Former contributions examined the approach to institutions and economic history that can be derived from the classical and Marxian 'surplus approach' as particularly recovered by Piero Sraffa (1951) and Pierangelo Garegnani (1960). The present paper deals with the allegation levelled against historical materialism-and consequently against the surpl...
L'ouvrage « 3 siècles de pensée économique, histoire comparative et illustrée » (chez JDH) a été écrit pour rendre hommage aux enseignements d'André Segura (enseignant chercheur à l'Université de Toulon). L'ouvrage reconstitue sous forme de synthèse les cours qu'il a donnés dans les années 80 à 2010 tout en ajoutant plusieurs références (Cartelier,...
Depuis ses traductions de jeunesse jusqu’aux dernières recherches de l’exil parisien, Walter Benjamin a reconnu dans l’œuvre poétique de Baudelaire une « clé confectionnée sans la moindre idée de la serrure où un jour elle pourrait être introduite ». Laissé en plan au moment de sa mort, le Baudelaire porte la trace de la convergence des motifs extr...
This contribution is a reflection on the way Marx thought the conditions for a higher society, namely communism, with a view to contributing to the reflection on the possibility of a theoretical construction of an alternative to capitalism. The outlines for a higher society will integrate standards of more acceptable standards of distribution assoc...
Published in Phainomenon
According to Husserl, the mathematization of the lifeworld involves reducing it, as object of knowledge, to what is measurable, as well as excluding other forms of knowledge of it. This has important implications in relation to the modern conception of rationality, and, significantly, of practical rationality. More precisely, it issues in an impove...
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This article examines the sociological question of suicide as both an individual phenomenon and an expression of forms of social suffering. It provides a characterisation of the way in which – as a result of the dissolution of traditional solidarities and the emergence of the modern figure of the individual – understanding of the meaning of individ...
Cet article se penche sur les lectures de textes de Paul Valéry par Jacques Derrida, tout en mettant en valeur l'importance de la thématique de l'Europe dans la relation du philosophe de "Marges de la philosophie" aux poète de "La Jeune parque"
An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework for defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time. The book opens with a discussion of various theoretical t...
In this article, we suggest that the notion of “aesthetic cultures of protest” can be understood as designating two broad tendencies in the contemporary field of art and politics: on the one hand, the incorporation of the protest by the art world and, on the other hand, the appropriation of aesthetic traits by social protests. To counteract the eth...
