Foreign Rights 2012 catalog

Foreign rightsights2012

Puf are launching a new series…

Given the unprecedented success enjoyed by TV series today, Puf decided to publish a series of books that decode this phenomenon using the social sciences. Written by specialists in this domain, each volume provides material to nourish reflection on the hidden mechanisms of a form of entertainment that tells us a great deal about our world, about society and about us. The goal of these books is to explain how they do this in a world that is seeking its bearings.

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■ Desperate Housewives. A Guilty Pleasure? Virginie Marcucci Professor of EnglishWisteria Lane exposed: ambiguous morals and a perfect recipe for success.

April 2012 • 128 pages • 12 e

■ The Practice. Justice Called to the Bar Nathalie Perreur PhD, Information and Communication SciencesThis book decodes the critical mechanisms of a brass-knuckles legal drama: The Practice.

April 2012 • 144 pages • 12 e

■ CSI. The Forensic ExpertsGérard Wajcman PsychoanalystAn autopsy of the world’s most-watched television series, revealing what lies beneath the surface of today’s world.

April 2012 • 144 pages • 12 e

■ 24. The Option of EvilJean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer Philosopher and jurist, researcher in internatio-nal law at McGill University, Canada.A meticulous analysis of 24 through the prism of philosophy, law and international relations.

August 2012 • 176 pages • 12 e

■ Six Feet Under. Lives without FutureTristan Garcia Writer and philosopherThe author considers Six Feet Under in its meta-physical, moral, political and fictional dimensions.

September 2012 • 168 pages • 12 e

■ Grey’s Anatomy. From Romance to Care Laurent Julllier - Professor of Cinema Barbara Laborde - Asst. Professor of Literature Grey’s Anatomy is not only a story about romanti-cally inclined surgeons: it is an invitation to care about others.

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This dictionary marks a new approach to thinking about the cinema. Films are, in themselves, a way of thinking, as Jean-Luc Godard suggests when he describes cinema as ‘thought with a form of its own, a thinking form.’

Through almost 400 stimulating entries written by more than 70 specialists from various disciplines (history, philosophy, psy-choanalysis, psychology, semiology…) the Dictionary of Cinema: Thinking Films projects the central role played by the cinema in our understanding of the world.

Antoine de Baecque, film critic and historian, is a Professor at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.

Philippe Chevallier, PhD, works at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

“One word, 400 words – this a well-constructed, well thought-out and constantly useful work that reminds us of the meaningful place held by cinema in contemporary thought.”

Le Monde des Livres

“An extremely stimulating volume”Les Inrockuptibles

“Cinema is an object, but it is above all a place of thought […].Today, that thought has its own history, and this Dictionary of Cinema, the first of its kind, gives a full account through its 400 entries which in-clude around 130 concepts, 110 critics and theoreticians, 50 ‘thinking film-makers’ and about a hundred “thinking films.”

Philosophie Magazine

“A marvel of erudition and sensitivity”Le Figaro Magazine

“This is […] an innovating book that combines academic erudition with a sense of journalistic expression; theoretical explanation with the pleasure of anecdotes; a historical and a humorous approach. […] Droll and intelligent, it is an absolute must - like one of Jean-Luc Godard’s aphorisms developed over 816 pages.”

Décision Santé

“This is […] the first time that cinematographic thinking - that which incites the love of the cinema - is presented in encyclopaedic form.”

L’ Avant Scène Cinéma

What the papers say...

The DicTionary of cinema: Thinking filmsDirected by antoine de Baecque and Philippe chevallier

On the same subject

■ The Cinema in 100 WordsYves Rousset-Rouard

April 2012 • 128 pages • 9.20 €

■ Cinematic TechniquesVincent Pinel

8th ed. up-dated April 2012 128 pages • 9.20 €

37 000 copies sold

May 2012 816 pages • 39 €

3 261 000 characters

Chinese rights already sold

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October 2011 • 360 pages • 26 €

600 000 characters + 16-page colour insert

The sPielBerg DicTionaryclément safra

From A for Abandon or A.I. Artificial Intelligence, to Z for Zoom or Zemeckis, the author analyses not only films but recurring images (circles, the sky, crowds, the sun…) and themes (the suburbs, cha-os, childhood, family, war, heroes, everyday life…); elements of drama (evil, foreignness, alcohol…); decor (mountains, nature, science, the bicycle); references (Disney, Ford, chcock, Kubrick…); actors (Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks…); technicians (Michael Kahn, Janusz Kaminski, John Williams…) and meetings (with Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson) in more than 300 entries…

Clément Safra graduated in cinema studies. Most of his work has focused on the cinema of Hollywood. He has done research on ‘Mickey Mouse, the American hero’.

myThs anD iDeology of american cinemalaurent aknin

Today, Hollywood’s film industry has fallen heir to the genres that made its fortune. But since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, and especially since 9/11, the old Cold War recipes have been rehashed into sombre and violent films where the fear of cataclysm and the cult of force are irresist-ibly enacted.

Messianism, paranoia and the quest for meaning: popular American cinema has changed its mood, now revealing a society that has lost its bearings.

Laurent Aknin is a critic and historian of the cinema. His books include Cinéma bis. 50 ans de cinéma de quartier (2007) and Le Péplum (2009).

April 2012 • 192 pages • 20 €

320 000 characters + 16-page colour insert

“The secret of this book’s success is that it is a pleasant, almost transparent read, thanks to its thematic organization and content, film by film. What the reader gets is an entertaining, illuminating, and enriching text. Concise and perceptive.”

Culture blog, France Télévisions.


■ science-fiction put to the test of 9/11■ invasion films: the Aliens are back ■ Can we still make disaster films? ■ goodbye to the moon… and to space ■ starting over: star trek and its avatar ■ Magic and the fear of the east: the post-Peplum ■ the horror of times to come ■ the hard life of a super-hero ■ heart of darkness ■ regeneration ■ A new workshop for the imagination

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“With Tintin on the screen, books on Spielberg are springing up like mushrooms, but the most stim-ulating must be the Spielberg Dictionary by Clément Safra.”

Les Cahiers du cinéma

“Clément Safra makes use of commentaries nurtured by his fine knowledge of films seen over and over again. In his own impassioned way, Safra provides us with descriptive and anecdotal texts but also takes the time to share some deeper reflections.”

La Croix


haTing Wagner maDe easyPierre-rené serna

We have very good reasons not to subscribe to Wagner: his ideology, his aesthetics, his music. This book is an antidote to 2013, a discordant note in the celebration ad nauseam of the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth.

With just a touch of partiality and a sprinkling of malice, the author presents a counter argument developed by theme, in entries arranged in alphabetical order, which the reader may dip into according to his fancy, irritation or amusement.

Pierre-René Serna is a journalist and a musicographist who contributes to various European reviews. A Spanish Parisian at heart, he also has other passions, such as architecture, horn music and bagpipes. He authored Cahier de l’Herne Berlioz (Codirection), Berlioz de B à Z (Van de Velde) and Guide de la Zarzuela (Bleu Nuit).

semioTics of Designanne Beyaert-geslin

The author studies the signification of different pieces of furniture taking a particular interest in the chair. Why is the presence of a chair different from that of a piece of sculpture? Why is the chair different from any other seat? What extra meaning does a designer bestow upon the object of design? By exploring items from these diverse viewpoints, the author reveals the designer’s constraints one by one while identifying the creative points already present in sketches of new objects.

Taken out of its familiar context which prevents us from seeing it properly, the chair recovers its signi-fication, so providing us with some precious prole-gomena to a future semiotics of design.

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myThs anD iDeology of american cinemalaurent aknin

“The secret of this book’s success is that it is a pleasant, almost transparent read, thanks to its thematic organization and content, film by film. What the reader gets is an entertaining, illuminating, and enriching text. Concise and perceptive.”

Culture blog, France Télévisions.


■ science-fiction put to the test of 9/11■ invasion films: the Aliens are back ■ Can we still make disaster films? ■ goodbye to the moon… and to space ■ starting over: star trek and its avatar ■ Magic and the fear of the east: the post-Peplum ■ the horror of times to come ■ the hard life of a super-hero ■ heart of darkness ■ regeneration ■ A new workshop for the imagination

■ sculpture and the domestic object■ the object in practice. the example of the chair■ the object in the domestic setting■ two sides of creativity

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October 2012 228 pages • 23 €

“With Tintin on the screen, books on Spielberg are springing up like mushrooms, but the most stim-ulating must be the Spielberg Dictionary by Clément Safra.”

Les Cahiers du cinéma

“Clément Safra makes use of commentaries nurtured by his fine knowledge of films seen over and over again. In his own impassioned way, Safra provides us with descriptive and anecdotal texts but also takes the time to share some deeper reflections.”

La Croix


■ After Wagner ■ All ■ Anti- semitism ■ Arioso ■ Borrowing ■

Bourgeois ■ Breviaries ■ Clutter ■ Construction ■ Development ■

Dozing off ■ Fanaticism ■ Fascina-tion ■ Father ■ Foreword ■ France ■ geyer ■ grandiloquence ■ heavi- ness ■ humour ■ hypnosis ■

Languor ■ Leitmotiv ■ Lengthiness ■ Libretti ■ Melody ■ Modernity ■ Monotony ■ nazism ■ noise ■ obscure ■ orchestra ■ Pan- germanism ■ Personal experience ■ racism ■ recitative ■ rhythm ■

song ■ swelling ■ Vegetarianism ■ Vociferations ■ Wolf ■ Words

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haTing Wagner maDe easyPierre-rené serna

We have very good reasons not to subscribe to Wagner: his ideology, his aesthetics, his music. This book is an antidote to 2013, a discordant note in the celebration ad nauseam of the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth.

With just a touch of partiality and a sprinkling of malice, the author presents a counter argument developed by theme, in entries arranged in alphabetical order, which the reader may dip into according to his fancy, irritation or amusement.

Pierre-René Serna is a journalist and a musicographist who contributes to various European reviews. A Spanish Parisian at heart, he also has other passions, such as architecture, horn music and bagpipes. He authored Cahier de l’Herne Berlioz (Codirection), Berlioz de B à Z (Van de Velde) and Guide de la Zarzuela (Bleu Nuit).

semioTics of Designanne Beyaert-geslin

The author studies the signification of different pieces of furniture taking a particular interest in the chair. Why is the presence of a chair different from that of a piece of sculpture? Why is the chair different from any other seat? What extra meaning does a designer bestow upon the object of design? By exploring items from these diverse viewpoints, the author reveals the designer’s constraints one by one while identifying the creative points already present in sketches of new objects.

Taken out of its familiar context which prevents us from seeing it properly, the chair recovers its signi-fication, so providing us with some precious prole-gomena to a future semiotics of design.

Anne Beyaert-Geslin directs the Centre de Recherches Sémiotiques in Limoges. A specialist in image and me-dia semiotics, her published works include L’image préoc-cupée (Hermès-Lavoisier, 2009) and about a hundred articles. She has edited a dozen multi- author works including Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle with A. Henault (Puf, 2004). She writes for the review Nouveaux actes sémiotiques.

■ The Art Market in 100 WordsHervé Chayette Marie-Aurore de Boisdeffre

October 2012128 pages • 9.20 €

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inDiamichel angot

This book is a History of India that reveals all the ambiguities in the concept of History when dealing with this particular civilization.

The author pays special attention to the diverse religious traditions and the representations they have engendered, providing the necessary keys to understanding a culture that is so foreign to Euro-pean minds.

Professor of Sanskrit, Michel Angot teaches at the Collège de France as well as many universities outside France. He is the author of L’Inde classique (Les Belles Lettres).

September 2012416 pages • 29 €

■ Writing the history of india■ A tropical area dominated by the monsoon ■ From the history of the region to the history of the nation■ Before the empires ■ empires and kingdoms before islamization■ the age of Muslim conquests ■ india’s religions ■ societies ■ the British conquest and the age of the empire in india ■ india invented by indians ■ Marching towards independence and separation: the indian national movement■ india and the challenges of the 20th century ■ Chronology

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sVienna anD cenTral euroPeDavid Tarot

The frontier between the Roman Empire and the ‘Barbarians’, the Danube was inevitably a unifying factor of the new Europe. On its banks, Austria became, throughout the centuries, the centre of gravity of the great Hapsburg Empire; and Vienna, its capital, one of the major centres of European culture.

A bastion of Christianity against the Ottoman threat, a place of splendour at the court of Maria-Theresa and a musical capital where the work of Schubert echoed that of Mozart and Haydn, Vienna also shel-tered the avant-gardes of the early 20th century at the time of the Secession and Klimt, when Freud and Kafka were opening up new paths of knowledge to the world.

David Tarot is a Professor of History in Bourgogne, a specialist of the Germanic world. He has often visited the countries on the banks of the Danube, working on historical, artistic and cultural themes.

April 2012384 pages • 28 €

■ the lands of the Danube; a fluvial axis and a mosaic of territories ■ the settlement of peoples, romanization and the birth of the Danube states

■ A medieval and renaissance zenith■ Between the ottoman threat and religious conflict■ From Baroque to the enlighten-ment■ Between revolution and defend-ing the establishment ■ From the emergence of nations to the aftermath of WW1■ Danubian europe in the 20th century: authoritarianism, total-itarian paroxysms and the europ-ean Union

in The same series

•russia•egypt•rome•scandinavia•sicily•Florence and tuscany•greece•the United states•naples and southern italy•germanies•Venice

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•syria, Lebanon and Jordan•turkey•From Carthage to Alexandria•south and north Korea•england

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ancienT JuDaismsimon claude mimouni

In this summa of ancient Judaism which combines political and religious history, it appears clearly that the evolution of the Jewish religion, and of the culture and the society it engendered, is not the product of an autarky. Judaism took shape in keeping with its times and evolved alongside the civilizations that created it.

This study of that ancient history is a landmark for all those who seek a deeper understanding of the roots of a Judaism that is less rigid than historiography had, until now, led us to believe.

Simon Claude Mimouni is director of studies in the religious science department of the École pratique des hautes études. He published Le christianisme, des origines à Constantin (Puf, 2006).

from rhos To russiaPierre gonneau and aleksandr lavrov

The author recounts a long history that begins around 730, when the first Rhos, Vikings, settled on the banks of Lake Ladogad. He describes how, thanks to them, this ‘Russian land’ whose centre is Kiev was established between the 10th and the 13th

century, the mutations that took place under Mon-gol domination (1237-1480) and the slow formation of an Empire centred in Moscow, that nevertheless claimed to descend from the Rus’ of Byzantium and Genghis Khan.

The Muscovy of Ivan the Terrible and the first Romanovs then took on a unique position: a great European power in the making and the conqueror of Northern Asia.

Pierre Gonneau is a Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University and director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. He has authored several books about medieval Russian culture, particularly about Sergius of Radonezh and Andrei Rublev.

Aleksandr Lavrov is a Professor at the University of Vin-cennes-Saint-Denis. Among other periods, his work has focused on the 17th and 18th centuries in Russia, more specifically on the regency of Tsarina Sophie - half-sister to Peter the Great - and on the relation between official religion, popular religion and the practice of magic.

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inDiamichel angot

■ Writing the history of india■ A tropical area dominated by the monsoon ■ From the history of the region to the history of the nation■ Before the empires ■ empires and kingdoms before islamization■ the age of Muslim conquests ■ india’s religions ■ societies ■ the British conquest and the age of the empire in india ■ india invented by indians ■ Marching towards independence and separation: the indian national movement■ india and the challenges of the 20th century ■ Chronology

Vienna anD cenTral euroPeDavid Tarot

■ the lands of the Danube; a fluvial axis and a mosaic of territories ■ the settlement of peoples, romanization and the birth of the Danube states

■ A medieval and renaissance zenith■ Between the ottoman threat and religious conflict■ From Baroque to the enlighten-ment■ Between revolution and defend-ing the establishment ■ From the emergence of nations to the aftermath of WW1■ Danubian europe in the 20th century: authoritarianism, total-itarian paroxysms and the europ-ean Union

in The same series

•russia•egypt•rome•scandinavia•sicily•Florence and tuscany•greece•the United states•naples and southern italy•germanies•Venice

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•syria, Lebanon and Jordan•turkey•From Carthage to Alexandria•south and north Korea•england

■ opening to sacerdotal Judaism■ Prolegomena■ introductions■ Judaism in Palestine■ Judaism in Diaspora■ introduction to rabbinic Judaism■ general Bibliography ■ Chronology■ Maps

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May 2012 964 pages • 49 €

ancienT JuDaismsimon claude mimouni

In this summa of ancient Judaism which combines political and religious history, it appears clearly that the evolution of the Jewish religion, and of the culture and the society it engendered, is not the product of an autarky. Judaism took shape in keeping with its times and evolved alongside the civilizations that created it.

This study of that ancient history is a landmark for all those who seek a deeper understanding of the roots of a Judaism that is less rigid than historiography had, until now, led us to believe.

Simon Claude Mimouni is director of studies in the religious science department of the École pratique des hautes études. He published Le christianisme, des origines à Constantin (Puf, 2006).

“It is impossible to convey how great a contribution such a book makes. It is a goldmine, from which readers will extract the nuggets that interest them in particular.”

Le Monde de la Bible


■ sources and Bibliography

■ the Factsrussia of Kiev: the age of origins (730-980) - russia of Kiev: expansion (980-1246) - russia of novgorod: prin-cipality or city-state? - russia of the north-east: the beginnings of Muscovy between Mongol domination and Lith-uanian expansion (1246-1533) - Late russian empire: formation, expansion and crisis (1533-1613) - russia of the first romanovs: crises and conquests (1613-1689)

■ Problemsrussia of Kiev: cohesion and diversity - rural economy - towns and trades - Muscovite society and the dawn of modern times - the time and the terri-tories of the Church - Cultural heritage

■ Conclusion

■ Chronology

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May 2012 690 pages • 49 €

from rhos To russiaPierre gonneau and aleksandr lavrov

The author recounts a long history that begins around 730, when the first Rhos, Vikings, settled on the banks of Lake Ladogad. He describes how, thanks to them, this ‘Russian land’ whose centre is Kiev was established between the 10th and the 13th

century, the mutations that took place under Mon-gol domination (1237-1480) and the slow formation of an Empire centred in Moscow, that nevertheless claimed to descend from the Rus’ of Byzantium and Genghis Khan.

The Muscovy of Ivan the Terrible and the first Romanovs then took on a unique position: a great European power in the making and the conqueror of Northern Asia.

Pierre Gonneau is a Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University and director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. He has authored several books about medieval Russian culture, particularly about Sergius of Radonezh and Andrei Rublev.

Aleksandr Lavrov is a Professor at the University of Vin-cennes-Saint-Denis. Among other periods, his work has focused on the 17th and 18th centuries in Russia, more specifically on the regency of Tsarina Sophie - half-sister to Peter the Great - and on the relation between official religion, popular religion and the practice of magic.

■ A History of JudaismÉric Smilevitch

February 2012 128 pages • 9.20 €

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hisTory of ancienT romeyann le Bohec

Blending a chronological approach and thematic questions, Yann Le Bohec exposes a panorama of what we know about the history of Rome. In this way, he offers an enlightening introduction to the Roman world.

Yann Le Bohec is Professor Emeritus at Paris–Sorbonne University.

■ origins■ the republic■ early empire: history■ early empire: geography■ early empire: Law■ early empire: Material life■ early empire: intellectual life■ From the 3rd century to the Later empire■ the end of rome

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September 2012128 pages • 9.20 €

ancienT greece in 100 WorDsalain Billault

By providing the definitions of 100 words, this book proposes just as many ways to discover an exceptional historical period, shedding new light on what we know today about Ancient Greece.

Alain Billault is a Professor at Paris– Sorbonne University.

March 2012128 pages • 9.20 €

“In clear, flowing style, [Alain Billault] opens 100 gates to dis-covery... we can confirm the in-tuitions we had formed without having any exact information to guide us through that heritage.”

Nouvelle revue d’histoire


The Olympic Games are one of the great worldwide spectacles. There, our gaze alights upon the Gods of the sta-dium performing great feats. We also observe the geopolitical and economic conditions of the Games, their technical progress, as well as the incumbent trickery, corruption and doping.

Taken together, the 100 stories in this book write the history of the Olympics.

Mustapha Kessous is a journalist with Le Monde.

100 sTories of The olymPicsmustapha kessous

May 2012128 pages • 9.20 €

“With lively pen, Mustapha Kessous recounts 47 modern Olympiads in a compendium of anecdotes […]… There are as many sports perform- ances and geopolitical shocks as there are outstanding examples of technical progress, or episodes in the fight for women’s emancipation.”

Le Monde des Livres



conVerTing muslims • sPAin, 1491-1609isabelle Poutrin By giving the floor to the various characters in this story – Moors, high-ranking lords, inquisitors, theologians and councillors to the King, this book sheds new light on an episode that was agonizing for Muslims, tragic for Spain, and a key moment in relations between the Church and non-Christians. Examined today, this episode invites us to reflect on the use of constraint in matters of faith.

Isabelle Poutrin is an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Est. Before turning her attentions to the history of religious minorities and conversion policies, she wrote books about women in religion and in politics, notably with Marie-Karine Schaub: Femmes et pouvoir politique. Les princesses d’Europe, XVe-XVIIIe siècle (Bréal, 2007).

The rePuBlic or The moDern PrinceBlandine kriegel

At a time when peoples all over the world are turning towards the democratic republic – and as Europe hesitates to build a common one – what do we really know about the history of the European republic?

This book tells the original, little known history of the modern republic, born of the unexpected encounter between two traditions: those of the republic of the city, and those of modern political law of the State, which permitted the revolt of the Netherlands to triumph over Philippe II’s imperial despotism.

Is the modern republic a European idea? Or is it simply a case of using past lessons to pave the way to the future?

Blandine Kriegel, philosopher, Emeritus Professor, played a pioneering role in the redeployment of political philosophy by revitalizing the notion of Rule of Law, which earned her international renown. Her work explores philosophy and political history through the evolution of the State and concepts of political law in the ancient and modern republic. Some of her work is translated (into English, Chinese, etc.) and is more often discussed abroad than in France today, especially in the United States.

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hisTory of ancienT romeyann le Bohec

■ origins■ the republic■ early empire: history■ early empire: geography■ early empire: Law■ early empire: Material life■ early empire: intellectual life■ From the 3rd century to the Later empire■ the end of rome

ancienT greece in 100 WorDsalain Billault

“In clear, flowing style, [Alain Billault] opens 100 gates to dis-covery... we can confirm the in-tuitions we had formed without having any exact information to guide us through that heritage.”

Nouvelle revue d’histoire


“With lively pen, Mustapha Kessous recounts 47 modern Olympiads in a compendium of anecdotes […]… There are as many sports perform- ances and geopolitical shocks as there are outstanding examples of technical progress, or episodes in the fight for women’s emancipation.”

Le Monde des Livres


“The thinking is complex, but the style limpid and the logic extremely appealing. This analysis is part of a system that is always coherent.” Nouvelle revue d’histoire

“An enlightening and useful reflection at a time when nations are supporting the democratic republic and Europe is seeking its identity.” Actualité juive

“Blandine Kriegel’s book is an important one which, in many respects, chimes in with today’s ideological and political mood.” Le Point

“With her idea of the emergence of the modern republic at the Renaissance, (the philosopher) casts new light on the debates about European construction.” Le Figaro

“A passionate study on the birth of the modern State” Royaliste


■ the Conversions (1491-1526)granada won back for Christthe anafins of Archbishop Cisneros Blood, holy water and tears Baptisms under force, yet valid‘By threat and terror’

■ the time of Doubt (1526-1609)time to eradicate islamVoices raised in criticismtheologians and infidelsthe urgent need for a solutionthe punishment of the obstinate

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April 2012 372 pages • 29.50 €

conVerTing muslims • sPAin, 1491-1609isabelle Poutrin By giving the floor to the various characters in this story – Moors, high-ranking lords, inquisitors, theologians and councillors to the King, this book sheds new light on an episode that was agonizing for Muslims, tragic for Spain, and a key moment in relations between the Church and non-Christians. Examined today, this episode invites us to reflect on the use of constraint in matters of faith.

Isabelle Poutrin is an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Est. Before turning her attentions to the history of religious minorities and conversion policies, she wrote books about women in religion and in politics, notably with Marie-Karine Schaub: Femmes et pouvoir politique. Les princesses d’Europe, XVe-XVIIIe siècle (Bréal, 2007).

April 2012 372 pages • 29.50 €

The rePuBlic or The moDern PrinceBlandine kriegel

introduction: republic of the City, republic of the state.

■ the historical ContextBefore the warthe war of occupation and liberationWilliam of orange or the modern Prince - european policy

■ Men and their WorksMen - hubert Languet (1518-1581) Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623) François hotman (1524-1594) François de La noue (1531-1591) Philippe de Marnix de sainte- Aldegonde (1538-1598) - their Works Jean Bodin and the doctrine of sovereignty - théodore de Bèze: Du droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets - François hotman and the doctrine of the nation - Declarations of inde-pendence by the Dutch republic William of orange’s defence

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sAt a time when peoples all over the world are turning towards the democratic republic – and as Europe hesitates to build a common one – what do we really know about the history of the European republic?

This book tells the original, little known history of the modern republic, born of the unexpected encounter between two traditions: those of the republic of the city, and those of modern political law of the State, which permitted the revolt of the Netherlands to triumph over Philippe II’s imperial despotism.

Is the modern republic a European idea? Or is it simply a case of using past lessons to pave the way to the future?

Blandine Kriegel, philosopher, Emeritus Professor, played a pioneering role in the redeployment of political philosophy by revitalizing the notion of Rule of Law, which earned her international renown. Her work explores philosophy and political history through the evolution of the State and concepts of political law in the ancient and modern republic. Some of her work is translated (into English, Chinese, etc.) and is more often discussed abroad than in France today, especially in the United States.

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einsTein anD The TrageDy of The 20th cenTuryanti-semitism, the holocaust, Zionism

simon Veille

Einstein was not just a physician of genius; he also participated in the events of his century.

A man of influence who enjoyed great popul-arity, Einstein never sought power for himself: he unhesitatingly refused the presidency of the young State of Israel. This rare lack of personal advancement, the force of his vision, the ethi-cal dimension of his commitment and especially his astonishingly accurate intuitions and political judgments have bestowed upon him something of the aura of a prophet.

Based on previously unpublished documents, the Einstein archives of Jerusalem in particular, this book reveals the personality of the genius as never before.

Simon Veille is a journalist and a historian.

■ the uncertain JewJews by the grace of goethe - god is Jewish - From the talmud to talmey - Profession: rebel! - the olympia Academy - «sangue non é acqua»

■ the fortified Jewthe myth of assimilation - Jews from the east flock to Berlin - What is a Jew? - Blumenfeld, einstein’s mentor

■ the committed Jewthe hebrew University of Jerusalem - For love of Zion - the uprising of the Arabs of Palestine

■ the persecuted Jewthe Vehmic Court vs. einstein - the migrating bird - United against hitler! - the good samarit- an - «the land of mass-murderers» - the elite of israel

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Jean-Baptiste Pattier

The author investigates a corpus that until now has never been considered as an object of historical study: those chapters of European school books devoted to WW2. It becomes clear that States delib-erately and knowingly maintain and diffuse official truths that are often far removed from the reality of facts.

To further his investigation, the author explored more than 300 textbooks form nine countries of the European Union: Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Lithuania and Poland.

Jean-Baptiste Pattier carried out his research at the Centre d’histoire quantitative in the University of Caen.


■ the omnipresence of WW2An object of culture and memory - the politics and diplomacy of the history textbook - thinking euro-pean history - Pressures and the law of silence

■ Writing WW2Military history - naming war - resistance

■ the nazi extermination policy Concentration camps, exter-mination camps - Competition between victims - the destruct-ion of europe’s Jews

■ national historiesthe ambiguous status of Bulgaria - Dobruja, thrace, Macedonia: occupied territories? - the case of Lithuania - great Britain: defend-ing the home front - France in torment - italy in the mirror of Fascism - the Belgian tragedy

■ At the high Court of historythe Austrian malaise - the case of germany - Lithuania, Poland: in denial - the Katyn file - Allied bombing - the role of the police and the French state

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al-QaeDa in iTs oWn imagesasiem el Difraoui

Without the elaboration of a particularly complex propaganda strategy whose prime instrument is audio-visual production, al-Qaeda would probably have disappeared by now. This field study, during which the author met a large number of the prin-cipal Jihadist theoreticians, reveals the official historiography of al-Qaeda.

Beyond the needs of propaganda, Al Qaeda’s audio-visual production distorts the mythology of Islam to invent that of martyrdom, presented as Muslims’ unique path to salvation. In this way, Al Qaeda has succeeded in creating images and symbols that could continue to inspire future generations

Asiem El Difraoui, is a German-Egyptian Doctor of Poli-tical Science who graduated from Sciences Po in Paris. Author of reports and books about the Arab world, he has won many international prizes, including the ‘New York Film and Television Award’ for Le Siège de Bagdad. His latest film as co-producer, Tahrir 2011, won the UNESCO prize at the Venice International Film Festival. He is now working for a Foundation which advises the German government and parliament on foreign affairs (SWP). He has published many articles on the Arab world for international scientific reviews, and co-authored a book about the war in Iraq.

chronology of gloBaliZaTion Bernard Phan

With the aid of a detailed chronological reference, the reader is invited to reflect on the concept of globalization, whose recent designation and vague definition should not let us forget its ancient origins. From the first conquests of the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, from wars in Europe to the signing of the Lisbon treaty, this book assembles all those dates that form an indispensable preparation for a dense and complex history of globalization.

Bernard Phan is an honorary professor in the prep. classes at Lycée Henri-IV. He has also taught at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in the MRIAE dept. (Magis-tère “Relations internationales et action à l’étranger”).

2013 • 260 pages

■ the uncertain JewJews by the grace of goethe - god is Jewish - From the talmud to talmey - Profession: rebel! - the olympia Academy - «sangue non é acqua»

■ the fortified Jewthe myth of assimilation - Jews from the east flock to Berlin - What is a Jew? - Blumenfeld, einstein’s mentor

■ the committed Jewthe hebrew University of Jerusalem - For love of Zion - the uprising of the Arabs of Palestine

■ the persecuted Jewthe Vehmic Court vs. einstein - the migrating bird - United against hitler! - the good samarit- an - «the land of mass-murderers» - the elite of israel

■ the omnipresence of WW2An object of culture and memory - the politics and diplomacy of the history textbook - thinking euro-pean history - Pressures and the law of silence

■ Writing WW2Military history - naming war - resistance

■ the nazi extermination policy Concentration camps, exter-mination camps - Competition between victims - the destruct-ion of europe’s Jews

■ national historiesthe ambiguous status of Bulgaria - Dobruja, thrace, Macedonia: occupied territories? - the case of Lithuania - great Britain: defend-ing the home front - France in torment - italy in the mirror of Fascism - the Belgian tragedy

■ At the high Court of historythe Austrian malaise - the case of germany - Lithuania, Poland: in denial - the Katyn file - Allied bombing - the role of the police and the French state

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al-QaeDa in iTs oWn imagesasiem el Difraoui

■ Foreword: 11 september 2001, a media victory. the founding image.

■ introduction to the Jihad of the image – some keys to understan-ding

■ theatres and the history of the Jihad in pictures

■ Myth, martyr and cosmology – the great narrative of Al Qaeda and the international Jihad

■ Conclusion: the martyr prophecy – still a danger in spite of its failure

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Beyond the needs of propaganda, Al Qaeda’s audio-visual production distorts the mythology of Islam to invent that of martyrdom, presented as Muslims’ unique path to salvation. In this way, Al Qaeda has succeeded in creating images and symbols that could continue to inspire future generations

Asiem El Difraoui, is a German-Egyptian Doctor of Poli-tical Science who graduated from Sciences Po in Paris. Author of reports and books about the Arab world, he has won many international prizes, including the ‘New York Film and Television Award’ for Le Siège de Bagdad. His latest film as co-producer, Tahrir 2011, won the UNESCO prize at the Venice International Film Festival. He is now working for a Foundation which advises the German government and parliament on foreign affairs (SWP). He has published many articles on the Arab world for international scientific reviews, and co-authored a book about the war in Iraq.

■ europe’s hold on the world

■ european imperialism at its zenith

■ the soviet-UsA confrontation

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chronology of gloBaliZaTion Bernard Phan

With the aid of a detailed chronological reference, the reader is invited to reflect on the concept of globalization, whose recent designation and vague definition should not let us forget its ancient origins. From the first conquests of the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, from wars in Europe to the signing of the Lisbon treaty, this book assembles all those dates that form an indispensable preparation for a dense and complex history of globalization.

Bernard Phan is an honorary professor in the prep. classes at Lycée Henri-IV. He has also taught at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in the MRIAE dept. (Magis-tère “Relations internationales et action à l’étranger”).

SEE ALSO

■ Al-Quaeda in Its Own Words2nd ed. 2008Published in English (Harvard UP, 2008) German (Piper, 2006) Italian (Laterza, 2006)

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■ The New Islamic Bourgeoisie: the Turkish ModelDilek Yankaya-Péan

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January 2013

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Women anD solDiersrape and Violence in WarJosé cubero

In this ground-breaking book, the author makes a global analysis of rape and sexual aggressions in wartime, from Antiquity, when it was a ‘normal’ part of the booty, to our times, when legal recognition and condemnation have at last been obtained.

José Cubero, agrégé in history, teaches in Tarbes.


■ rape enduredthe values of chivalry and the law of war - the brutalities of war from the renaissance to Louis XiV

■ rape DenouncedCivilizing war or the illusions of the 19th century - the great War: women and the ‘barbarian’ - the occupation of rhineland and French barbarianism

■ the times of regressionthe war in spain or ideological rapethe nanking massacre and the Asia-Pacific war - the nazi paradoxWomen and ‘liberators’ - the ene-my’s women, enemy women - heads shaven at the Liberation

■ From War Crimes to Crimes against humanity torture and rape in the colonial wars - When violence becomes unaccept-able - rape and the evolution of international law

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The eThics of inTernaTional relaTionsContemporary Problemsedited by ryoa chung and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

The ethics of international relations – also refer-red to as ‘international ethics’ or ‘global ethics ‘– is a recent discipline whose aim is to explore the nature and the role of moral values, challenges and ethical dilemmas in international relations.

From immigration to health, from just wars to peace-keeping operations, from globalization to trade, humanitarian actions to the environment, not forgetting cultural diversity and world poverty, this book is a highly instructive introduction written by the most distinguished specialists for students, researchers and members of the general public who are interested in the challenges of today’s world order.

■ Preface by stanley hoffmann (harvard University)

■ introduction - r. Chung (Montreal University) and J.-B. Jeangène Vilmer (Mcgill University)

■ ethics and theory of international relations - A. Colonomos (Cnrs, Ceri sciences Po)

■ globalization - K.-g. giesen (University of Auvergne)

■ international judicial institutions - F. Mégret (Mcgill University)

■ international distributive justice - P. Van Parijs (Catholic University of Louvain / harvard University)

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■ institutional cosmopolitism s. Chauvier (Paris-sorbonne University)

■ environmental ethicsh.-s. Afeissa (Academy of Dijon)

■ intergenerational justiceA. gosseries (Catholic University of Louvain)

■ World public healthD. Weinstock (Mcgill University)

■ immigration and freedomC. straehle (University of ottawa)

■ economic globalization and business ethics - W. norman (Duke Univ.) & P.-Y. néron (Catholic University of Lille)■ humanitarian actionF. Weissman (MsF, Doctors without Borders foundation)

■ the ethics of war - J.-B. Jeangène Vilmer (Mcgill University)

■ Peace-keeping operationsM.-J. Zahar (University of Montreal) & F. gaudreault (geneva University)

■ transitional and restorative justiceC. nadeau (Montreal University) and J. saada (University of Artois)

■ Postface by Pierre hassner (Ceri sciences Po)

March 2013

■ rape enduredthe values of chivalry and the law of war - the brutalities of war from the renaissance to Louis XiV

■ rape DenouncedCivilizing war or the illusions of the 19th century - the great War: women and the ‘barbarian’ - the occupation of rhineland and French barbarianism

■ the times of regressionthe war in spain or ideological rapethe nanking massacre and the Asia-Pacific war - the nazi paradoxWomen and ‘liberators’ - the ene-my’s women, enemy women - heads shaven at the Liberation

■ From War Crimes to Crimes against humanity torture and rape in the colonial wars - When violence becomes unaccept-able - rape and the evolution of international law

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The eThics of inTernaTional relaTionsContemporary Problemsedited by ryoa chung and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer

■ Moral universalism and cultural diversity - r. Chung (Montreal University)

■ institutional cosmopolitism s. Chauvier (Paris-sorbonne University)

■ environmental ethicsh.-s. Afeissa (Academy of Dijon)

■ intergenerational justiceA. gosseries (Catholic University of Louvain)

■ World public healthD. Weinstock (Mcgill University)

■ immigration and freedomC. straehle (University of ottawa)

■ economic globalization and business ethics - W. norman (Duke Univ.) & P.-Y. néron (Catholic University of Lille)■ humanitarian actionF. Weissman (MsF, Doctors without Borders foundation)

■ the ethics of war - J.-B. Jeangène Vilmer (Mcgill University)

■ Peace-keeping operationsM.-J. Zahar (University of Montreal) & F. gaudreault (geneva University)

■ transitional and restorative justiceC. nadeau (Montreal University) and J. saada (University of Artois)

■ Postface by Pierre hassner (Ceri sciences Po)

When can it be just to drop bombs in the name of human rights? In war – even when it is a just war – there are civilian victims. Is it better to kill than to let people die? In the name of humanitarian inter-vention, the right to intervene or the responsibility to protect, military intervention justified by huma-nitarian reasons is one of the most burning ques-tions in international relations.

This interdisciplinary book (history, law, ethics and political science) is the most exhaustive ever published in France on this subject. Citing many examples, from punitive war in Ancient China to the NATO intervention in Libya, the author develops a realistic theory about intervention by taking five criteria from the doctrine of just war: just cause, competent authority, right intention, last resort and proportionality.

Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, philosopher and lawyer, is a researcher of international law at McGill University (Canada). Author of Réparer l’irréparable (Puf, 2009) and Pas de paix sans justice? (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011), he lectures on the theory of international relations, the ethics and laws of war at the Department of War Studies, King’s College in London. In 2012, he won the Debouzy ‘legal ideas agitator’ prize for this book.

War in The name of humaniTy Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer


■ history. genealogy of practice and doctrine

■ terminology. the choice of words

■ Law. From illegality to legitimacy

■ humanity imagined. Far-off suffering, medias and intervention

■ Criteria. Pertinence of a just war

■ Competent authority. Who should intervene?

■ Just cause. Why intervene?

■ right intention. What motive to intervene?

■ Last resort. When to intervene?

■ Proportionality. how to intervene?

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Italian and Spanish rights already sold

This aim of this book is to retrace the history of Italian Jews under fascism and even more important-ly, to answer questions on the nature and function of State anti-Semitism in the context of a totali- tarian regime.

By designating Jews as the enemy within, Musso-lini hoped to create a new man, an essential am-bition of fascist totalitarianism. The exclusion of Jews was seen as the mechanism that would allow a regime with a certain fascination for National- Socialist Germany - and one that had been in power for more than fifteen years - to find new dynamism.

■ the anti-Jewish state of emergency

■ how the decision was made

■ state anti-semitism

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■ Le nazisme et l’AntiquitéJohann Chapoutot3rd ed. 2012 English, German, Greek and Spanish rights already sold

Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis and member of the Institut universitaire de France. A specialist of contemporary Italy, her research has focused on fascism, anti-Semitism and various aspects of political vio-lence. Among the works she has edited or co-edited: L’homme nouveau dans l’Europe fasciste (1922-1945) (Fayard, 2004); Antisémythes. L’image des juifs entre culture et politique, 1938-1939 (Nouveau Monde, 2005), Storia della Shoah in Italia (UTET, 2010).

“A rich book that has the merit of exposing all the necessary complexity of a debate at the crossroads of ethics, law and the theory of international relations.”

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insiDe arms Traffickingfrom the Balkans to the suburbsJean-charles antoine Covering conflicts of geopolitical interests, inter-ventions by the major powers (the United States in particular), the role of mafias (especially Albanian, Italian and Turkish) and African or South Ameri-can guerrillas, this book presents a complete and well-documented panorama of gunrunning from the Central and Eastern European countries and the Balkans, a trade which is a threat to States and the security of Europe’s populations.

Jean-Charles Antoine, Doctor of Geopolitics at the Insti-tut français de géopolitique (University of Vincennes-Saint Denis), specializes in the global trafficking of small arms and light weapons, the emergence of organized crime and the Black Sea region.

May 2012288 pages • 22 €

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■ Monumental military arsenals■ Armed conflicts for newly independent states■ the emergence of organized crime■ An expansion of networks covering the european continent ■ the european Union’s failings and weak points■ the true stakes of gunrunning in european suburbs■ the globalization of arms trafficking■ the cases of Columbia and French guiana■ the intervention of the major world political powers ■ Conflicts with multiple and tangled geopolitical parameters

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Pascal Gauchon

Ancien élève de l’ENS et agrégé d’histoire, Pascal Gauchon enseigne en classes prépa-ratoires ECS à Ipésup. Il a déjà publié de nombreux ouvrages sur la France et sur la géopolitique, en particulier Le modèle français, PUF, « Que sais-je ? » et le Dictionnaire de géopolitique et de géoéconomie, PUF, « Major ».

La première étude synthétique de la géo-politique française.

Une large vision qui associe géographie, histoire, économie, diplomatie, stratégie militaire et sociologie.

Un tableau complet sur les fondements, les manifestations, les acteurs et les hori-zons de la puissance française ainsi que sur les contraintes qui pèsent sur elle.

De nombreuses cartes qui permettent de visualiser les phénomènes analysés.

Un ouvrage très structuré qui permettra aux étudiants d’apprendre et de retenir, et au grand public de se faire une idée précise et claire de la puissance française aujourd’hui.

Plaidoyer pour la puissanceIl n’existait pas de livre intitulé tout sim-plement Géopolitique de la France qui soit consacré exclusivement à ce sujet, alors que les titres équivalents ne manquent pas pour les États-Unis, la Chine, la Russie, le Brésil, l’Inde, le Mexique, le Royaume-Uni, l’Espagne, l’Italie, la Pologne, Israël – et la liste n’est pas exhaustive !

Pourtant le sujet est riche. Grande puis-sance moyenne, la France cherche ce que peut être la stratégie d’une nation de l’entre-deux, à mi-chemin entre grandeur et déclin. Géopolitique gaullienne du Verbe et du Geste ? Géopolitique mitterrandienne de la sublimation au sein de la construction européenne ? Géopolitique du pré carré que ses adver-saires assimilent à un renoncement ? Géopolitique de la morale et de l’autre qui, à force de rejet de la Realpolitik, finit par servir la géopolitique des autres ? Toutes les options sont ouvertes et analysées dans l’ouvrage.

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les chemins de la puissanceVictime de son succès, le Brésil fait l’objet de nombreux clichés, pour la plupart sympathiques ou souriants. Ce livre ne cherche ni à les corriger ni à en faire l’inventaire. Il présente une vision renouvelée de la réalité profonde du pays à partir de l’évolution de sa place dans le monde. Nation emblématique du « Nouveau Monde », mais aussi pays particulièrement sensible à la culture européenne.

Terre coloniale devenue indépendante, mais sans guerre de libération. Pays tropical et métis qui a attendu le siècle dernier pour découvrir et manifester son identité profonde. À chaque période, le Brésil a fourni le reflet de la réalité du monde.

Yves Gervaise

Agrégé de géographie, Yves Gervaise a longtemps été professeur en classes prépa-ratoires à Rennes. Il partage maintenant sa vie entre sa Bretagne natale et le Brésil où il se rend régulièrement depuis l’âge de vingt ans, où il s’est installé et où il enseigne (Université d’Ouro Preto).

Géopolitiquedu Brésil

Les racines géographiques, historiques et culturelles de l’identité brésilienne par un auteur qui connaît de l’intérieur ce pays.

La nouvelle puissance brésilienne : ses fondements, ses manifestations, ses orien-tations, ses limites aussi.

Les ambitions du pays émergent le plus proche des États-Unis et ses relations ambiguës avec son puissant voisin, mais aussi avec l’Europe, les pays tropicaux et les autres émergents.

De nombreuses cartes pour fixer les diffé-rents horizons de la puissance brésilienne.

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Florian LouisAgrégé de géographie, Yves Gervaise a longtemps été professeur en classes prépa-ratoires à Rennes. Il partage maintenant sa vie entre sa Bretagne natale et le Brésil.

Flrédéric PichonAgrégé de géographie, Yves Gervaise a longtemps été professeur en classes prépa-ratoires à Rennes.

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Géopolitiquedes pays émergents

Ils changent le mondeNouveaux trésoriers du monde, les pays émergents prêtent de l’argent aux vieilles puissances dont le déclin paraît irrémé-diable, rachètent des terres en Afrique, s’unissent au gré de leurs intérêts, renforcent leurs armées, investissent dans la recherche, font croître des firmes mondiales… Aspirant à détenir tous les attributs de la puissance, ils semblent en mesure de renverser un monde dans lequel les rênes du pouvoir échappe-raient aux Occidentaux.

Ce livre, qui ne fait pas le portrait d’une sélection de pays émergents mais étudie les dynamiques de groupe, fait le point sur la notion d’émergence et s’interroge sur les armes qu’utilisent les nouvelles puissances pour bâtir un monde nouveau, dégagé de l’hégémonie occidentale, mais aussi sur les fragilités de leur stratégie renversante…

Les puissances émergentes nous prépa-rent-elles un monde meilleur ? Pire ? En tout cas, elles changent le monde.

Sylvia Delannoy

Agrégée d’histoire, Sylvia Delannoy a long-temps enseigné dans le secondaire et en classes préparatoires en France. Elle est actuellement professeur au lycée français de Singapour, au cœur de l’émergence.

La première définition précise et raisonnée d’une notion « à la mode » qui reste trop souvent floue.

Une classification-clarification de la liste des émergents afin d’éviter qu’elle devienne un « fourre-tout ».

L’analyse équilibrée de leur puissance, mais aussi de leurs limites et de leurs pers-pectives d’avenir.

De nombreuses de cartes décrivant le nou-vel ordre mondial que les pays émergents font naître.

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Qui tient la mer tient le mondeNouveaux trésoriers du monde, les pays émergents prêtent de l’argent aux vieilles puissances dont le déclin paraît irrémé-diable, rachètent des terres en Afrique, s’unissent au gré de leurs intérêts, renforcent leurs armées, investissent dans la recherche, font croître des firmes mondiales… Aspirant à détenir tous les attributs de la puissance, ils semblent en mesure de renverser un monde dans lequel les rênes du pouvoir échappe-raient aux Occidentaux.

Ce livre, qui ne fait pas le portrait d’une sélection de pays émergents mais étudie les dynamiques de groupe, fait le point sur la notion d’émergence et s’interroge sur les armes qu’utilisent les nouvelles puissances pour bâtir un monde nouveau, dégagé de l’hégémonie occidentale, mais aussi sur les fragilités de leur stratégie renversante…

Les puissances émergentes nous prépa-rent-elles un monde meilleur ? Pire ?

Pierre Royer

Agrégée d’histoire, Sylvia Delannoy a long-temps enseigné dans le secondaire et en classes préparatoires en France. Elle est actuellement professeur au lycée français de Singapour, au cœur de l’émergence.

La première définition précise et raisonnée d’une notion « à la mode » qui reste trop souvent floue.

Une classification-clarification de la liste des émergents afin d’éviter qu’elle devienne un « fourre-tout ».

L’analyse équilibrée de leur puissance, mais aussi de leurs limites et de leurs pers-pectives d’avenir.

De nombreuses de cartes décrivant le nou-vel ordre mondial que les pays émergents font naître.

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le rêve de l’unité briséeVictime de son succès, le Brésil fait l’objet de nombreux clichés, pour la plupart sympathiques ou souriants. Ce livre ne cherche ni à les corriger ni à en faire l’inventaire. Il présente une vision renouvelée de la réalité profonde du pays à partir de l’évolution de sa place dans le monde. Nation emblématique du « Nouveau Monde », mais aussi pays particulièrement sensible à la culture européenne.


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Agrégé de géographie, Yves Gervaise a longtemps été professeur en classes prépa-ratoires à Rennes. Il partage maintenant sa vie entre sa Bretagne natale et le Brésil où il se rend régulièrement depuis l’âge de vingt ans, où il s’est installé et où il enseigne (Université d’Ouro Preto).

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A new and enlightening reading of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict through the prism of energy resources, a vital stake for Israel.

David Amsellem is a specialist of the energy question in the Near and Middle East. He has also carried out research on the Jerusalem tramway, from a political and strategic viewpoint.

The energy Warthe hidden side of the israeli-Palestinian Conflict

David amsellem

■ energy: israel’s anxiety

■ supplies: israel’s strategic moves

■ the ‘treasure’ of the sea

■ the curse of electricity

■ in Palestine

■ israel’s weak point?

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This book received Le Monde prize

for academic research

The Aral Sea, that huge lake in Central Asia on the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, has shrunk dramatically because of an excessive irri-gation policy to develop the monoculture of cotton. This well-documented book has no use for the oft-repeated banalities about the tragedy. An in-depth field investigation, it explains how the hydro-economic models of international cooper-ation have generated an authentic water war by increasing tensions between States.

It also recounts how international experts, chan-nelled by local administrations and their own agendas, base their conclusions on a representa-tion that omits crucial elements of reality (cotton smuggling, misappropriation of public funds, playing on technical standards).

Doctor of Sociology and State engineer (corps of Bridges, Water and Forests), Raphaël Jozan is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire techniques, territoires et sociétés (LATTS). He works for several development agencies in France and abroad. .

The aral sea oVerfloW A sociological study of the Water War

raphaël Jozan

■ Preaching about water shortage

■ From the introduction of cotton to an imaginary image of hydrau-lics (1850-1916)

■ Cotton, hydraulics and soviet arithmetic (1917-1990)

■ the inertia of cotton cultivation in Ferghana Valley (1991-2010)

■ in the experts’ laboratories

■ the political economy of preaching water shortage

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The inTangiBle forcehow to transform the economy

laurent habib

A lively, informative and optimistic text which explains the mechanisms of a new economic model based on each firm’s intangible assets - i.e. its ideas, brand names, knowledge, culture and talents – and how firms can best draw from these assets new sources of inspiration and growth.

■ A new era

■ the crisis of excessive materiality

■ six generations of means of creat-ing value

■ Better exploitation of intangible assets in the firm

■ Paths towards the economy of intangible assets

■ in favour of new public policy

■ towards a virtuous capitalism

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in Praise of DeBT nathalie sarthou-lajus The ‘debt crisis’ is not only a financial and economic one. It is also a symptom of an identity crisis, of contem-porary individuals and their vain desire for radical independence which constitutes the neoliberal system. But this critical stage of the identity crisis also presents an opportunity: the chance to elaborate ethics and policy on the borderline between public and private; an understanding of debt that would permit us to bear its weight more lightly.

■ introduction: the real meaning of debt

■ exchange, gift and debt

■ the founding experience of debt

■ the utopia of a debt-free society

■ Conclusion: the tragedy of debt and the joy of becoming other

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January 201272 pages • 6.50 €

Nathalie Sarthou-Lajus graduated in philosophy. She has been assistant editor-in-chief of the review Études since 2007. She authored L’Éthique de la dette (Puf, 1997).

September 2012336 pages • 18 €

can caPiTalism Be goVerneD?isabelle ferreras As globalized capitalism inflicts a substantial loss of sov-ereignty on States, and as workers learn the hard lesson of the capitalism/democracy paradox, the time is right to begin thinking the conditions of legitimate sovereignty in the capitalist firm, capitalism’s flagship institution. This book provides the necessary historical and theoretical circuit, and ideas for getting out of this situation.

■ introduction. how are employees faring?

■ What is a firm?

■ Proposition: from political bicameralism to economic bicameralism

■ Critical history: from work management to firm government

■ Conclusion: the urgent need for a kick-start… institutional innovation

■ Annexe: 24 objections to economic bicame-ralism. some elements of a solution

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CEO of Euro RSCG C&O and general manager of Havas in France, Professor at Panthéon Sorbonne University Laurent Habib, is an expert in brands and firms. In 2010, Puf published his La communication transforma-tive (translated into Spanish).

“A concise and well-argumented defence”

Les Echos


‘Zombies are all around us, in films, on TV, in the streets, at the bookshop. Both terrifying and gro-tesque, they appear to be no more than the latest kitsch trend, entertainment. Yet under their com-plicated make-up hides one of the most symptom-atic figures of contemporary culture and society.

Fear of epidemics or phantasms about catas-trophes, modern alienation or fascination for vio-lence: the zombie, and the apocalyptic world it is capable of creating, speak to us firstly and inti- mately of ourselves and a certain desire to break away from the West.

Sociologist and art historian, Maxime Coulombe is a Pro-fessor of the History of Contemporary Art at Laval Uni-versity in Quebec. His research focuses on contemporary imaginary figures, particularly on what they can tell us about the state of subjectivity in advanced modernity. His publications include: Imaginer le posthumain: sociologie de l’art et archéologie d’un vertige (Presses de l’Univer-sité Laval, 2009) and Le monde sans fin des jeux vidéo, (Puf, 2010).

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■ A new era

■ the crisis of excessive materiality

■ six generations of means of creat-ing value

■ Better exploitation of intangible assets in the firm

■ Paths towards the economy of intangible assets

■ in favour of new public policy

■ towards a virtuous capitalism

■ introduction: the real meaning of debt

■ exchange, gift and debt

■ the founding experience of debt

■ the utopia of a debt-free society

■ Conclusion: the tragedy of debt and the joy of becoming other

■ introduction. how are employees faring?

■ What is a firm?

■ Proposition: from political bicameralism to economic bicameralism

■ Critical history: from work management to firm government

■ Conclusion: the urgent need for a kick-start… institutional innovation

■ Annexe: 24 objections to economic bicame-ralism. some elements of a solution

“A concise and well-argumented defence”

Les Echos



‘Zombies are all around us, in films, on TV, in the streets, at the bookshop. Both terrifying and gro-tesque, they appear to be no more than the latest kitsch trend, entertainment. Yet under their com-plicated make-up hides one of the most symptom-atic figures of contemporary culture and society.

Fear of epidemics or phantasms about catas-trophes, modern alienation or fascination for vio-lence: the zombie, and the apocalyptic world it is capable of creating, speak to us firstly and inti- mately of ourselves and a certain desire to break away from the West.

Sociologist and art historian, Maxime Coulombe is a Pro-fessor of the History of Contemporary Art at Laval Uni-versity in Quebec. His research focuses on contemporary imaginary figures, particularly on what they can tell us about the state of subjectivity in advanced modernity. His publications include: Imaginer le posthumain: sociologie de l’art et archéologie d’un vertige (Presses de l’Univer-sité Laval, 2009) and Le monde sans fin des jeux vidéo, (Puf, 2010).

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■ the motif

■ the double

■ the return of the repressed

■ the apocalypse

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‘Why philosophize? Because of desire, because there is absence in presence, death in the living; and because of our power, still becoming; because of alienation, the loss of what we believed to be vested rights and the gap between deed and doing, the spoken word and speaking; and lastly because we cannot avoid attesting the existence of a lack with our words. The real question is, how could we not philosophize? ’

Written with rare pedagogical clarity and philoso-phical depth, this introductory philosophy course given by Lyotard in 1964 is published here for the first time.

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the great figures of French philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. Among his most famous books: La phénoménologie (Puf, 1954), Discours, Figure (Klincksieck, 1971), La condition postmoderne (Minuit, 1979) and Le différend (Minuit, 1983).

Why PhilosoPhiZe? Jean-françois lyotard

■ Why desire?

■ Philosophy and origin

■ About philosophical expression

■ Philosophy and action

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form anD oBJecTA treatise on thingsTristan garcia

This treatise is an original thought adventure, an odyssey through theory for the beginning of our era: a search for that which has become, for us today, a ‘thing’.

What is a thing? Breaking down the philosophi-cal barriers that once closed in the field of things, this Treatise gives equal consideration to a table, a sharpened flint stone, a human, the word ‘truth’ and five seconds. Here are the things which are, in this day and age, ours: a chaos of the real, of the possible, of matter, and of words and ideas.

Faced with this new landscape, the present Treatise does not propose a new reflection on our access to things, but rather suggests we pick up the reins and embark on an entirely new theory-adventure. Tristan Garcia’s project is to show it is possible to define things in such a way that everything may be something. For the condition of thinking together is that the world of things be shared; not a cosmos organized around principles and substances, but a world where no thing is more thing than another, where everything is equal.

Philosopher, novelist, pop culture enthusiast, inveterate connoisseur of American TV series (see his 2012 essay, pub-lished by Puf, on ‘Six Feet Under’), and impassioned sports fan, Tristan Garcia is a graduate of the Ecole Normale. He taught at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne. He is the author of an essay, Nous, animaux et humains (Bourin, 2010) and two novels published by Gallimard.

■ Book 1: Formallythingthing and Worldto be and to understand

■ Book 2: objectivelyUniverse - objects, eventstime - Living - Animals - humanson representation - the Artisticthe Cultural - historythe economy of objectsValues - Classesgenres - the stages of LifeDeath - CoDA

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“The ‘treatise of things’ that Tristan Garcia has published as Forme et objet is without a doubt one of the most original works published on the matter for a long time.”

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“This is a magnificent, systematic, and well-balanced book, constructed like a cathedral.”

Marianne

“In a dizzying philosophical treatise entitled Forme et objet, Tristan Garcia reveals himself to be a great metaphysician, confronting the mystery of things.”

Les Inrockuptibles


“ As always with Rancière, we are struck by the density of his prose, his choice of words, his rea-soning, which is never watered down. While others write a great deal to say very little, he says a great deal in very few words. He even goes as far as to permit the reader to conclude his rationale - which is a very fine quality in a philosopher. ”

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With these two texts initially published on the initiative of the George Pompidou centre but now out of print, Jacques Rancière continues his ingenious reflection on the representational power of artistic images, in film and in painting. How does art succeed in portraying events that traverse an entire epoch?

Jacques Rancière is one of the major figures of contem-porary thinking in France whose work has been trans-lated all over the world. Among his most recent titles: Les Ecarts du cinéma (La Fabrique, 2011); Aisthesis (Galilée, 2011); Béla Tarr, le temps d’après (Capricci, 2011).

figures of hisToryJacques rancière

■ the Unforgettable

in front of the camera

on the other side of the window

the threshold of the visible

Confronting annihilation

■ Meanings and Figures of history

the four meanings of history

history and representation. three poetics of modernity

three ways of painting history

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■ Book 1: Formallythingthing and Worldto be and to understand

■ Book 2: objectivelyUniverse - objects, eventstime - Living - Animals - humanson representation - the Artisticthe Cultural - historythe economy of objectsValues - Classesgenres - the stages of LifeDeath - CoDA

“The ‘treatise of things’ that Tristan Garcia has published as Forme et objet is without a doubt one of the most original works published on the matter for a long time.”

Le Monde des Livres

“This is a magnificent, systematic, and well-balanced book, constructed like a cathedral.”

Marianne

“In a dizzying philosophical treatise entitled Forme et objet, Tristan Garcia reveals himself to be a great metaphysician, confronting the mystery of things.”

Les Inrockuptibles


■ the Unforgettable

in front of the camera

on the other side of the window

the threshold of the visible

Confronting annihilation

■ Meanings and Figures of history

the four meanings of history

history and representation. three poetics of modernity

three ways of painting history

ricoeur anD his Peers Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, CastoriadisJohann michel

Today, we are aware of the fertile dialogue between Paul Ricœur and structuralist thinkers, but gener-ally we are unaware of his position regarding the post-structuralist movement.

Should we see Ricœur’s philosophy in opposition to post-structuralism in France, or should we, on the contrary, show that it is a unique variation? After studying the question, Johann Michel defends the second option.

Johann Michel is a University Professor (Institut Uni-versitaire de France, University of Poitiers), attached to the EHESS (IMM). Member of the scientific council of the Fonds Ricœur, he also co-directs the international review, Ricœur Studies (Pittsburgh University). Among other books, he authored Paul Ricœur. Une philosophie de l’agir humain (Cerf, ‘Passages’, 2006), Gouverner les mémoires (Puf, 2010), and Sociologie du soi (PUR, ‘Sens social’, 2012).

■ habitus, the narrative and the promise

■ the sense of unmeasure. hegelism with reserves

■ off the topic and the becoming-topic■ Caring for self and others

■ imagination and institutions

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The mosT suBlime of hysTericshegel and Lacanslavoj Žižek

“ A reprint of his first book, now out of print, Le plus su-blime des hystériques is no less than Hegel reread by Lacan. It is also Zizek, of course, revealing the naissance of his intense and invigorating oeuvre. ” Technikart


Slavoj Žižek’s masterpiece succeeds in shattering hundreds of preconceived ideas while revolution-izing our reading of Hegel.

Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. He obtained his PhD from the University of Ljubljana and became a Doctor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Vincennes. He teaches at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fé) and is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London). He has written around forty books, which have been translated all over the world and been the object of many studies and commentaries, including Marxisme et psychanalyse (see below).

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■ hegel with Lacan

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■ Žižek.Marxisme et psychanalyseRonan de Calan – Raoul Moati

Are the reflections of Slavoj Žižek more than just the sources of media frenzy? This short introductory text aims to show that Žižek’s theory on the relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis, derived from Lacan, resists simplifi-cation and defies cultural and political journalistic novelty. In so doing, it becomes clear that Žižek is a philosopher well worth reading.

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in Praise of reVengemichel erman


Revenge is generally considered to be an archaic and arbitrary reaction, recalling a time when vio-lence prevailed over law. Yet in many situations, it appears to be normal behaviour, likely to procure relief after one has been the victim of an unjustified wrong or a mark of disdain. In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche recalls that compensation or reparation constitute an immanent form of justice supported by an anthropological reality: man can-not remain a humiliated consciousness.

Is the desire for revenge purely instinctual? Or is there a ‘just’ element that we should acknowledge and understand? How can we think revenge from a moral stance?

Author and philosopher, Professor at the University of Bourgogne, Michel Erman published La cruauté. Essai sur la passion du mal (Puf, 2009). His philosophical reflection explores passions that are often obscured in civilisation and/or assigned to the darker side of human nature.

■ honour and debt

■ the anger of Julie

■ the time for vengeance

■ From resentment to settling scores

■ the role of emotions

■ Crimes and punishments

■ Pardon and pride

■ the elevation of vengeance

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The meTaPhysics of BurnouTPascal chabot

The phenomenon we call burnout is not just an individual problem that affects a few exhausted people. It holds up a mirror to dysfunctions in the relations between human beings and their material environment.

After analysing the archaeology of the concept, the author distinguishes three main types of burnout: the first, specific to professions who help others, appears to be the exhaustion of their humanism; the second, a trouble of adaptation and perfection-ism; the third a consequence of the struggle for recognition. The philosophical implications of each of these three states is identified.

Finally, burnout can also be an occasion to rethink the pact between human and technicity, and rein-terpret the notion of progress.

Pascal Chabot is a philosopher. He teaches at the IHECS (Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales in Brussels). He is the author of La philosophie de Simon-don (Vrin, 2003) Après le progrès (Puf, 2008) and Les sept stades de la philosophie (Puf, 2011, Korean rights already sold).

■ introduction Burnout and betrayal

■ What does burnout refer to?

■ What does burnout reflect?

■ What opportunities does burnout present?

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■ honour and debt

■ the anger of Julie

■ the time for vengeance

■ From resentment to settling scores

■ the role of emotions

■ Crimes and punishments

■ Pardon and pride

■ the elevation of vengeance

■ introduction Burnout and betrayal

■ What does burnout refer to?

■ What does burnout reflect?

■ What opportunities does burnout present?

ge care sTuDies

A crucial and topical question at the heart of today’s society, care is the subject of the most lively discussions involving many disciplines, from the medical world to moral philosophy and politics, taking in the human and social sciences, literature and the arts. The centre of debates between medicine and ethics, care providers and politicians, man and his environ-ment, it involves many professions (medical and beyond) and emerging problems (technical and ethical); it has metaphysical dimensions and calls for political projections.

But the theory of care also introduces a new model of human and social sciences: the abandon of strict rationalism, the integration of feminist and gender issues, post-colonial studies and reflections on vulnerability, dependence and interdependence. The domain of care is extending to more and more disciplines: philosophy, sociology, psychology as well as law, economy and political science.

Today, Puf is publishing a series of brief and succinct books (64 pages, 6€) for those who provide care and those who receive it. They bring greater understanding of the theoretical and practical implications of care, in the aim of nourishing on-going and future debates.

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■ The Risk Society and the Caring SocietyJoan Tronto October 2012

■ Become a DoctorCéline Lefève October 2012

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BelieVing anD knoWingthinking Politics, Morals and religion

raymond Boudon

Are we witnessing a ‘return to religion’? Why are Americans more religious than Europeans? Why is the ‘power of street protest’ greater in France than in Germany? Why is the trend towards oligarchy such a chronic threat to democracy? Is the notion of moral progress a valid one? Did the 1968 rebellion in France really spark off a crisis in values? Where does the authority of ‘political correction’ come from?

Sociology has developed tools and methods that permit us to answer, in a rigorous manner, these questions and many more on a multitude of political, moral and religious phenomena cited by the eight studies assem-bled in Believing and Knowing.

Raymond Boudon, Emeritus Professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University, is a sociologist. His work is a reference all over the world. He is a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, the Academia europaea and several academies abroad including the British Academy, The Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

■ Prologue. sociology and Politics

■ Do we choose what we believe?

■ explaining ordinary beliefs

■ A sense of morality

■ Does moral progress exist?

■ Faith and reason: two French visions

■ What does it mean to give power to the people?

■ the unsinkable theory of the man-machine

■ sociology as a science

■ epilogue. the schisms of sociology

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■ L’inégalité des chances Hachette, 2006

■ Effets pervers et ordre social Puf, 2nd ed. 1993 - 296 pagestranslated into English, Polish and Portuguese

■ La logique du social Hachette, 2001

■ Dictionnaire critique de la sociologie Puf, 3rd ed. 2004 - 768 pages translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese

■ La place du désordre Puf, 3rd ed. 2004 - 256 pagestranslated into English, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Russian

■ L’art de se persuader Seuil, 1992

■ Traité de sociologie Puf, 1992 - 576 pagestranslated into Italian, Portuguese and Rumanian

■ Le juste et le vraiFayard, 1995

■ Etudes sur les sociologues classiques Puf, 2 volumes, 1998 and 2000 - 304 and 352 pages

■ Le sens des valeurs Puf, 2nd ed. 2007 - 400 pages translated into Italian

■ Déclin de la morale? Déclin des valeurs? Puf, 2nd ed. 2002 - 128 pagestranslated into Italian

■ Les méthodes en sociologie Puf, 12th ed. 2002 - 128 pages translated into Arabic, English, Italian, Japanese and Russian

■ Raison, bonnes raisonsPuf, 2003 - 192 pages

■ Tocqueville aujourd’huiOdile Jabob, 2005

■ Renouveler la démocratie Odile Jabob, 2006

■ Le relativismePuf, 2008 - 128 pages translated into Italian and Portuguese

■ Essais sur la théorie générale de la rationalitéPuf, 2007 - 352 pages

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■ Prologue. sociology and Politics

■ Do we choose what we believe?

■ explaining ordinary beliefs

■ A sense of morality

■ Does moral progress exist?

■ Faith and reason: two French visions

■ What does it mean to give power to the people?

■ the unsinkable theory of the man-machine

■ sociology as a science

■ epilogue. the schisms of sociology

■ Etudes sur les sociologues classiques Puf, 2 volumes, 1998 and 2000 - 304 and 352 pages

■ Le sens des valeurs Puf, 2nd ed. 2007 - 400 pages translated into Italian

■ Déclin de la morale? Déclin des valeurs? Puf, 2nd ed. 2002 - 128 pagestranslated into Italian

■ Les méthodes en sociologie Puf, 12th ed. 2002 - 128 pages translated into Arabic, English, Italian, Japanese and Russian

■ Raison, bonnes raisonsPuf, 2003 - 192 pages

■ Tocqueville aujourd’huiOdile Jabob, 2005

■ Renouveler la démocratie Odile Jabob, 2006

■ Le relativismePuf, 2008 - 128 pages translated into Italian and Portuguese

■ Essais sur la théorie générale de la rationalitéPuf, 2007 - 352 pages

a hisTorical anD criTical DicTionary of racism

edited by Pierre-andré Taguieff

550 articles in an exhaustive inventory propose a critical examination of explanatory models of racism; drawing on sociology, social anthropology, social psychology, history, political philosophy…

This dictionary casts a historical and conceptual light on all the debates and controversies that enter into the phenomenon of racism – from everyday stigma-tization (insults) to organized massacres – hence the choice to take into account the demarcations of the phenomenon (intolerance, ethnocentrism, xenopho-bia) as well as its hard core (doctrinal constructions and biological concepts). There is also a compara-tive approach (‘Exclusion’, ‘Colour’, ‘Crime against humanity’, ‘Genocide’, ‘Ethnic cleansing’…), ana-lyses of social interaction (anti-Black, anti-White, anti-immigrant…), and entries such as ‘authoritative personality’, ‘collective identity’, ‘conspiracy theo-ries’, ‘multiculturalism’… which open up another facet of reflection.

This Dictionary of Racism is equally a Dictionary of Antiracism: the various traditions emanating from Abolitionism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-nationalism and Anti-fascism are analysed in numerous articles.

A multi-author book covering racism in all its manifestations, this dictionary is a reasoned and critical response to the anxiety and fear inspired by globalization and its mixophobia. It also helps us understand what ‘new racism’ – racism without races or any claims of inequality - can mean.

A new challenge for humanity.

Pierre-André Taguieff, is research director at the CNRS (CEVIPOF, Centre de Recherches politiques de Sciences Po, Paris)

FORTHCOMING

■ L’antisémitisme, Pierre-André Taguieff“ Que sais-je ?” series - Mars 2013 128 pages - 9.20 e

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DicTionary of fooD anD eaTingedited by Jean-Pierre Poulain

More than 230 studies, written by 162 specialists from a wide variety of linguis-tic horizons and complementary scientific domains (anthropology, sociology, medicine, history of religions, psychology, law, economy, history, geography, international health policy…) make up the menu of the Dictionary of Food and Eating.

This dictionary is the first to reveal the diversity and the richness in meaning covered by all aspects of food and eating.

Thinking about this subject naturally takes us straight to the heart of social and cultural dialectics: those of home-grown produce and globalization, of authenticity and food standardization, of the sym-bolic and the real, of animality and humanity.

But we also have to situate it, oscillating between extremes such as giving and depriving, aid and weapon, malnutrition and fattening, undisciplined thinking and industrial rationality, nutri-genetics and nutri-genomics, the herbivorous and mad cow disease, gastronomy and fast-food, the basic need and the sophisticated religious rite… in brief, from incorporation to individual identity: when we eat, we signify our belonging to a culture.

Sociologist, Jean-Pierre Poulain is a Professor at the Uni-versity Toulouse Le Mirail (Centre d’Études et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir). Puf published his Sociologie de l’obésité (2008, Portuguese rights already sold) and Socio-logies de l’alimentation (3th ed. 2011, Italian and Portuguese rights already sold).

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DaViD le BreTon

Anthropologist and sociologist, David Le Breton is a Professor at the University of Strasbourg, member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Institut des Etudes Avancées at the University of Strasbourg.

His research focuses above all on the anthropology of the body and the anthropology of adolescence. The many books he has written explore the social and cultural construction of the body, especially in the contemporary context.

Among them, Puf published: Anthropologie du corps et modernité, latest edition with update in 2011 (translated into eight languages including Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian …) while La sociologie du corps, in the ‘Que sais-je?’ series has been translated into four languages. He has also written books on the anthropology of risk and, in particular, high risk behaviour in young people or deliberate risks taken by people who practice physical activities and sports: La sociologie du risque (Puf, Que sais-je?) and Conduites à risque. Des jeux de mort au jeu de vivre (Quadrige). He also wrote a manual: L’interactionnisme symbolique and edited Dictionnaire de l’adolescence et de la jeunesse, both published by Puf.

David Le Breton’s work can be read in about fifty translations throughout the world.

■ Anthropology of the Body and ModernityPuf, 6th edition entirely updated in 2011. 13,000 cps. sold Translations: Arabic (Beirut, 1993); Argentina (Buenos-Aires, 1995); Korea (2003); Italian (Milan, 2008); Rumanian (2002); Rumanian (Mol-davia 2009); Chinese (Shanghai, 2010); Portuguese (Brazil, Petrópolis, 2011), Persian (translation on-going, Iran).

■ The Sociology of the Body‘Que sais-je?’ series, Puf, 7th ed. 2010, 27,000 cps. sold.Translations: Korean (1999); Spanish (Buenos-Aires, 2002); Brazilian (Petrópolis, 2006); Arabic (Egypt, Cairo, 2012) Persian translation on-going (Iran).

■ High-Risk Behaviour. From Death Games to Life GamesPuf, 3rd ed. revised and augmented, forthcoming Feb. 2013, 6,500 cps. soldTranslations: Portuguese (Brazil, 2009); Spanish (Argentina, 2011).

■ Symbolic InteractionismPuf, 3rd ed. revised, 2012, 4,500 cps. sold

■ The Sociology of Risk‘Que sais-Je?’ series, Puf, 1995, new edition 2012.

■ Dictionary of Childhood and Adolescence (co-authored with Daniel Marcelli), Puf, 2010.

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August 2012 336 pages • 26 €

memoirs of a Transsexualthe sleeping selfmarie edith cypris

Although transsexualism is no longer considered to be a mental illness, today’s term - transsexuality - doesn’t tell us a great deal more about this inexplicable condition. Even the word ‘condition’ is becoming obsolete as a reference to what is now seen as a human right: for men and women to change their sex. Between a pathology endured and a chosen fantasy, the gap is manifest; as wide as the gap between a burdensome affliction and an eccentric whim.

Exploring her own experience, the author merges the attitudes of academics and of transsexuals themselves, in order to achieve an unusual synthe-sis. She testifies to the torments of her teens, she whose future was to be accomplished in the oppo-site sex to that of her birth. She tries to understand how the young man she once was veered towards his inescapable destiny and into this tumultuous biography. Without the slightest self-indulgence, and with a truly original vision of gender identity problems, she asks many questions that have never been raised before. Through her reflections on the problematic of sexual identity, she challenges us to think the radical changes which could result from an abolition of gender.

Marie Edith Cypris is a medical care assistant who has worked in rest homes, hospitals and private clinics. In her spare time, she makes collages. She is a collector of vinyl records and a former disc jockey, an activity which she sees as much more than a hobby for the featherbrained: a veritable passion.

■ Preface by Christophe Dejours

■ Author’s introduction

■ Context of solitude, feeling of isolation

■ Changing sex: theories and aporia

■ relationship with the mother

■ relationship with the father

■ Leaving home for good during the teens

■ Disc jockey/night clubs

■ Prostitution, descent into hell

■ redemption/the health-carer

■ servant in Paris’s 16th district

■ Professional conversion/medical care assistant

■ Back to the stitches…

■ Meeting a first boyfriend

■ Conclusions: new transsexual challenges, ethical questions

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In the new ‘Psychoguides’ series, a practical book that guides parents in their search for a better relationship with their teenage children.

Geneviève Abrial is a psychoanalyst and a trainer.

■ What is adolescence?

■ Difficult to be a teenagerYour teenage child’s attitude to youYour attitude to your teenage child

■ how to handle your teenage childtaking stockresonancehow to act?After action

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■ Me at Last! your Active Psychoanalysis Geneviève Abrial

■ Eat and Feel Good Florence Pujol

■ Stop Fighting Against your Body Jean-Christophe Seznec

■ Mood Stability at Last! Claire Gindre, Frédéric Sorbara

■ Break Free of Stress Nicolas Rouig

October 2012288 pages • 18,50 €

The acQuisiTion of numBersmichel fayol

Thinking, counting, how do they function? Based on the results of the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, enriched by accounts of experiments conducted with children, this book invites us to rethink our way of teaching numbers.

Michel Fayol is a Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. He has written several books about the acquisi-tion and the use of written language and numbers, mainly in Puf’s ‘Apprendre’ series.

The acQuisiTion of languagemichèle kail

From the articulate production of sounds to the elaboration of speech, this book analyses how children acquire language. The author explains the subtlety and the complexity of an appren-ticeship that is uniquely human and gives advice on how to approach and find solutions for eventual language problems.

Michèle Kail is a research director at the CNRS.

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■ Preface by Christophe Dejours

■ Author’s introduction

■ Context of solitude, feeling of isolation

■ Changing sex: theories and aporia

■ relationship with the mother

■ relationship with the father

■ Leaving home for good during the teens

■ Disc jockey/night clubs

■ Prostitution, descent into hell

■ redemption/the health-carer

■ servant in Paris’s 16th district

■ Professional conversion/medical care assistant

■ Back to the stitches…

■ Meeting a first boyfriend

■ Conclusions: new transsexual challenges, ethical questions

■ What is adolescence?

■ Difficult to be a teenagerYour teenage child’s attitude to youYour attitude to your teenage child

■ how to handle your teenage childtaking stockresonancehow to act?After action

January 2012128 pages • 9.20 €

Portuguese rights already sold

The acQuisiTion of numBersmichel fayol

Thinking, counting, how do they function? Based on the results of the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, enriched by accounts of experiments conducted with children, this book invites us to rethink our way of teaching numbers.

Michel Fayol is a Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. He has written several books about the acquisi-tion and the use of written language and numbers, mainly in Puf’s ‘Apprendre’ series.

■ representing and symboli-cally manipulating quantities: the codes

■ Quantifying

■ the genesis and application of calculations

■ Difficulties and problems

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The acQuisiTion of languagemichèle kail

From the articulate production of sounds to the elaboration of speech, this book analyses how children acquire language. The author explains the subtlety and the complexity of an appren-ticeship that is uniquely human and gives advice on how to approach and find solutions for eventual language problems.

Michèle Kail is a research director at the CNRS.

■ new experimental paradigms of the acquisition of language

■ From sounds to words

■ From the emergence of syntax to grammatical constructions

■ the organisation of conver-sational and discursive capacities in the child

■ Atypical acquisition of language

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■ The Child in 100 Words Jacques André

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a TreaTise of suBlimaTionsophie de mijolla-mellor


A notion as important as repression, whose positive creative outcome it constitutes (as opposed to neurosis), sublimation occupies a paradoxical position in psychoanalysis: never totally defined by its founder, it is however indispensable if we want to reflect on the origins of feelings of affection, social links, artistic achievements and even the ‘pleasure of thinking’.

This book takes stock of the fruits of research since Freud and tests their capacity to reflect on human beings and their becoming, so demonstrating the irreplaceable contribution of psychoanalysis.

Agrégée in philosophy, Doctor of Arts, psychoanalyst, Pro-fessor at Paris Diderot University where she is director of the graduate school ‘Recherches en Psychanalyse’, Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor is internationally esteemed for her publications on the psychopathological, anthropologi-cal and cultural implications of sublimation and thought. Director of the review Topique, president of the Associa-tion Internationale Interactions de la Psychanalyse’ (A2IP), she has assembled here the contributions of her collabo-rators in that association.

■ What sublimation is not to Freud

■ What sublimation is to Freud

■ sublimation between eros and thanatos

■ sublimation after Freud

■ sublimation at different times of life

■ sublimation between thought and art

■ sublimation and belief

■ sublimation in social life

■ sublimation in everyday life

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April 2012 128 pages • 9.20 €

Narcissism is a key concept in psychoanalyti-cal theory and may be located at the heart of the construction of personalities, characters, and identities. This book invites us to explore narcissism in its various forms, from narcissistic wounds to the rage and the depression narcissism may provoke; touching also upon pernicious narcissistic perversion.

Paul Denis, internationally esteemed for his publications, is a psychoanalyst, member of the Société psychanaly-tique de Paris. He has written many books including Les phobies in the ‘Que sais-je?’ series.

■ narcissistic personality problems. A clinical perception: the case of Édouard Manet

■ narcissism in Freud’s work

■ some clinical aspects of narcissism

■ narcissistic sexuality, love and narcissism

■ narcissism and perversion, narcissistic perversion

■ evolution of the concept of narcissism in psychoanalytical theory

■ narcissus on the couch

■ the question of identity

■ the sociological destiny of narcissism

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anDré greenthe Key Concepts of Psychoanalysis

gérard Pirlot and Dominique cupa

André Green (1927-2012) was one of the great thinkers of contemporary psychoanalysis. He was an outstanding clinical practitioner and theo-retician and many of his concepts have altered our metapsychological comprehension of how the psyche functions. We owe to him the elaboration of an original model for theoretical and clinical thinking which has become indispensable today when non-neurotic structures, his specialization, are treated clinically.

He reformulated the fundamentals of metapsycho-logy while respecting Freud’s edifice and adding contributions from major thinkers such as J. Lacan, D.W. Winnicott and W.R. Bion, so renovat-ing psychoanalytical method.

This book covers the principal of André Green’s major concepts in two parts: first, the concep-tual genealogy up until 1996, then, working from the elaboration of the concept of clinical thinking, the evolution of André Green’s paradigms.

Gérard Pirlot, psychoanalyst and member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, Professor of Psychoanaly-tical Psychopathology at the University of Toulouse II, after a previous professorship at Paris West Nanterre La Défense University, former hospital psychiatrist, has written many books and articles. In 2011, he published ‘Du signe au discours d’André Green’ in Revue française de psychanalyse, 75, 4.

Dominique Cupa, psychoanalyst and member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, Professor of Psychoanalytical Psychopathology at Paris West Nanterre La Défense University, chairman of the Nephro Psycholo-gy Unit, AURA, Paris, has written many books and articles. In 2005, she authored a chapter of a work on ‘La question de l’affect chez André Green’, in L’affect (Paris, Puf) and in 2008 she edited Image du père dans la culture contemporaine. Hommage à André Green, (Paris, Puf).

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■ What sublimation is not to Freud

■ What sublimation is to Freud

■ sublimation between eros and thanatos

■ sublimation after Freud

■ sublimation at different times of life

■ sublimation between thought and art

■ sublimation and belief

■ sublimation in social life

■ sublimation in everyday life

■ narcissistic personality problems. A clinical perception: the case of Édouard Manet

■ narcissism in Freud’s work

■ some clinical aspects of narcissism

■ narcissistic sexuality, love and narcissism

■ narcissism and perversion, narcissistic perversion

■ evolution of the concept of narcissism in psychoanalytical theory

■ narcissus on the couch

■ the question of identity

■ the sociological destiny of narcissism


anDré greenthe Key Concepts of Psychoanalysis

gérard Pirlot and Dominique cupa

André Green (1927-2012) was one of the great thinkers of contemporary psychoanalysis. He was an outstanding clinical practitioner and theo-retician and many of his concepts have altered our metapsychological comprehension of how the psyche functions. We owe to him the elaboration of an original model for theoretical and clinical thinking which has become indispensable today when non-neurotic structures, his specialization, are treated clinically.

He reformulated the fundamentals of metapsycho-logy while respecting Freud’s edifice and adding contributions from major thinkers such as J. Lacan, D.W. Winnicott and W.R. Bion, so renovat-ing psychoanalytical method.

This book covers the principal of André Green’s major concepts in two parts: first, the concep-tual genealogy up until 1996, then, working from the elaboration of the concept of clinical thinking, the evolution of André Green’s paradigms.

Gérard Pirlot, psychoanalyst and member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, Professor of Psychoanaly-tical Psychopathology at the University of Toulouse II, after a previous professorship at Paris West Nanterre La Défense University, former hospital psychiatrist, has written many books and articles. In 2011, he published ‘Du signe au discours d’André Green’ in Revue française de psychanalyse, 75, 4.

Dominique Cupa, psychoanalyst and member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, Professor of Psychoanalytical Psychopathology at Paris West Nanterre La Défense University, chairman of the Nephro Psycholo-gy Unit, AURA, Paris, has written many books and articles. In 2005, she authored a chapter of a work on ‘La question de l’affect chez André Green’, in L’affect (Paris, Puf) and in 2008 she edited Image du père dans la culture contemporaine. Hommage à André Green, (Paris, Puf).

■ Conceptual genealogy until 1996

Affect

the ‘white psychosis: the child of id’

Life narcissism/death narcissism. the dead mother, negative hallucination and framing structure

Language in psychoanalysis

Borderlines and double borderlines: borderline disorders and private madness

the negative and its developments

the drive between language and representation of things

the death drive and the disobjectalizing function

■ Clinical thinking and Conceptual evolution after 1996

‘Clinical thinking’

the intrapsychic and the intersubjective: drives and/or object relations

Clinical thinking on non-neurotic states

From ‘thirdness’ to the construction of the absent father

the chains of eros and objectalization

heterochronology: time disintegrated and the unconscious

‘subjectal’ line, ‘objectal’ line and the theory of gradients

Psyche’s self-reflection

A second look at the death drive question

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sherlock holmes anD his meThoDDominique meyer-Bolzinger

Why are we still infatuated with Sherlock Holmes?

The author answers this question by proposing a pertinent and careful reading of Arthur Conan Doyle’s commen-taries on his ambivalent relationship with his character, tracing the development of the fictitious investigation and considering Sherlock Holmes as a model and reference for all the disciplines that are founded on the interpretation of signs, commonly referred to as the Human Sciences.

Dominique Meyer-Bolzinger, teaches twentieth century French Literature at the University of Haute-Alsace. Acclaimed specialist in detective fiction, she is particularly interested in the methods of fictitious investigation as well as the insistent presence of detective fiction in contem-porary literature. She has published numerous papers on detective fiction, on Simenon and on Modiano.

■ sherlock holmes, a 20th century myth

■ A strange expert

■ A doctors’ affair

■ the semiological adventure

■ A plea for clinical medicine

■ the sherlock holmes heritage

■ A discourse on method

■ is sherlock holmes positivist?

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“In this fine book, full of effer-vescent ideas and suggestions, detective fiction becomes a moment of Western thinking.” Mediapart


unParDonaBle ferencZiyves lugrin

Though a central figure in the history of psychoanaly-sis, Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933) remains marginal in relation to classic authors, so nourishing the misun-derstanding at the root of his companionship with Freud. The unfinished dialogue between Ferenczi and Freud nevertheless permits us to understand the ever-open and pressingly contemporary question of the institutional transmission of psychoanalysis.

Yves Lugrin is a psychoanalyst, associate member of the Société de psychanalyse freudienne (SPF), and author of numerous articles.

■ the Wiesbaden episode (1932)

■ the Palermo incident (summer 1910)

■ the Breslau ordeal (Christmas 1897)

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Psychoanalysis in PalesTineguido lieberman

The author retraces the history of Freudism in Palestine before the creation of the State of Israel. A history of immigration, tragedies, ideological combats and power-ful personalities, against a background of anti-Semitism and the rise of Nazism…

But this book also tells the story of the resistance to psy-choanalysis and Freud’s ambiguity regarding Palestine and Zionism. By exploring the reception of psychoanalysis in this country, Guido Liebermann takes us to the heart of the history of the Jewish people and the agonizing birth of the State of Israel, while revealing the incredible richness of that unique adventure.

Guido Lieberman lives and works near Tel Aviv. He is a psychoanalyst, a historian and clinical psychologist in a psychiatric hospital attached to Tel Aviv University.

Preface by elisabeth roudinesco

■ the institutional foundation of psychoanalysis in Palestine

■ Psychoanalysis and teaching skills

■ receptions and resistance to Freud in the Yishouv

epilogue: psychoanalysis in israel after WW2: ambiguities and consternation

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■ sherlock holmes, a 20th century myth

■ A strange expert

■ A doctors’ affair

■ the semiological adventure

■ A plea for clinical medicine

■ the sherlock holmes heritage

■ A discourse on method

■ is sherlock holmes positivist?


Preface by elisabeth roudinesco

■ the institutional foundation of psychoanalysis in Palestine

■ Psychoanalysis and teaching skills

■ receptions and resistance to Freud in the Yishouv

epilogue: psychoanalysis in israel after WW2: ambiguities and consternation

conferences

BeiJing / Paris • 2012

The professional seminar held in Beijing, a Puf initiative organised with the support of the Institut Français, brought together researchers, publishers, translators and booksellers.

The aim was to instigate a collective reflection on the objectives set by human science publishers in France and in China (to valorise research, satisfy the expectations of specialized readers, widen their readership, adjust content to societal debates), as well as on the challenges facing those publishers today (the development of digital technology, the invention of new ways of reading, writing and diffusing).

The day was organized in four round tables, one of which was devoted to the various problems linked to translation – the training of specialized translators in the appropriate domains, the time required and the cost of translation – but also the available financial support for translations, the contribution of trans-lators to the diffusion of research, bringing authors and important texts to the public’s attention. Lastly, the multiple possibilities offered by translation projects to authors (writing prefaces, adding chapters, updating biblio- graphies, making corrections) were discussed.

This June, the Puf foreign rights depart-ment organized what it hopes to be the first in a series of events geared toward translators working in the fields of social and human sciences.

Over forty translators working to and from languages as diverse as German, Japanese, Chinese and Russian attended the gathering, held in Paris.

Translators were able to discuss amongst themselves, sharing experiences and trajectories. It emerged that there is no one formula for becoming a translator, except interest and, often, academic training in the field the translator is working in. Invitees had the unique opportunity to hear English-language translator Catherine Porter speak with Luc Boltanski about their collabora-tion on the translations of several books by the French sociologist. A variety of interesting issues came up: what does a word like ‘grandeur’ become in English? When is it possible to main-tain unusual or rare-sounding words in a translation? Where do ‘concepts’ come in and how can translations into different languages help explore or even enrich them?

A new collaborative platform dedicated to translation, TLHub, was also presented at the gathering, informing the translators present about what technology can do for their profession. In short, the event was a way of formalizing a dialogue about translation that has been growing in scope over the past few years, and seems bound to continue its expansion.

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