The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 14 December at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
So far, the following presentations are announced:
– Luc BOLTANSKI, Arnaud ESQUERRE : Enrichissement. une critique de la marchandise (Gallimard), by Mihai-Dan Cîrjan
– Christophe CHARLE, Laurent JEANPIERRE : La vie intellectuelle en France (Seuil), by Tomáš Nakladal
– Christian INGRAO : La promesse de l’Est (Seuil), by David Emler
– Sarah MAZOUZ : La république et ses autres (ENS Editions), by Florence Vychytil-Baudoux
– Michel OFFERLÉ : La profession politique (Belin), by Michel Perottino
– Jean-Claude SCHMITT : Les rythmes au Moyen Age, by Paul-Antoine Méteier
– Catherine SERVANT (dir.) : Les héritages culturels du XIXe siècle sous les régimes communistes. (Publications des Langues O éd.), by Petr Kyloušek
You can peruse and download the list of the library’s latest acquisitions and book a book at the following address: claire@cefres.cz.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3
Language: French
The fourth edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 1 June at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
The following books will be presented:
– Barbara CASSIN : Eloge de la traduction. Compliquer l’universel (Fayard) , by Edita Wolf
– Alain CORBIN, Georges VIGARELLO (dir.) : Histoire des émotions. 2 vol. (Seuil), by Ondřej Švec
– Kaoutar HARCHI : Je n’ai qu’une langue, ce n’est pas la mienne (Pauvert), by Alžběta Stančáková
– Dominique LESTEL : À quoi sert l’homme ? (Fayard), by Marc Palenicek
– Olivier REY : Quand le monde s’est fait nombre (Stock), by Mátyás Erdélyi
– Ayse YUVA : Transformer le monde ? (la Maison des sciences de l’homme), by Hana Fořtová
– Claire ZALC : Dénaturalisés. Les retraits de nationalité sous Vichy (Seuil), by Florence Vychytil
You can peruse and download the list of the library’s latest acquisitions and book a book at the following address: claire@cefres.cz.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3
Language: French
The third edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Wednesday 5 December at 5:30 at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.
This informal meeting, which gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing, will give an opportunity for celebrating the beginning of the year. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
The following books will be presented:
Jacques BOUVERESSE: Nietzsche contre Foucault (Argone éd.) by Petr Horák
Catherine KLEIN-GOUSSEF: Échanger les peuples (Fayard) by Florence Vychytil
Jean-Jacques NATTIEZ: Wagner antisémite (Bourgois) by Josef Fulk
M. RIOT-SARCEY: Le procès de la liberté. Histoire souterraine du XIXe (La Découverte) by Hana Fořtová
Gisèle SAPIRO: Les contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale (Nouveau Monde éd.) by Chiara Mengozzi
Christian TOPALOV: Histoires d’enquêtes (Classiques Garnier) by Mátyás Erdélyi
You can peruse and download the list of the library’s latest acquisitions and book a book at the following address: claire@cefres.cz.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3
Language: French
To celebrate the end of the semester and gather our readers in the library of CEFRES at Na Florenci 3 before the Summer break, we invite our readers to share about the
newest publications in France in the social sciences and humanities!
Will be presented on Thursday, June 23rd:
- Donation GRAU : Néron en Occident (Gallimard) by Edita Wolf
- Georges MINK : La Pologne au cœur de l’Europe (Libella) by Ludovic Schlosser
- Pierre MONTEBELLO : L’autre métaphysique (Presses du réel) by Lara Bonneau
- Dominique PESTRE (dir.) : Histoire des sciences et des savoirs. II, Modernité et globalisation (Seuil) by Mátyás Erdélyi
- N. ROUSSELIER : La force de gouverner. Le pouvoir exécutif en France, XIXe-XXIe s (Gallimard) by Michel Perottino
- Jacques de SAINT-VICTOR : Blasphème (Gallimard) by Hana Fořtová
- D. SKOPIN : La photographie de groupe et la politique de la disparition dans la Russie de Staline (L’Harmattan) by Françoise Mayer
The Review aims at better presenting and discussing the current French editorial landscape. Reviews are then published on CEFRES blog www.cefres.hypotheses.org or in other magazines.
Check here our latest acquisitions!
Hana Fořtová presents her Czech translation of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the laws at the CEFRES library, on the occasion of the publication of the last volume by Oikoymenh publisher.
The first scientific edition of this major text of the European thought gives way for the Czech audience to Montesquieu’s notes and to a contemporary critical commentary .
Montesquieu, O duchu zákonů II., Obrana Ducha zákonů ; přeložila a poznámkami opatřila Hana Fořtová, Praha, OIKOYMENH, 2015, 584 s. Continue reading “The Spirit of the Laws”. Presentation of the Czech translation →
From Wednesday 23 December 2015 to Sunday 3 January 2016, the library will be closed to the public. You can mail us to the following address: Claire@cefres.cz.
