Arlette Farge is a French historian who specializes in the study of the 18th century. She is a director of research at the CNRS, attached to the Center for Historical Research (CRH) at the EHESS. Among her books translated in English:… Continue Reading
Guillaume le Blanc is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. His research focuses on social and political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine. He is the author of Canguilhem et les normes (Paris, 1998),… Continue Reading
Kalinka Alvarez-Courtois is a PhD Candidate in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research interests include French literature and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, prison literature, autobiography, political science, contemporary philosophy and history, May 68 and… Continue Reading
Journée d’étude Mai 68, 50 ans après 23 mai 2018 EHESS 105 Boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris salle 13 10h – Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University/EHESS & Daniele Lorenzini, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles/CCCCT Introduction 10h10 – Arlette Farge, CNRS L’émeutier, un « primitif »… Continue Reading
By Reinhold Martin “We were born into a world of ghosts and illusions that have haunted our minds our entire lives.” So begins the anonymously authored “Communiqué 1,” which opens the inaugural issue of the journal Tidal in a tone that… Continue Reading
By Aurélie Vialette “A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.” These are Henry David Thoreau’s words, from his famous 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.[i] Thoreau, who asks the question “Must the citizen ever for a… Continue Reading
By Sandra Laugier Refusing to obey the law in order to show its injustice: this is the principle of civil disobedience defined by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1861). Today this principle is driving new protest movements, from Anonymous to zadist squatters.… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini C’est au sein d’un contexte intellectuel et politique très précis, celui de la démocratie américaine de la moitié du XIXe siècle et du courant philosophique du « transcendantalisme », que l’expression « désobéissance civile » a été forgée, recevant aussi sa… Continue Reading
Interview with Sandra Laugier and Albert Ogien © materiali foucaultiani mf : Mrs. Laugier, Mr. Ogien, we decided to request this interview regarding your book Pourquoi désobéir en démocratie ? (Éditions La Découverte, Paris 2010) because we find something remarkable, also from a Foucaldian point of view, in your… Continue Reading
By Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different. Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Revolutionary moments, like a thunderbolt… Continue Reading