Work: a disastrous dogma for Paul Lafargue
→ Best-of articles on WORK Paul Lafargue was a French socialist of the late 19th century, as well as Karl Marx’s son-in-law. His 1880 essay The Right to Laziness: The …
Category: Philosophy
The virtual, Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), whose biography and major philosophical ideas can be read here, studied the works of famous philosophers and writers during his life and taught at the University of …
The good son and the best of fathers (A l’Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs – Marcel Proust)
Marcel Proust’sÀ la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is an extraordinary repository of reflections on family ties, on emotional relationships, and on society in general, as we pointed …
Darkness, the enemy of the Enlightenment according to Foucault
Michel Foucault in an interview dating back to 1977 declares : A fear haunted the second half of the eighteenth century: it is the dark space, the screen of darkness …
Letter to Schuller – Baruch Spinoza
You will find here the briefly commented passages of Baruch Spinoza’s letter to Schuller, shedding light on his vision of freedom. → Find here corrected commentary on this same letter …
The relationship between the urban and the rural in the face of current changes
The relationship between the urban and the rural in the face of current changes A. The distinction between urban rural and predominantly urban space – predominantly rural space rural areas Bernard Henri …