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9/28/11 What a lot of fuss, some will snigger. Maybe. But isn’t ‘making a fuss’ precisely the manner in which women have chosen to situate themselves in relation to modes of thought and the university? Vinciane Despret and Isabelle Stengers have set themselves the question.
5/27/10 A deserted subject on the philosophical field for a good age now, ‘courage’ has once again become an object of study in a collective work with a particularly widespread content and a welcome pedagogical slant
6/12/09 Over the past thirty years, consciousness has slipped out of the shadows where scientific research had left it to slumber. Data from functional cerebral imaging have marked out a way where the mind and the brain seem to intertwine and march in time with each other. However, for a significant proportion of the general public and even neuroscientists, Cartesian dualism remains alive and well.
2/16/09 Western art and philosophy have long neglected and distrusted the sense of taste and food as incapable of producing meaning. Michel Delville argues that the avant-garde has redressed this imbalance.
2/26/08 What are the relationships that humans have with animals really like? A fundamental social question to which Vinciane Despret responds in two books.
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