Jean Michel: 591 books

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world—of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian...

L’histoire d’une seule région aurait-elle conditionné celle de la terre entière ? Dans ce carnet de facéties et badinages les faits relatés se montrent extravagants, mais ils résistent à l’actualité, dans une même vérité : de très anciennes sociétés secrètes, honorant...

Journaliste baroudeur, ex-otage au Liban, homme de réseaux, ambassadeur en Érythrée, Roger Auque a eu plusieurs vies, mêlant services secrets, amitiés politiques et négociations occultes. Emporté par une tumeur au cerveau en septembre 2014, il avait choisi, avant son décès, de se confier...

À son existence maudite de voyant, de voyou, de météore, Une saison en enfer semblait lancer un dernier adieu. La fête était finie. Avec les Illuminations, Rimbaud, à vingt ans, écrit le dernier acte de son " opéra fabuleux ", le plus énigmatique. En fixant ses délires et ses vertiges,...

In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann...

The decade since the publication of Jean-Michel Rabaté's controversial manifesto The Future of Theory saw important changes in the field. The demise of most of the visible French or German philosophers, who had produced texts that would trigger new debates, then to be processed by Theory, has led...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology....

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad...

Le transhumanisme est un mouvement technico-scientifique international qui prétend augmenter à l'infini les performances physiques et mentales de l'être humain.  Aujourd'hui vous pouvez déjà faire séquencer votre ADN en une journée, pour, peut-être un jour, le réparer, tandis qu'Internet...

" De la musique avant toute chose. " C'est dans sa prison de Belgique que Verlaine proclame les dogmes et les ruses de son " Art poétique ", le fameux poème de Jadis et naguère. À cette époque, du fond de sa débauche et de sa déchéance, il rêve de sagesse et d'harmonie,...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining...

Should we enhance the human condition with technology? Does anyone really want to live for a thousand years? Could AI end up destroying mankind? Discover the incredible potential of mankind's near future as Doctor and entrepreneur Laurent Alexandre and tech-philosopher Jean Michel Besnier...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the...

Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira: Their Correspondence and Contextincludes 45 letters Melanie Klein wrote to the Swiss psychoanalyst Marcelle Spira between 1955 and 1960, as well as six rough drafts from Spira. They were discovered in Spira’s library after her death in 2006. As only a few of the...