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Johann Chapoutot, Les irresponsables. Qui a port\u00e9 Hitler au pouvoir ? <\/em>(Gallimard, 2025)<\/p>\n

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Un consortium lib\u00e9ral-autoritaire, tiss\u00e9 de solidarit\u00e9s d\u2019affaires, de partis conservateurs, nationalistes et lib\u00e9raux, de m\u00e9dias r\u00e9actionnaires et d\u2019\u00e9lites traditionnelles, perd tout soutien populaire : au fil des \u00e9lections, il passe de presque 50 % \u00e0 moins de 10 % des voix et se demande comment garder le pouvoir sans majorit\u00e9, sans parlement, voire sans d\u00e9mocratie. Cet extr\u00eame centre se pense destin\u00e9 \u00e0 gouverner par nature : sa politique est la meilleure et portera bient\u00f4t ses fruits. Quand les forces de r\u00e9pression avertissent qu\u2019elles ne pourront faire face \u00e0 un soul\u00e8vement g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9, le pouvoir, qui ne repose sur aucune base \u00e9lectorale, d\u00e9cide de faire alliance avec l\u2019extr\u00eame droite, avec laquelle il partage, au fond, \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s tout, et de l\u2019installer au sommet.
\nCette histoire se d\u00e9roule en Allemagne, entre mars 1930 et janvier 1933. Elle repose sur une lecture des archives politiques, des journaux intimes, correspondances, discours, articles de presse et M\u00e9moires des acteurs et t\u00e9moins majeurs. Elle r\u00e9v\u00e8le non pas la progression irr\u00e9sistible de la mar\u00e9e brune, mais une strat\u00e9gie pour capter son \u00e9nergie au profit d\u2019un lib\u00e9ralisme autoritaire imbu de lui-m\u00eame, dilettante et, in fine, parfaitement irresponsable.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Johann Chapoutot, Libres d’ob\u00e9ir. Le management, du nazisme \u00e0 aujourd’hui<\/em> (Gallimard, 2020)<\/p>\n

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Reinhard H\u00f6hn (1904-2000) est l\u2019arch\u00e9type de l\u2019intellectuel technocrate au service du III\u1d49 Reich. Juriste, il se distingue par la radicalit\u00e9 de ses r\u00e9flexions sur la progressive disparition de l\u2019\u00c9tat au profit de la \u00abcommunaut\u00e9\u00bb d\u00e9finie par la race et son \u00abespace vital\u00bb. Brillant fonctionnaire de la SS \u2013 il termine la guerre comme Oberf\u00fchrer (g\u00e9n\u00e9ral) \u2013, il nourrit la r\u00e9flexion nazie sur l\u2019adaptation des institutions au Grand Reich \u00e0 venir \u2013 quelles structures et quelles r\u00e9formes? Revenu \u00e0 la vie civile, il cr\u00e9e bient\u00f4t \u00e0 Bad Harzburg un institut de formation au management qui accueille au fil des d\u00e9cennies l\u2019\u00e9lite \u00e9conomique et patronale de la R\u00e9publique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale : quelque 600 000 cadres issus des principales soci\u00e9t\u00e9s allemandes, sans compter 100 000 inscrits en formation \u00e0 distance, y ont appris, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ses s\u00e9minaires et \u00e0 ses nombreux manuels \u00e0 succ\u00e8s, la gestion des hommes. Ou plus exactement l\u2019organisation hi\u00e9rarchique du travail par d\u00e9finition d\u2019objectifs, le producteur, pour y parvenir, demeurant libre de choisir les moyens \u00e0 appliquer. Ce qui fut tr\u00e8s exactement la politique du Reich pour se r\u00e9armer, affamer les populations slaves des territoires de l\u2019Est, exterminer les Juifs.
\nPass\u00e9 les ann\u00e9es 1980, d\u2019autres mod\u00e8les prendront la rel\u00e8ve (le japonais, par exemple, moins hi\u00e9rarchis\u00e9). Mais le nazisme aura \u00e9t\u00e9 un grand moment manag\u00e9rial et une des matrices du management moderne.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Johann Chapoutot, Free to Obey. How the Nazis invented Modern Management <\/em>(Europa editions, 2023)<\/p>\n

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Reinhard H\u00f6hn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany\u2019s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany\u2019s defeat, after a few years in hiding, he emerged in the early 1950s as the founder and director of a renowned management school in Lower Saxony.<\/p>\n

H\u00f6hn\u2019s story wouldn\u2019t be very different from that of many other prominent Nazis if not for the fact that a vast number of Germany\u2019s postwar business leaders\u2014more than 600,000 executives\u2014were educated at his management school.<\/p>\n

In this fascinating book, Johann Chapoutot, one of France\u2019s most brilliant historians, traces the profound links between Nazism and the principles of modern corporate management, our definitions of success, and a concept of personal freedom that masks rigid hierarchical structures of power and control.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most gifted European historians of his generation.\u201d\u2014Timothy Snyder, New York Times<\/em> best-selling author of On Tyranny<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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James C. Scott, Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (<\/em>Princeton University Press, 2025)<\/p>\n

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James Scott taught us what\u2019s wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism<\/em> is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing\u2014one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself.<\/p>\n

Beginning with what Scott calls \u201cthe law of anarchist calisthenics,\u201d an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation.<\/p>\n

Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism<\/em> celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.<\/p>\n

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Marshall Sahlins, The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2022)<\/p>\n

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From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of \u201creligion\u201d and the \u201csupernatural.\u201d The New Science of the Enchanted Universe<\/em> shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights.<\/p>\n

In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world, from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa, from Arawet\u00e9 swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process, Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane, all-too-human spheres of \u201ceconomics\u201d and \u201cpolitics\u201d emerge as people negotiate with, and ultimately usurp, the powers of the gods.<\/p>\n

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe<\/em> offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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James C. Scott, Against the Grain. A Deep History of the Earliest States <\/em>(Yale University Press, 2018)<\/p>\n

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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today\u2019s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family\u2014all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.
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\nScott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the \u201cbarbarians\u201d who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.<\/p>\n

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James C. Scott, Homo Domesticus. <\/em>Une histoire profonde des premiers \u00c9tats <\/em>(La D\u00e9couverte, 2019)<\/p>\n

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Aucun ouvrage n’avait jusqu’\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 restituer toute la profondeur et l’extension universelle des dynamiques indissociablement \u00e9cologiques et anthropologiques qui se sont d\u00e9ploy\u00e9es au cours des dix mill\u00e9naires ayant pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 notre \u00e8re, de l’\u00e9mergence de l’agriculture \u00e0 la formation des premiers centres urbains, puis des premiers \u00c9tats.
\nC’est ce tour de force que r\u00e9alise avec un brio extraordinaire Homo domesticus<\/em>. Servi par une \u00e9rudition \u00e9tourdissante, une plume agile et un sens aigu de la formule, ce livre d\u00e9monte implacablement le grand r\u00e9cit de la naissance de l’\u00c9tat antique comme \u00e9tape cruciale de la ” civilisation ” humaine.
\nCe faisant, il nous offre une v\u00e9ritable \u00e9cologie politique des formes primitives d’am\u00e9nagement du territoire, de l'” autodomestication ” paradoxale de l’animal humain, des dynamiques d\u00e9mographiques et \u00e9pid\u00e9miologiques de la s\u00e9dentarisation et des logiques de la servitude et de la guerre dans le monde antique.
\nCette fresque omnivore et iconoclaste r\u00e9volutionne nos connaissances sur l’\u00e9volution de l’humanit\u00e9 et sur ce que Rousseau appelait ” l’origine et les fondements de l’in\u00e9galit\u00e9 parmi les hommes “.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Asma <\/span>Mhalla<\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Technopolitique <\/span><\/span><\/em>(Seuil, 2024)<\/span><\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Intelligence artificielle, r\u00e9seaux sociaux, implants c\u00e9r\u00e9braux, satellites, m\u00e9tavers\u2026 Le choc technologique sera l\u2019un des enjeux cl\u00e9s du XXIe si\u00e8cle et les g\u00e9ants am\u00e9ricains, les \u00ab BigTech \u00bb, sont \u00e0 l\u2019avant-garde. Entit\u00e9s hybrides, ils remod\u00e8lent la morphologie des \u00c9tats, red\u00e9finissent les jeux de pouvoir et de puissance entre nations, interviennent dans la guerre, tracent les nouvelles fronti\u00e8res de la souverainet\u00e9.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

 S\u2019ils sont au c\u0153ur de la fabrique de la puissance \u00e9tatsunienne face \u00e0 la Chine, ils sont \u00e9galement des agents perturbateurs de la d\u00e9mocratie. De ces liens ambivalents entre BigTech et \u00ab BigState \u00bb est n\u00e9 un nouveau L\u00e9viathan \u00e0 deux t\u00eates, anim\u00e9 par un d\u00e9sir de puissance hors limites. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Mais qui gouverne ces nouveaux acteurs priv\u00e9s de la prolif\u00e9ration technologique ? A cette vertigineuse question, nous n\u2019avons d\u2019autre choix que d\u2019opposer l\u2019innovation politique ! S\u2019attaquant \u00e0 tous les faux d\u00e9bats qui nous font manquer l\u2019essentiel, Asma Mhalla ose ainsi une th\u00e8se forte et perturbante : les technologies de l\u2019hypervitesse, \u00e0 la fois civiles et militaires, font de chacun d\u2019entre nous, qu\u2019on le veuille ou non, des soldats. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Nos cerveaux sont devenus l\u2019ultime champ de bataille. Il est urgent de le penser car ce n\u2019est rien de moins que le nouvel ordre mondial qui est en jeu, mais aussi la d\u00e9mocratie.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Dosse,\u202fVincennes. Heurts et malheurs de l\u2019universit\u00e9 de tous les possibles\u202f<\/i>(Payot, 2024) <\/p>\n

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Le 27 ao\u00fbt 1980, \u00e0 3 heures du matin, les bulldozers entrent \u00e0 Vincennes et d\u00e9vastent tout sur leur passage, b\u00e2timents comme arbres. Du Centre universitaire exp\u00e9rimental de Vincennes, il ne reste plus rien. Pas un d\u00e9bris, pas m\u00eame une pancarte. Dans le Bois, les r\u00eaves se sont \u00e9teints. Fruit des luttes de Mai 68, cette exp\u00e9rience unique mit la libert\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique au c\u0153ur de sa construction : p\u00e9dagogie r\u00e9volutionnaire, abolition des rapports hi\u00e9rarchiques et ouverture \u00e0 tous. Foucault, Deleuze, Cixous ou Ranci\u00e8re y enseign\u00e8rent. Lacan, Pasolini, Marcuse ou Chomsky y marqu\u00e8rent les esprits. Fran\u00e7ois Dosse brosse le portrait de ces douze ann\u00e9es : de la cr\u00e9ation de la cr\u00e8che \u00e0 celle des souks, des cours d’un bagnard \u00e0 ceux sans ma\u00eetre ; des premiers enseignements de sexologie aux premi\u00e8res manifestations du MLF. Autant d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements qui forgeront le mythe Vincennes.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Amitav Ghosh,\u202f<\/span><\/span>The Nutmeg\u2019s Curse<\/span> Parables for a Planet in Crisis<\/span><\/span><\/em> (Chicago University Press, 2021)<\/span><\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span> <\/span>
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In this ambitious successor to\u202f<\/span>The Great Derangement,\u202f<\/span><\/i>acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism\u2019s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.<\/span> 
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\nA powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh\u2019s new book traces\u202four contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the\u202fNew World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean.<\/span>\u202fThe Nutmeg\u2019s Curse\u202f<\/span><\/i>argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh\u2019s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation\u2014of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh\u2019s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning.<\/span> 
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\nWriting against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world,\u202f<\/span>The Nutmeg\u2019s Curse<\/span><\/i>\u202foffers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Amitav Ghosh,\u202f<\/span><\/span>La mal\u00e9diction de la muscade. Une contre-histoire de la modernit\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u202f<\/em>(<\/span>Wildproject<\/span>, 2024)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u202fQue doit-on ressentir lorsqu\u2019on se trouve face \u00e0 quelqu\u2019un qui nous a clairement fait comprendre qu\u2019il a le pouvoir de mettre fin \u00e0 notre monde et qu\u2019il a l\u2019intention de le faire\u202f?\u202f\u00bb<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

Une nuit d\u2019avril 1621, sur l\u2019\u00eele de Banda Besar \u00e0 l\u2019extr\u00eame est de l\u2019oc\u00e9an Indien, une lampe tombe \u00e0 terre. Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement d\u00e9clenche le massacre de la population de l\u2019\u00eele par les soldats hollandais. La raison de ce g\u00e9nocide\u202f: le monopole mondial du commerce de la noix de muscade.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c0 partir de la noix de muscade, Amitav Ghosh met en sc\u00e8ne la mal\u00e9diction des ressources qui font des \u00eeles Banda le lieu d\u2019une des premi\u00e8res guerres extractivistes \u2014 et un point de d\u00e9part pour les grands troubles de notre temps\u202f: la crise \u00e9cologique et les crimes coloniaux.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

De Banda Besar \u00e0 Standing Rock et jusque dans les profondeurs de la for\u00eat amazonienne, l\u2019auteur assemble des r\u00e9cits de destruction et de r\u00e9sistance comme autant de pi\u00e8ces d\u2019un puzzle.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Entre carnet de voyage et enqu\u00eate historique,\u202f<\/span>La Mal\u00e9diction de la muscade<\/span><\/i>\u202fsouligne le r\u00f4le central de nos r\u00e9cits collectifs dans la r\u00e9paration du monde.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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James Poskett,\u202fHorizons: A Global History of Science<\/i>\u202f(Viking, 2022) <\/span><\/p>\n

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A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history<\/span> 
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\nIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.<\/span> 
\nThe blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual ‘genius’ – Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein – was only one part of the story. The reality was an utterly global, non-linear pattern of cross-fertilization, competition, cooperation and outright conflict. Each rupture in history carved fresh channels for global exchange.<\/span> 
\nHere, for the first time, Poskett celebrates how scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific were integral to this very human story. We meet Graman Kwasi, the African botanist who discovered a new cure for malaria; Hantaro Nagaoka, the Japanese scientist who first described the structure of the atom; and Zhao Zhongyao, the Chinese physicist who discovered antimatter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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James Poskett,\u202fUne nouvelle histoire mondiale des sciences. Ce que la science moderne doit aux soci\u00e9t\u00e9s non\u202feurop\u00e9ennes <\/i>(Seuil, 2023) <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nUne nouvelle histoire mondiale des sciences<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Dans cet essai fondamental, James Poskett propose de comprendre en quoi la r\u00e9volution scientifique moderne ne doit pas tout aux Europ\u00e9ens que sont Copernic, Galil\u00e9e ou Newton. Car le d\u00e9veloppement des sciences fut international, et jamais plus fertile que lorsqu\u2019elles se retrouv\u00e8rent au croisement des cultures. Dans cette brillante refonte de l’histoire des sciences, James Poskett nous embarque dans un voyage captivant \u00e0 travers si\u00e8cles et continents, sur la route de la soie, dans la for\u00eat p\u00e9ruvienne et sur la houle du Pacifique. Il tisse ainsi les fils d’une tapisserie d\u00e9taill\u00e9e et coh\u00e9rente des aventures et des personnages qui ont contribu\u00e9 tous ensemble \u00e0 l\u2019essor des sciences modernes.<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Amine Maalouf,\u202fLe labyrinthe des \u00e9gar\u00e9s<\/i>\u202f(Grasset, 2023) <\/span><\/p>\n

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Une guerre d\u00e9vastatrice vient d\u2019\u00e9clater au c\u0153ur de l\u2019Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du pass\u00e9 ; des menaces de cataclysme nucl\u00e9aire sont constamment agit\u00e9es, alors qu\u2019on les croyait d\u00e9finitivement \u00e9cart\u00e9es ; un bras de fer plan\u00e9taire se d\u00e9roule, opposant l\u2019Occident \u00e0 la Chine et \u00e0 la Russie\u2026 Il est clair qu\u2019un bouleversement majeur est en train de se produire, qui affecte d\u00e9j\u00e0 notre mode de vie, et qui remet en cause les fondements m\u00eames de notre civilisation. Chacun en a conscience, mais personne encore n\u2019a contempl\u00e9 cette crise avec la profondeur de champ qu\u2019elle m\u00e9rite.<\/span> 
\nComment en est-on arriv\u00e9 l\u00e0 ? Amin Maalouf remonte, dans ce livre, aux origines de ce nouvel affrontement entre l\u2019Occident et ses adversaires, en retra\u00e7ant l\u2019itin\u00e9raire de quatre grandes nations : d\u2019abord le Japon de l\u2019\u00e8re Meiji, qui fut le premier pays d\u2019Asie \u00e0 d\u00e9fier la supr\u00e9matie des nations \u00ab\u202f blanches\u202f \u00bb, et dont la modernisation acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e fascina l\u2019humanit\u00e9 enti\u00e8re, notamment les autres pays d\u2019Orient, qui tous r\u00eav\u00e8rent de l\u2019imiter ; puis la Russie sovi\u00e9tique, qui constitua, pendant trois quarts de si\u00e8cle, une formidable menace pour l\u2019Occident, son syst\u00e8me et ses valeurs, avant de s\u2019effondrer ; ensuite la Chine, qui repr\u00e9sente en ce vingt-et-uni\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, par son d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique, par son poids d\u00e9mographique et par l\u2019id\u00e9ologie de ses dirigeants, le principal d\u00e9fi \u00e0 la supr\u00e9matie de l\u2019Occident ; et enfin les Etats-Unis, qui ont tenu t\u00eate \u00e0 chacun des trois \u00ab challengers \u00bb, et qui sont devenus, au fil des guerres, le chef supr\u00eame de l\u2019Occident et la premi\u00e8re superpuissance plan\u00e9taire.<\/span> 
\nL\u2019ensemble de ces r\u00e9cits constitue une grande fresque historique qui \u00e9claire, comme on ne l\u2019avait jamais vu jusqu\u2019ici, les enjeux des conflits en cours, les motivations des protagonistes, et les \u00e9tranges paradoxes de notre \u00e9poque.<\/span> 
\nEn exergue du livre, l\u2019auteur cite cette parole si pertinente de Faulkner : \u00ab Le pass\u00e9 ne meurt jamais. Il ne faut m\u00eame pas le croire pass\u00e9. \u00bb<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Rovelli Carlo, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics<\/em> (Penguin, 2016 (2014))<\/p>\n

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This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein\u2019s general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. The book celebrates the joy of discovery.  \u201cHere, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,\u201d Rovelli writes. \u201cAnd it\u2019s breathtaking.\u201d (from https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Capra Fritjof and Luisi Pier Luigi, The Systems View of Life<\/em> (Cambridge, 2014)<\/p>\n

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Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of ‘systemic’ thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution. The implications of the systems view of life for health care, management, and our global ecological and economic crises are also discussed. Written primarily for undergraduates, it is also essential reading for graduate students and researchers interested in understanding the new systemic conception of life and its implications for a broad range of professions – from economics and politics to medicine, psychology and law.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Hugues Bersini, Des r\u00e9seaux et des science<\/em>s<\/em> (Vuibert, 2005)<\/p>\n

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La science est toujours en qu\u00eate d’universaux, \u00e0 la recherche de structures et de m\u00e9canismes communs dans des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s apparemment distinctes. Les r\u00e9seaux sont de ce fait un sujet d’\u00e9tude privil\u00e9gi\u00e9, car des entit\u00e9s interconnect\u00e9es et variant dans le temps, il est ais\u00e9 d’en d\u00e9couvrir partout : urbanisme, r\u00e9actions chimiques, biologie, cerveau, t\u00e9l\u00e9communications, \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes, etc.<\/p>\n

Toute la science de ces cinquante derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es a \u00e9t\u00e9 fortement marqu\u00e9e par l’utilisation massive de l’informatique pour chercher \u00e0 simuler le comportement de l’objet d’\u00e9tude et faciliter ainsi mod\u00e9lisation et pr\u00e9diction.<\/p>\n

Cet ouvrage pr\u00e9sente donc, de la mani\u00e8re la plus accessible possible, cette science des r\u00e9seaux, en partant de situations connues, souvent quotidiennes : r\u00e9seaux sociaux, de transports, informatiques, d’acteurs de cin\u00e9ma ; r\u00e9seaux de mots, de g\u00e8nes et de neurones ; r\u00e9seaux immunitaires et \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Hugues Bersini, Qu\u2019est-ce que l\u2019\u00e9mergence ?<\/em> (Ellipses, 2007)<\/p>\n

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Le tout vaut plus que la somme des parties, 1 + 1 = 3, voil\u00e0 ce que l’on dit des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes \u00e9mergents. Serait-ce cette \u00e9mergence le secret de la conscience ou de la vie ? Les physiciens, conduits en cela par deux r\u00e9cents prix Nobel, y d\u00e9c\u00e8lent les pr\u00e9misses d’une r\u00e9volution conceptuelle de leur pratique encore \u00e0 venir. Que le tout d’une voiture ou d’un ordinateur soit davantage que la somme des parties qui les constituent n’a pourtant pas de quoi \u00e9tonner l’ing\u00e9nieur ! La main invisible de l’\u00e9conomie lib\u00e9rale, au-del\u00e0 d’\u00eatre invisible, est-elle r\u00e9ellement \u00e9mergente ? Et pourquoi est-ce dans les textes de biologie que l’on retrouve l’\u00e9mergence le plus souvent cit\u00e9e, comme si cette science pouvait pr\u00e9tendre \u00e0 plus de l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 dans cette utilisation ? Quel est cet apparent myst\u00e8re d’un tout qui va au-del\u00e0 des parties ou d’un ensemble qui transcende ses \u00e9l\u00e9ments. Quels sont-ils ces ingr\u00e9dients de base de la recette de l’\u00e9mergence ? Que faut-il pour que cette mayonnaise ensembliste prenne alors m\u00eame qu’elle fait toujours d\u00e9bat ?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life. A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems<\/em> (Anchor Books, 1996) <\/p>\n

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During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life,<\/em> Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. Capra\u2019s surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Jean-Paul Delahaye, Complexit\u00e9 al\u00e9atoire et complexit\u00e9 organis\u00e9e<\/em> (\u00c9ditions Quae, 2009) <\/p>\n

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Qu’est-ce que la complexit\u00e9 ? Y a-t-il un concept pr\u00e9cis derri\u00e8re le mot ? Que nous disent les math\u00e9matiques sur de possibles d\u00e9finitions formelles ? Quelles sont les cons\u00e9quences et les applications du travail de d\u00e9finition th\u00e9orique ?<\/p>\n

Ces questions, qui trouvent leur r\u00e9ponse dans ce livre, int\u00e9resseront \u00e0 la fois les math\u00e9maticiens, les statisticiens, les biologistes et tous les \u00e9tudiants des grandes \u00e9coles d\u2019ing\u00e9nieur, mais aussi tous ceux qui veulent comprendre la philosophie des sciences contemporaines dont l’un des buts est de saisir la nature profonde du hasard et de la complexit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Ivar Ekeland, Au Hasard. La science, la chance et le monde<\/em> (Seuil, 2004)<\/p>\n

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Ceci est un livre sur le hasard et sur les rapports que la science entretient avec la chance. L\u2019auteur, math\u00e9maticien de profession, a toujours maintenu que la science fait partie de la culture et que les concepts scientifiques les plus modernes peuvent et doivent s\u2019expliquer par r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 l\u2019univers culturel. Il en fait, ici la d\u00e9monstration en s\u2019appuyant sur quelques \u00e9pisodes d\u2019une grande \u0153uvre litt\u00e9raire, Les Sagas des rois de Norv\u00e8ge<\/em> de l\u2019Islandais Snorri Sturlasson (1179-1241). Chacun de ces \u00e9pisodes sert de point de d\u00e9part \u00e0 un d\u00e9veloppement qui nous fait d\u00e9couvrir l\u2019un des aspects de la th\u00e9orie math\u00e9matique du hasard. Nous parcourons ainsi de vastes espaces scientifiques, du classique calcul des probabilit\u00e9s au moderne chaos, des syst\u00e8mes dynamiques \u00e0 la th\u00e9orie de l\u2019information, de la logique \u00e0 la statistique et nous rencontrons en cours de route quelques objets familiers de la science contemporaine : l\u2019entropie, les fractales, le mouvement brownien.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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David Napier, Age of Immunology \u2013 Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2002)  <\/p>\n

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David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology\u2014that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self\u2014has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an incredibly diverse array of venues, from medical research to legal and military strategies and the electronic revolution, Napier shows how this defensive way of looking at the world not only destroys diversity but also eliminates the possibility of truly engaging difference, thereby impoverishing our culture and foreclosing tremendous opportunities for personal growth.<\/p>\n

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Nicolas Gisin, L’impensable hasard : Non-localit\u00e9, t\u00e9l\u00e9portation et autres merveilles quantiques<\/em> (Odile Jacob, 2012)
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La physique quantique n\u2019est pas avare de propri\u00e9t\u00e9s singuli\u00e8res. Mais cette science a aussi des implications plus fondamentales, qui constituent de v\u00e9ritables d\u00e9fis \u00e0 la logique ordinaire. La notion d\u2019\u00ab intrication \u00bb, en particulier, explor\u00e9e depuis une trentaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es, m\u00e8ne \u00e0 l\u2019existence, tr\u00e8s contre-intuitive, d\u2019un hasard ubiquitaire, capable de se manifester simultan\u00e9ment en plusieurs endroits de notre univers\u2026
\nCette stup\u00e9fiante \u00ab non-localit\u00e9 \u00bb   a des applications bien concr\u00e8tes en cryptographie, pour la protection des donn\u00e9es financi\u00e8res et m\u00e9dicales, et a permis la d\u00e9monstration d\u2019une \u00ab t\u00e9l\u00e9portation quantique \u00bb dont les auteurs de science-fiction les plus imaginatifs ont du mal \u00e0 entrevoir les infinies possibilit\u00e9s.
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Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution<\/em> (Basic Books, 1999) <\/p>\n

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Ranging from bacteria, the smallest kinds of life, to the largest\u2014the living Earth itself\u2014Margulis explains the symbiotic origins of many of evolution\u2019s most important innovations. The very cells we\u2019re made of started as symbiotic unions of different kinds of bacteria. Sex\u2014and its inevitable corollary, death\u2014arose when failed attempts at cannibalism resulted in seasonally repeated mergers of some of our tiniest ancestors. Dry land became forested only after symbioses of algae and fungi evolved into plants. Since all living things are bathed by the same waters and atmosphere, all the inhabitants of Earth belong to a symbiotic union. Gaia, the finely tuned largest ecosystem of the Earth\u2019s surface, is just symbiosis as seen from space.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2008)<\/p>\n

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Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere? In this bold and fresh look at science and religion, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman argues that the qualities of divinity that we revere \u2013 creativity, meaning, purposeful action \u2013 are properties of the universe that can be investigated methodically. He offers stunning evidence for this idea in an abundance of fields, from cell biology to the philosophy of mind, and uses it to find common ground between belief systems often at odds with one another.A daring and ambitious argument for a new understanding of natural divinity, Reinventing the Sacred challenges readers both scientifically and philosophically.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Stuart Kauffman, Humanity in a Creative Universe<\/em> (OUP, 2016)<\/p>\n

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Grounded in his rigorous training and research background, Kauffman is inter-disciplinary in every sense of the word, sorting through the major questions and theories in biology, physics, and philosophy. Best known for his philosophy of evolutionary biology, Kauffman coined the term “prestatability” to call into question whether science can ever accurately and precisely predict the future development of biological features in organisms. As evidenced by the title’s mention of creativity, the book refreshingly argues that our preoccupation to explain all things with scientific law has deadened our creative natures. In this fascinating read, Kauffman concludes that the development of life on earth is not entirely predictable, because no theory could ever fully account for the limitless variations of evolution. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Zwirn Herv\u00e9, Les limites de la connaissance<\/em> (Odile Jacob, 2000)<\/p>\n

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La science nous permettra-t-elle un jour de tout savoir ? Ne r\u00eave-t-elle pas d\u2019une formule qui explique tout ? N\u2019y aurait-il donc rien qui entrave sa marche triomphale ? Le monde deviendra-t-il transparent \u00e0 l\u2019intelligence humaine ? Tout myst\u00e8re pourra-t-il \u00eatre \u00e0 jamais dissip\u00e9 ? Herv\u00e9 Zwirn pense qu\u2019il n\u2019en est rien. La science, en m\u00eame temps qu\u2019elle progresse \u00e0 pas de g\u00e9ants, marque elle-m\u00eame ses limites. C\u2019est ce que montre la d\u00e9couverte des propositions ind\u00e9cidables qui ont suivi le th\u00e9or\u00e8me de G\u00f6del. Ou celle des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s surprenantes du chaos d\u00e9terministe. Ou encore les paradoxes de la th\u00e9orie quantique qui ont oppos\u00e9 Einstein et Bohr et mettent en cause toute notre mani\u00e8re de penser. L\u2019analyse de ces limites que la science d\u00e9couvre \u00e0 sa propre connaissance conduit l\u2019auteur \u00e0 poser cette question, la plus profonde : qu\u2019est-ce que le r\u00e9el ?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Zwirn Herv\u00e9, Les syst\u00e8mes complexes<\/em> (Odile Jacob, 2005)<\/p>\n

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Comment les oiseaux coordonnent-ils leurs vols au long cours ? Comment nos milliards de neurones se connectent-ils pour fabriquer notre personnalit\u00e9 ? Pourquoi des esp\u00e8ces animales restent-elles stables pendant des mill\u00e9naires avant de se transformer en un instant ? Pourquoi l\u2019Union sovi\u00e9tique a-t-elle pu s\u2019effondrer en quelques mois apr\u00e8s avoir domin\u00e9 l\u2019Europe pendant plus d\u2019un demi-si\u00e8cle ?<\/p>\n

Qu\u2019est-ce qui diff\u00e9rencie un syst\u00e8me complexe d\u2019un syst\u00e8me simple ? Comment peut-on \u00e9tudier un syst\u00e8me sans le r\u00e9duire \u00e0 ses constituants ? Comment peut-on d\u00e9crire son fonctionnement s\u2019il est chaotique ?<\/p>\n

Dans cette introduction qui fourmille d\u2019exemples concrets, Herv\u00e9 Zwirn d\u00e9crit les math\u00e9matiques des syst\u00e8mes complexes dans la vie et la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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