CEFRES Review of Books – June 2017

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

CEFRES Review of Books

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

CEFRES Review of Books

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!

“The Spirit of the Laws”. Presentation of the Czech translation

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 FořtováPraha, OIKOYMENH, 2015, 584 s. Continue reading “The Spirit of the Laws”. Presentation of the Czech translation

CEFRES Review of Books

To celebrate the end of the year and gather our readers in the brand new library of CEFRES at Na Florenci 3, we are happy to offer a last encounter around some of the

newest publications in France in the social sciences and humanities!

It will give us the opportunity to better present and discuss the current French editorial landscape through this new review of books, which will be from now on held twice a year, before Winter and Summer holidays.

Reviews (preferably in English or Czech) will be published on CEFRES blog www.cefres.hypotheses.org.

The following books will be presented (in French):

  • Jean-Hugues BARTHELEMY: Simondon (Belles Lettres) – by Lara Bonneau
  • Patrick BOUCHERON : L’entretemps (Verdier) – by Eloïse Adde
  • Luc BOLTANSKI : Enigmes et complots (Gallimard) – by Gwendal Piégais
  • Marc FUMAROLI : La République des lettres (Gallimard) – by Edita Wolf
  • Emmanuel FUREIX, François JARRIGE : Modernité désenchantée (La Découverte) – by Mátyás Erdelyi
  • Albert OGIEN, Sandra LAUGIER : Le principe démocratie (La Découverte) – by Jana Vargovčíková
  • Michel WIEVIORKA, Retour au sens (R. Laffont) by Nicolas Maslowski
  • Caroline ZUM KOLK (dir.) et al. : Voyageurs étrangers à la cour de France (Presses U. de Rennes) – by Zdeněk Hojda

See the latest acquisitions of the library.

Please confirm in advance your participation in this latest meeting of CEFRES before the end of the year! Contact the organizers: Lara Bonneau or Claire Madl.