Antoine Garapon

Judging Well Essay on Judicial Ritual

Imagine for a moment that you assist at a trial for the first time. There is no doubt that you would be struck by the strange procedure which happens in front of you, the judicial discussions. It is true to say that before being a moral faculty, judging is firstly an event. According to the author, before there were laws, judges and courthouses, there was a ritual. This book aims to unveil all these facets, showing by example how the public gallery is there to culpabilise and inhibit the defendant, in order to make him submit to the judicial order. Can judges avoid staging trials in order to judge well ?

Janine Mossuz-Lavau, Anne de Kervasdoué

Women are Not Just Men

The changes which have come to be in the second half of the 20th century have taken women a long ways from the profile adopted by their mothers. Do all these transformations lead us to trace the portrait of a woman who has become a clone of men ? We can ask ourselves this question when we remember the arguments of feminists in the 70's employing the "egalitarian" themes of Simone de Beauvoir. More recently, some have gone so far as to announce the coming of an "androgynous" society. But what do the women and the men of this country think about all this ? How do women see themselves in relation to men ? How do they define themselves and how do they describe the men of their lives ? A very pointed realization of today's female identity. Janine Mossuz-Lavau is Director of Research at the CNRS.

Laurent Schwartz

A Mathematician Engaged in the Century

Giulia Sissa

Pleasure and Harm The Philosophy of Drugs

Boris Cyrulnik

The Enchantment of the World

In this book, Boris Cyrulnik analyses empathy, our capacity to put ourselves in the place of the other, hypnosis, the power of fascination that we have on others or that others have over us...

Roger Vigouroux

The Making of Beauty (Coll. Opus)

Michel Jouvet, Monique Gessain

An Attic Full of Dreams An Essay on Diachronic Dreaming

Commission Canberra

Eliminating Nuclear Arms

"Legally, politically and strategically nuclear arms have been reduced to a tiny number of marginal hypotheses and will soon be mere anachronisms. They have lost their justification, their reason for being. But they continue to represent a danger for humanity : they could be used by accident or by mistake due to the mistaken interpretation of another country's attitude. We must therefore do everything in opur power to eliminate them once and for all." Michel Rocard