Journal issue

Force without law

Esprit
2025/5 May


176 pages

Presentation

The second Trump administration is making the international order, the law and judges its main targets, claiming to usher in a new post-liberal era. This issue, edited by Anne-Lorraine Bujon and Antoine Garapon, rejects this vision of a world ruled by force. Also in this issue: Algeria-France: reflections on a crisis; The time of solitude; Sayyid Qutb, Muslim Brother and European reactionary?; Between extasis and alienation. Simone Weil's degrees of attention.

Table of contents

Journal article

Front matter

Editorial

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Existential conflicts

Chorus

Journal article

Who remembers Batak?

Journal article

Algeria-France: reflections on a crisis.

Journal article

Erdogan takes a hard line.

Journal article

What strategy to resist Trump?

Journal article

Let’s not let the policy of ecological transition unravel.

Force without law

Journal article

Force without law

Introduction

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Law in America: A worrying refeudalization.

Une reféodalisation inquiétante

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A passion for immediacy. Can democracy do without forms?

La démocratie peut-elle se passer des formes ?

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The Great Grab.

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The end of international aid?

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Trump, Europe and China. The endless death of the end of history.

La mort sans fin de la fin de l’histoire

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Code versus law.

Varia

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The time of solitude.

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Sayyid Qutb, Muslim Brother and European reactionary ?

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Between ecstasy and alienation. Simone Weil’s degrees of attention.

Les degrés de l’attention chez Simone Weil

Cultures

Chronicles

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History

A kingdom of ghosts.

History

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When walls speak.

Reviews

Book review

Seul le temps nous appartient. Pierre Caye. Verdier, 2024, 256 p., €18.80

Book review

Habiter l'utopie. Walter Benjamin architecte. Anne Roche. Chemin de ronde, 2025, 352 p., €25

Book review

Pour en finir avec le petit Paris. Edited by Alexandre Bertrand. Archicity, 2024, 388 p., €28

Book review

Introduction à Bernard Charbonneau. Patrick Chastenet. La Découverte, 2024, 128 p., €11

Book review

Les institutions invisibles. Pierre Rosanvallon. Seuil, 2024, 336 p., €23.50

Book review

Giovanni Falcone. Roberto Saviano Translated by Laura Brignon. Gallimard, 2025, 608 p., €25

Book review

Quand les travailleurs sabotaient. France, États-Unis (1897-1918). Dominique Pinsolle Agone, 2024, 480 p., $25

Book review

Le tchékiste. Vladimir Zazoubrine Translated by Wladimir Berelowitch. Christian Bourgois, 2025, 192 p., $12

Book review

Braconnages. Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker Translated by Olivier Le Lay. Gallimard, 2024, 368 p., $23.90

Le Champ. Josef Winckler. Translated by Bernard Banoun. Verdier, 2024, 224 p., €20.50

Book review

Le monde de demain. Une Europe souveraine et démocratique – et ses ennemis. Robert Menasse. Translated by Olivier Mannoni. Verdier, 2025, 224 p., €12.50

Book review

La « Révolution nationale » en 100 jours, et comment l'éviter. Pierre-Yves Bocquet. Gallimard, 2025, 64 p., €3.50

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Authors

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Back matter


Publication date: 04/29/2025

Uploaded: 05/19/2025

ISBN 9782372343343