For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged from and adv...

Was Aleister Crowley a British spy? A documented investigation into occultism, espionage, and twentieth-century intelligence. Secret Agent 666 by historian Richard B. Spence examines the long-debated claim that occultist Aleister Crowley operated as an intelligence asset during the first half of the twentieth centur...

« Peut-on parler d’une culture mondiale ? À première vue la réponse est positive. La mondialisation repose sur une universalisation économique accompagnée d’une universalisation politique. Le système de l’économie monde repose sur l’expansion des marchés et sur la généralisation de l’entreprise comme institution tot...

**An Ars Technica Holiday Reading Title of 2021 A lively and approachable meditation on how we can transform our digital lives if we let a little Nietzsche in.** Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts F...

Cooperatives are traditionally recognized as marginal players in the economic sector, but their role in policymaking and in social arenas has garnered even less attention. Over the past two decades, an extensive body of literature in management science and economics has arisen, designating non-capitalistic enterpris...

Ce volume se propose de rouvrir les recherches sur la confrontation entre Spinoza et Malebranche, à laquelle l’histoire de la philosophie s’est jusqu’ici peu livrée, ou dont elle ne s’est guère acquittée que sous les formes figées de la triangulation (la lecture croisée des deux auteurs dans leur rapport à Descartes...

Les œuvres de Foucault et de Wittgenstein, qui relèvent de traditions philosophiques fort éloignées, peuvent toutefois entrer en résonance et se relancer mutuellement : cette mise en perspective permet alors de cerner les points aveugles comme l’insistance contemporaine du questionnement philosophique propres à chac...

Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit outside of our politics, and which can be used to judge it. Against this depoliticising impulse, George Boss offers a provocative re-reading of Marx’s writin...

After 15 years of teaching more than 3 million people his System for using more of their mind the way ultra-successful people do, Jose Silva wanted to continue guiding them- physically, emotionally, and spiritually – so Silva started a “Founder’s Column" which became the most popular feature in the Silva Method News...

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living. ‘Full of wisdom and comfort' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN ‘A practical path toward personal transformation… A must-read' CAL NEWPORT Our lives can feel defined by the struggle with overwhelm, endless decisions and striving to be productive. Wouldn’t it be good to stop doing all...

A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition. We are so used to distinguishing between the possible and the real, between essence and existence that we do not realize that these distinctions, which seem so obvious to us, are the result of a lon...

The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority, it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political syst...

Les rapports entre marxisme et phénoménologie ont constitué un axe fondamental du débat culturel européen, dans les années 1960 et 1970. Dans la France de l’après-guerre, Sartre et Merleau-Ponty faisaient déjà référence, sur le plan de la fondation théorique, à la tradition phénoménologique de Husserl et de Heidegge...

How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well-known reasons of slowing economic growth and declining confidence in the public sector. According to the influential social theorist Pierre Rosa...

「快樂、滿足、痛苦，都是一種選擇，由你決定！」 一個關於人生意義的真實故事，一趟逆轉人生的意外旅程！ ✦ 此為作者9年前遇到的真實事件，啟發他動筆寫下這個故事。 ✦ 一個超級富豪，為何肯放下財富，走入另一種生活？ ✦ 讀者推薦：「如果你有朋友是工作狂，狂到六親不認，一定要推薦這本書給他（她）！」 ✦ 感動徳國10萬名讀者，蟬聯暢銷...

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to...