modern technology

Function or exist?

Fonctionner ou exister? by Miguel Benasayag Edition Le Pommier / Essays and documents, 17 October 2018 - 240 Pages Stop missing out on our lives! But what is going on in our Western societies for the Ancients of yesteryear to have become "old", to whom

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books

The book smugglers of Daraya

Daraya's Book Smugglers - A Secret Library in Syria, by Delphine Minoui Seuil Edition, October 2017 - 160 Pages There is no prison that can lock up free speech. There is no blockade strong enough to prevent information from circulating. "Extract from the dissident's speech

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Miguel Benasayag

The singularity of life

La singularité du vivant, by Miguel Benasayag Edition Le Pommier - Collection Manifeste, 24 October 2017 - 224 Pages From the fields of digital and molecular biology, we are told that the differences between the living and the machine, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between life and the living, between the living and the dead, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living.

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mesology

There, on the banks of the Yvette river - Mesological Dialogues

Là, sur les bords de l'Yvette - Dialogues mésologiques, by Augustin Berque Editions éoliennes, 2017 On the banks of the Yvette, a very learned old man, Dr. No, and his granddaughter Mélissa, a high school student in her second year, talk about mesology - the science of environments, that is, the specific relationship that every being has with the environment.

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sciences

Critique of the history of science

Critique de l'histoire des sciences, by Michel Blay CNRS Editions, April 2017 - 301 Pages The world and reason are not a problem, let's say, if you like, that they are mysterious, but this mystery defines them, there can be no question of dissipating it by any solution. It is in

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Against benevolence

Against the benevolence of Yves Michaud, Stock Edition, March 2016 - 192 Pages The reality is now everywhere: the power of religious fundamentalism, the rise of populism on both the right and the left, the discrediting of the political class, the rejection of the European construction, make the schemes obsolete.

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field democracy

Democracy in the fields

"Democracy in the fields. Du jardin d'Eden aux jardins partagés, comment l'agriculture cultivate les valeurs démocratiques" by Joëlle Zask - Edition La Découverte - Les empêcheurs de tourner en rond, March 2016 We are used to thinking that modern democracy comes from the Enlightenment, from the factory, from trade, from

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Miguel Benasayag

Brain increased, man decreased

"Cerveau augmenté, homme diminué" by Miguel Benasayag - Editions La Découverte, May 2016 The human brain knows, studies, explains and understands, to the point that it has come to take as an object of study... itself. And the new knowledge about how the brain works profoundly shakes up many of the beliefs that underlie the brain.

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Food

Food

Les Nourritures de Corine Pelluchon - Edition Seuil, January 2015 - 386 Pages This book is an original attempt to construct a "phenomenology of foods", starting from Levinas' intuitions on the dimensions that inscribe individual existence in a "living of": dependencies on the world, on food, on others,

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The race for performance

The race for performance

"LA COURSE À LA PERFORMANCE - Regards critiques de la philosophie sur la santé" by Gilbert LAROCHELLE & Françoise COURVILLE - Edition Beauchesne - 16 March 2016 " A book of synthesis where the critical views of a philosopher, Gilbert Larochelle, and a nurse, Françoise Courville, on the race cross paths.

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livre Edgar Morin

Penser global – L’humain et son univers

Penser global – L’humain et son univers – d’Edgar Morin – Edition Robert Laffont, 2 septembre 2015 – 131 pages   Nos connaissances sur l’humain, sur la vie, sur l’univers, sont en pleine expansion. Elles sont aussi séparées et dispersées. Comment les relier ? Comment affronter des problèmes qui sont

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Cynthia Fleury

The irreplaceable

Les irremplaçables de Cynthia Fleury – Edition Gallimard – Décembre 2015   Nous ne sommes pas remplaçables. L’Etat de droit n’est rien, sans l’irremplaçabilité des individus. L’individu, si décrié, s’est souvent vu défini comme le responsable de l’atomisation de la chose publique, comme le contempleur des valeurs et des principes

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book Place of l'universal

The place of the universal

Le Lieu de l’universel d’ Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel – Edition du Seuil – 2015 – 461 Pages   La philosophie contemporaine, continentale ou analytique, fait fausse route, selon Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, parce qu’elle est entièrement tournée vers l’objet considéré comme vrai par lui-même. Pour sortir des impasses dans lesquelles elle nous mène, il

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Cécile Renouard

Ethics and business

"Ethics and business" by Cécile Renouard - Les éditions de l'atelier, 2015 - 208 Pages The dominant economic and social model leads us to consume more than the available resources of our planet and to suffocate us. It is therefore an unsustainable model. In this context, companies have a

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