Best of Books & Ideas, part 2: Intellectual Portraits

Books & Ideas is going on holiday for the summer, and will resume its publication schedule in September. In the meantime, we present you with a weekly roundup of our most recent essays and reviews. Our second summer selection features portraits of prominent intellectual figures: Albert Camus, René Dumont, Ronald Dworkin, Joan W. Scott and Max Weber.

Dossier's Articles

Review

The Tender Indifference of the World: Revisiting Albert Camus

, 28 May 2015

In an innovative study that returns Albert Camus’ early works to their rightful place in the canon, Laurent Bove suggests we (…)
Recension

Max Weber et l’étrange rationalité du capitalisme

par Isabelle Kalinowski, le 21 janvier 2014

Max Weber a-t-il été le chantre du capitalisme moderne et du triomphe de la raison occidentale ? Deux publications récentes répondent à cette question résolument par la (…)
Essay

Joan W. Scott’s Critical History of Inequality

by Clyde Plumauzille, 22 December 2014

For more than thirty years, Joan Scott has been informing and transforming both our history and the way we write history, while encouraging us to question categories and change (…)
Essay

Ronald Dworkin: Law as Novel Writing

by Julie Allard, 5 February 2015

Ronald Dworkin’s innovative and politically ambitious work has become essential reading in political and legal theory. Taking (…)
Essay

René Dumont: Utopia, Forty Years Later

by Alexandre Moatti, 19 February 2015

“Do we have the right to make bets on the future of mankind?” Forty-one years after being the first ecologist candidate in a (…)

Dossier(s) :
Ronald Dworkin: Law as Novel Writing
René Dumont: Utopia, Forty Years Later
Max Weber and Capitalism’s Strange Rationality

by Ophélie Siméon, 27 July 2015

Find us here :

To quote this article :

Ophélie Siméon, « Best of Books & Ideas, part 2: Intellectual Portraits. A Summer Selection », Books and Ideas , 27 July 2015. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : https://laviedesidees.fr/Best-of-Books-Ideas-part-2-Intellectual-Portraits

Nota Bene:

If you want to discuss this essay further, you can send a proposal to the editorial team (redaction at laviedesidees.fr). We will get back to you as soon as possible.