learning curve

Roland Barthes said of himself somewhere that he took up in turn the great intellectual enthusiasms of his time without ever committing hims...

There follow some quick thoughts on reading Emile Boutroux’s 1874 philosophy thèse, De la contingence des lois de la nature . The essentia...

Yesterday, I was told that Toni Morrison would be giving a reading here at the ENS the next day. I had seen no signs, had heard nothing. S...

"L’esprit emprunte à la matière les perceptions d’où il tire sa nourriture, et les lui rend sous forme de mouvement, où il a imprimé sa...

Durkheim begins “Représentations individuelles et représentations collectives” by defending the use of analogy as a tool of scientific analy...

Pierre Rosanvallon provides an interesting little introduction to the “Republique des Idées” supplement to Le Monde for the 29th of April, 2...

Foucault’s 1978 lecture “Qu’est-ce que la critique?” discusses, at some length, Kant’s short text answering the question, “Was ist Aufkläru...