory, make and share.
Repenser l'histoire depuis l'art paléolithique
Rethinking History through Paleolithic Art
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Through an epistemological analysis of history and a philosophical reflection on the knot between art, history and humanity, the book explores the concepts and models that prehistorians, anthropologists and art historians have mobilised to give prehistory a place in the history of art and in our culture.
Postérité, réappropriations et perspectives critiques
Posterity, Reappropriations and Critical Perspectives
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The formula « voluntary servitude » is mobilized without being necessarily referred to La Boétie's Discourse. The paradoxical and enigmatic aspect of the expression seduces. This book provides a critical analysis of it and proposes avatars that are more suitable to explain the phenomenon it indicates.
What traces has Christianity left in our lives? This question runs through Foucault's work, from research on modern confession to that on Antiquity. This book offers the first synthesis of it. Far from the usual ascetic image, Foucault makes Christianity a fragile relationship with the truth.
La confrontation d'idées sous la forme du dialogue dans la littérature médiévale et ses échos à la Renaissance
The confrontation of ideas in dialogical form in medieval literature and its echoes in the Renaissance
L'autonomie des établissements publics d'enseignement secondaire en France, de l'Ancien Régime à nos jours
The Autonomy of Public Secondary Schools in France, from the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
Stéphanie Lanfranchi, Armelle Girinon, Alessandro Martini
Modèles didactiques et formation des enseignants : pratiques et modèles en jeu (II)
Didactic models and teacher training: Practices and models at play (II)