Ecology & Political Ecology
Belief is not a state of mind, but a result of the relationships between peoples; this has been known since Montaigne. The visitor knows, the visited believes; or quite the opposite, the visitor knew...
Supposons que Karl Marx ait publié LE CAPITAL et que personne n’y ait prêté attention. Un siècle après on redécouvrirait ce livre et l’on resterait stupéfait devant l’ampleur et l’audace d’une œuvre...
A joint lecture with Peter Sloterdijk to explore the two concepts of “sphere » and of “network”, the paper (in line with 112) shows that there is only an apparent contradiction between the two...
Nordhaus and Shellenberger’s book has somewhat infuriated their fellow conservationists, but it tackles just the right set of philosophical questions about the psycho social limis to be put on the...
The extension of ecological crisis have also extended the need for a politics of science. To the point where the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ sciences has become moot : it might be more...
This paper explores the destiny of political ecology. It is very much influenced by the French political situation and the continuing marginality of the various Green parties. It relies on three...
Cosmopolitism is one of the great traditions in political philosophy, human rights and international law. There is however, a much more recent and small interest in cosmo-politics, as exemplified by...
We are all familiar with the notion of rules of methods which have been devised for scientific experiments. What I have chosen to explore is a rather new question who has only recently come to the...
Initially written as a lecture at the French Institute for the lauching of SPEAP in London, in November 2011.
There is no single institution able to cover, oversee, dominate, manage, handle, or...
In the framework of the Gifford Lectures, BL will give six lectures on what the new entity called Gaia - a complex mixture of mythical, spiritual and scientific characters - does to the political...
