Daniel Sibony

Giving Yourself or Sharing Yourself ?

How can one be oneself without denying others? How can one consider others without negating oneself? How can one avoid the two extremes of complete selfishness and total self-sacrifice ? What if the ethics of the “other”, of responsibility for others — which can lead us to risk our lives for others — resulted not only in a dead-end (inefficient action, lack of action, justification of past actions) but also kept us from knowing ourselves and, consequently, others and the true nature of our relations with them? Daniel Sibony was trained as a philosopher and is a practising psychoanalyst.

Laurent Murawiec

War in the 21st Century

Juan Segui, Ludovic Ferrand

Lessons About Speech

Pierre Corvol, Nicolas Postel-Vinay

The Return of Dr Knock An Essay on Cardiovascular Risk

Annales de démographie historique

The Thread of Life Biographical and Genealogical Approaches

John R. Searle

The Mystery of Consciousness

Claude Fischler

Of Wine

The true wine lover is a rare breed. He doesn’t pontificate, instead he asks questions and reflects. When faced with a pompous connoisseur he shuts his eyes so he can sip and taste undisturbed. Which of the two categories do you belong to, reader? Are you a true lover of Bordeaux or a connoisseur of burgundy? What is it that you like about wine? Is it the knowledge that surrounds it or the pleasure it affords? Is it the prestige of a label or the authenticity of its origin? What do all these categories really stand for? The mythology of wine is examined and deciphered in loving detail. Claude Fischler is a sociologist and researcher at France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Nicolas Offenstadt

Shot at Dawn : The Executed of the Great War And the Collective Memory (1914-1999)

Why were some soldiers tried and executed by their own military authorities during World War I? Using previously unpublished source material, the author has been able to throw light on one of the most sombre episodes of the Great War. Besides reviewing the history of the events themselves, the author also examines the struggle with the military authorities to clear the soldiers’ names, beginning in the period between the two world wars. By the 1960s, the public image of the executed soldiers had begun to change. It would culminate in the British campaign to grant them an official pardon and in the French decision to remember them a ceremony. How, he asks, did these changes come about? Nicolas Offenstadt is a graduate of the Institut des Etudes Politiques, in Paris. He holds an agrégation in history and is a member of the Thiers Foundation.