Descartes and equality

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Presentation

“How can generosity be acquired”

industry, institutions, and equality in Descartes

Transforming the World through cartesian metaphysics

Revolution in the good sense of the term according to Victor Cousin

Descartes and the problem of scientific collaboration

Gender equality, an idea absent from Cartesian thought?

Equality of nature, diversity of conditions: Descartes versus Bourdieu

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Historical introduction from piecework payment to salaried employment

Outsourcing and intensification of employee work

Working time control and resistance in home help

“RTT” and intensification of work for executives at the turn of the century

From the long time of diplomas to the expiry of skills

Reduction of school pace: the hidden logic

A typology of private non-contractual educational institutions

The educational ideologies of private institutions outside the contract

Louis Rouquayrol, Découvrir Descartes, Éditions sociales, Paris, 2024, 176 p., €12.

René Descartes, Œuvres, edited by Jean-Marie Beyssade, Paris, Gallimard, coll. “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade,” box set, 2 vols., 2024, €152.

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