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DESCARTES - LIVING WITH THE PASSIONS: / Micha...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Philosophers, 2013. Descartes draws a very sharp distinction between mind and body, conceiving the mind as a purely immaterial entity that could exist separately from the body. But he also insists that the two are i...

FRANÇOIS CUSSET: THE PROBLEM WITH THEORY / In...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Pilosophers, 2013. On issues such as gender, post-colonialism, social critique, or the cultural industry, ‘theory’ has been enjoying a renewed interest, and a great success, for quite a while now, as a sort of para-...

David Hume - The Quarrel with Rousseau / Caro...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

Performed by Caroline Binder as part of the 2013 edition of 'My Night with Philosophers'. In 1766, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume became friends. The friendship, though, quickly fell apart. As Hume sadly noted, its collap...

The Life and Work of Jacques Derrida / Derrid...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

A lecture commemorating the life and work of one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida was born in 1930 in French Algeria. As a philosopher, his critique of Western philosophy and analyses of...

CAMUS REVISITED DISCUSSION WITH KAMEL DAOUD /...

Document audiovisuel | 2015

Catch up on an event which took place at the Institut français on the 24th of June 2015. As part of the panel discussion exploring The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, French documentary director Abraham Segal was invited ...

Julia Kristeva - The Genius of Women / Julia ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

"There are three things worth doing in the world: to think, to heal and to write." This is an intellectual discussion about psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Julia Kristeva is a professor of the Institut Universitaire de Fr...

Alice Cherki - Frantz Fanon and his legacy / ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

This is a discussion about the lasting effects of French-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer Frantz Fanon. Although the Martinique-born Afro-Caribbean writer's books have been very influential in the field...

George Sand toujours présente

Livre numérique | Joyale, Renée | 2011

Peinetures

Livre numérique | Cixous, Hélène | 2010

Trois filles et leurs mères - Duras, Colette,...

Livre numérique | Carquain, Sophie | 2014

Seule une femme

Livre numérique | Kristeva, Julia | 2013

Colette, un génie féminin

Livre numérique | Kristeva, Julia | 2015

Babylone

Livre numérique | Reza, Yasmina. Auteur | 2016

« Tout le monde riait. Les Manoscrivi riaient. C’est l’image d’eux qui est restée. Jean-Lino, en chemise parme, avec ses nouvelles lunettes jaunes semi-rondes, debout derrière le canapé, empourpré par le champagne ou par l’excitat...

Désorientale

Livre numérique | Djavadi, Négar. Auteur | 2018

Si nous étions en Iran, cette salle d’attente d’hôpital ressemblerait à un caravansérail, songe Kimiâ. Un joyeux foutoir où s’enchaîneraient bavardages, confidences et anecdotes en cascade. Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses...

L'Art de perdre

Livre numérique | Zeniter, Alice. Auteur | 2017

L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses or...

Julia Kristeva - The Genius of Women / Julia ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

"There are three things worth doing in the world: to think, to heal and to write." This is an intellectual discussion about psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Julia Kristeva is a professor of the Institut Universitaire de Fr...

Simone Veil, mon héroïne

Livre numérique | Slimani, Leïla | 2017

Paroles d'honneur

BD numérique | Leila Slimani | 2017

Rabat, été 2015. Suite à la parution de son livre Dans le jardin de l’ogre, un roman cru et audacieux qui aborde la thématique de l’addiction sexuelle, Leila Slimani part à la rencontre de ses lectrices marocaines. Face à cette éc...

FRANÇOIS CUSSET: THE PROBLEM WITH THEORY / In...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Pilosophers, 2013. On issues such as gender, post-colonialism, social critique, or the cultural industry, ‘theory’ has been enjoying a renewed interest, and a great success, for quite a while now, as a sort of para-...

DESCARTES - LIVING WITH THE PASSIONS: / Micha...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Philosophers, 2013. Descartes draws a very sharp distinction between mind and body, conceiving the mind as a purely immaterial entity that could exist separately from the body. But he also insists that the two are i...

The Life and Work of Jacques Derrida / Derrid...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

A lecture commemorating the life and work of one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida was born in 1930 in French Algeria. As a philosopher, his critique of Western philosophy and analyses of...

Alice Cherki - Frantz Fanon and his legacy / ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

This is a discussion about the lasting effects of French-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer Frantz Fanon. Although the Martinique-born Afro-Caribbean writer's books have been very influential in the field...

Julia Kristeva - The Genius of Women / Julia ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

"There are three things worth doing in the world: to think, to heal and to write." This is an intellectual discussion about psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Julia Kristeva is a professor of the Institut Universitaire de Fr...

David Hume - The Quarrel with Rousseau / Caro...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

Performed by Caroline Binder as part of the 2013 edition of 'My Night with Philosophers'. In 1766, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume became friends. The friendship, though, quickly fell apart. As Hume sadly noted, its collap...

FRANÇOIS CUSSET: THE PROBLEM WITH THEORY / In...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Pilosophers, 2013. On issues such as gender, post-colonialism, social critique, or the cultural industry, ‘theory’ has been enjoying a renewed interest, and a great success, for quite a while now, as a sort of para-...

DESCARTES - LIVING WITH THE PASSIONS: / Micha...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

My Night with Philosophers, 2013. Descartes draws a very sharp distinction between mind and body, conceiving the mind as a purely immaterial entity that could exist separately from the body. But he also insists that the two are i...

The Life and Work of Jacques Derrida / Derrid...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

A lecture commemorating the life and work of one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida was born in 1930 in French Algeria. As a philosopher, his critique of Western philosophy and analyses of...

David Hume - The Quarrel with Rousseau / Caro...

Document audiovisuel | 2013

Performed by Caroline Binder as part of the 2013 edition of 'My Night with Philosophers'. In 1766, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume became friends. The friendship, though, quickly fell apart. As Hume sadly noted, its collap...

Julia Kristeva - The Genius of Women / Julia ...

Document audiovisuel | 2012

"There are three things worth doing in the world: to think, to heal and to write." This is an intellectual discussion about psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Julia Kristeva is a professor of the Institut Universitaire de Fr...

Vol. 1 Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézièr...

Document audiovisuel | 2017

2017

Vol. 2 Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézièr...

Document audiovisuel | 2017

2017

Michael Rosen on Emile Zola

Document audiovisuel | 2017

Beyond Words Festival: Michael Rosen on the Disappearance of Emile Zola Michael Rosen is a poet, broadcaster and former Children’s Laureate. Among the impressive list of books he has written, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) has ...

This Little Art: Kate Briggs and Daniel Hahn ...

Document audiovisuel | 2017

A Conversation with Kate Briggs and Daniel Hahn on Translation and 'This Little Art' With the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s essay is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, f...

The Bonjour Effect with Julie Barlow / Barlow...

Document audiovisuel | 2017

Canadian authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow have been travelling to Paris a lot over the last 10 years. Yet one important precept never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you spea...