Philosophy

Anselm Kiefer's universe revisited by the philosopher Jean-Noël Vuarnet.

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

A literary adventure resulting from a collaboration spanning several years between an artist experimenting with AI and an academic working on issues of literature, media, and attention.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.

Three texts by the Marxist theorist from the Czechoslovak avant-garde of the interwar period, Karel Teige, translated into English for the first time.

In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.

The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

This volume revisits Alain Badiou's renunciation of his postulate that mathematics is ontology, and questions the legacy of French epistemology.