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Auteur Catherine Porter |
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How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France’s foremost historians. ..texte imprimé
Tzvetan Todorov, Auteur ; Catherine Porter, Traducteur | Cambridge : Harvard University Press | 1993How can we think about people and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the 18th century this v[...]texte imprimé
Gilles Lipovetsky, Auteur ; Catherine Porter, Traducteur | New Jersey : Princeton University Press | New French Thought | 1994The author argues that with the haute couture in decline, with multiculturalism and dissolving social classes, we are increasinlgy prompted to acquire things for our private uses, without reference to other people. We buy a VCR not to impress si[...]texte imprimé
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His [...]