De ce pamphlet publié pour la première fois à Londres en 1870, probablement de manière clandestine, on ne sait presque rien. Auteur ? Date ? Le mystère reste entier.
Il nous apprend les formes du despotisme, des plus violentes aux plus insidieuses. Si pour le tyran "la société est une proie", il sait isoler, corrompre voire travestir son joug en liberté. La complicité, la nécessité ou la peur font le reste. Sidéré, on est saisi par ces fulgurances si actuelles :
"Il est plus facile d'organiser le silence que la liberté." "Chacun sentant qu'il est tenu d'obéir, méprise chez les autres l'humiliation que lui-même il subit." Avec le sentiment troublant de l'interdit, on se glisse dans ce texte brut qui bouillonne, esquissé furtivement par un esprit libre et révolté.
20 janvier 2009 : Barack Obama devient officiellement président des États-Unis. Des millions de personnes assistent à cette cérémonie légendaire.
10 janvier 2017 : Obama quitte la Maison-Blanche après deux mandats historiques. Il prononce alors son dernier discours officiel, des mots empreints de son immense charisme et de grands moments d'émotion. Récession économique, guerre, terrorisme, mais aussi relance industrielle, Obamacare, accords de Paris...
Quelques jours plus tôt, Michelle Obama fermait elle aussi sa parenthèse de première dame et rappelait avec vigueur et humour ses combats pour l'éducation et la jeunesse.
Assignée à résidence depuis les années 1990, persécutée par la junte militaire au pouvoir en Birmanie, Aung San Suu Kyi, prix Nobel de la paix en 1991, continue de prôner la non-violence.
C'est dans les fondements du bouddhisme qu'elle puise son énergie politique : pour elle, la libération du peuple passe par une révolution des esprits. Moins d'un siècle plus tôt, en 1906, Trotsky justifiait la nécessité d'une insurrection armée pour lutter contre un Etat par nature violent. Ainsi s'opposent deux visions de la révolution, deux stratégies pour servir un même but : l'émancipation des peuples.
Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson''s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.
Underlying everything in the book is Johnson''s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future.
From trouncing Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race in 2008 to becoming prime minister, he takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and the reasons he took them. The challenges and crises, how they were resolved - or not - and how he nearly died from Covid. Riots, knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics and so much more. He writes about his role in Brexit and the constitutional sea-change that took place in British politics in 2019 - with his landslide election victory and the massive expansion in the groups that think of themselves as Conservative.
This is the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, uncensored, unleashed.
Why did Putin launch Operation Z in Ukraine? Are Ukrainian forces using neo-Nazi volunteers? What is the reality of the military conflict over the past six months? What do we know about war crimes like Bucha? Have Western economic sanctions actually worked? Has the massive shipment of weapons by the West had an effect on the conflict?
After the best-seller, Putin, Master of the Game? which was praised worldwide, Jacques Baud returns in this book to the root causes of the war in Ukraine and reveals the real and hidden reasons that pushed Vladimir Putin to intervene on February 24, 2022. Using information from intelligence services and official reports, Baud analyzes the course of the military actions and the way they were interpreted in the West. He explains the political and economic disruption of the world order, as well as the long-term consequences on our daily lives caused by Western sanctions against Russia. Baud then explains how the conflict could have been avoided and which options were purposely avoided by the United States and Europe. This is a tell-all book that must be read by everyone-because, whether we realize it or not, we are all being affected by the war in Ukraine.
Le Messager de Hesse est l'un des pamphlets les plus célèbres de l'histoire révolutionnaire allemande. Imprimé pour la première fois à Offenbach (Hesse), en juillet 1834, ce texte d'une extrême violence contre l'ordre en place de la Restauration a été distribué la nuit, à travers la campagne hessoise, par des bandes de jeunes garçons, au péril de leur vie. Ses deux auteurs : Georg Büchner et le pasteur Weidig.
Depuis la résolution des Nations unies sur le partage de la Palestine et la proclamation de la création d'un Etat juif par David Ben Gourion en 1948, le Proche-Orient n'a jamais trouvé la paix.
Pourtant, au début des années 1990, la main tendue de Yasser Arafat, qui reconnaît, de fait, l'existence de l'État d'Israël, et la réponse d'Itzhak Rabin laissent entrevoir la possibilité d'un accord de paix. L'espoir est de courte durée : le discours de paix de Rabin sera son dernier, et l'Autorité palestinienne représentée par Arafat sera affaiblie par les luttes internes et les pressions politico-militaires israéliennes.
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric.
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse . She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office , including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
A first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for regifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favourite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to explain Donald Trump's lethal flaws . Mary Trump has the education, insight and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider's perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world's most powerful and dysfunctional families.
In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.
Ce livre constitue la deuxième partie du dernier tome de la tétralogie Penser avec Marx aujourd'hui du philosophe Lucien Sève, disparu en 2020 alors qu'il travaillait à la finition de son grand oeuvre. Cette deuxième partie aborde de front la question communiste au XXIe siècle, nouveau en drames et menaces comme en possibilités politiques et promesses d'émancipation. On trouvera dans cet ultime livre à la fois une discussion critique de thèses récentes sur le communisme (par exemple d'Alain Badiou, d'Étienne Balibar, de Bernard Friot, d'Isabelle Garo), une analyse des enjeux, notamment écologiques et anthropologiques, et une poursuite de l'explication et de l'actualisation de la « pensée Marx ».
''A political epic'' - Guardian
''This is the book Trump fears most.'' - Axios
Few journalists have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few better understand the polarizing 45th president or his motivations. In this astonishing, illuminating book, Haberman reveals all about Trump the man, the president and the phenomenon.
Interviews with hundreds of sources and with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture for decades, laying the groundwork to galvanize support for a successful run for high office.
Chronicling Trump''s entire career, from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and potential comeback, Confidence Man is a magnificent, disturbing reckoning of the president who pushed American democracy to the brink.
** The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones 'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo , The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything , scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. 'This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.' Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. That extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it. 'Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read' Michael Stipe 'Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis 'Magnificent ... a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and discipline, and explains why promises made under force ought not to be kept.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.
GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
#1 New York Times Bestseller A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. "Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present." -- The New York Times
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont l'ensemble des pays ont justement fait l'expérience de régimes socialistes, a fait l'objet d'une attention particulière. Les rapports de l'Afrique avec l'URSS, les démocraties populaires, Cuba, la Chine, ou encore Israël sont également abordés. Les communications faites dans les colloques ont été repensées, avec pour résultat un fructueux dialogue avec les auteur.e.s et des articles complémentaires. Les auteurs espèrent ainsi donner à l'étude des socialismes africains une légitimité dans le champ plus général de l'histoire des socialismes, de même que dans celui de celle de la guerre froide.
This volume is intended to be a state of international research on African socialisms. It brings together articles dealing with theoretical debates about socialism in Africa and its intellectual sources, but also very concrete experiences of socialism, both in cities and in the countryside: cooperatives, neighborhood committees, re-education camps, etc... Particular attention was paid to the situation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, the poor relation of African studies in France, and whose countries as a whole have precisely experienced socialist regimes. Africa's relations with the USSR, the People's Democracies, Cuba, China, and Israel were also discussed. For the sake of coherence, the papers given in the colloquia have been rethought in a fruitful dialogue with the authors and complementary articles have been requested... In this way, it is hoped to give legitimacy to the study of African socialisms in the more general field of the history of socialism, as well as in that of the Cold War.
From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move and inspire today. 'Impeccable. MacArthur prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that sets the scene perfectly. An attractive volume' Andrew Roberts, Sunday Times 'Works well not just as an anthology but as a history' Independent on Sunday
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor''Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind''s ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth-century workers to today''s activists.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.>
Le mot "néolibéralisme" renvoie assez souvent au Chili. Pour toute une génération, le traumatisme du coup d'Etat de 1973 ne met pas simplement fin au rêve porté par le président Salvador Allende, et à "la voie chilienne au socialisme" : l'intervention militaire enclenche aussi la mise en oeuvre de mesures néolibérales sur le continent latino-américain, et plus généralement à l'échelle mondiale. Mais de quoi parle-t-on lorsque l'on affirme que le Chili est un pays "néolibéral"? Depuis 40 ans, la question ne cesse d'alimenter réflexions et débats au sein des sciences sociales comme de la sphère publique des articles en Français et en Espagnol.
Cet ouvrage fait partie du projet de traduction en langue arabe des ÉCRITS POLITIQUES de Jean-Jacques Rousseau par Abdesselam Cheddadi.
Il comprend ses 3 premiers écrits politiques qui sont "Discours sur les sciences et les arts", "Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes" et "Discours sur l'économie politique".
In dit boek analyseren auteurs van verschillende universiteiten (ULB, VUB, KU Leuven, UCLouvain, en Universiteit Antwerpen) op basis van de verkiezingsenquête REPRESENT het stemgedrag en de politieke voorkeuren en attitudes van de Belgische burger. Bij de verkiezingen van 2019 verstuurde de kiezer een sterk politiek signaal. Een groot aantal kiezers koos ervoor om op radicale partijen te stemmen (Vlaams Belang, PTB-PVDA). Het succes van deze partijen schudde niet alleen het politieke landschap door elkaar, maar maakte van de regionale en vooral de federale regeringsvorming een steeds complexere puzzel. Deze plotse veranderingen zijn slechts één van de gevolgen van de stembusgang voor de federale, regionale en Europese verkiezingen van 26 mei 2019. In dit boek analyseren auteurs van verschillende universiteiten (ULB, VUB, KU Leuven, UCLouvain, en Universiteit Antwerpen) op basis van de verkiezingsenquête REPRESENT het stemgedrag en de politieke voorkeuren en attitudes van de Belgische burger. Deze analyses laten toe om meer inzicht te krijgen in de logica die achter deze verkiezingen schuilging, wat toelaat lessen te trekken om de werking van de Belgische democratie beter te begrijpen.
"Helmut Schmid is one of the finest typographers worldwide." - Designculture.
The Austrian typographer and graphic designer Helmut Schmid (1942-2018) was acknowledged globally as a master of his craft. Schmid put his own spin on Emil Ruder's teachings while remaining faithful to his principles of clarity, simplicity and elegance. Living in Osaka, Vancouver and Germany (where he worked for the German Social Democratic Party and the German chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt), Schmid merged Eastern and Western influences in his editorial design, product packaging, political and corporate visual identity. This bilingual monograph explores the typographer's oeuvre in its entirety. The book's generous design allows each image to breathe; accompanying texts narrate Schmid's life and career in an informative but pleasant manner. Complementing the publications Weingart: Typography and Ruder Typography, Ruder Philosophy, Schmid Typography completes Lars Müller Publishers' surveys of the Basel school of typographic thought.
Par-delà l'idée d'un chemin électoral vers la démocratie et des muta- tions institutionnelles mises en place depuis les années 1900, on constate que les logiques familiales dans l'accès aux positions et ressources du pouvoir font toujours sens et restent logées au coeur des trajectoires socio-historiques de l'État et des modes de transfert du pouvoir dans les sociétés africaines. Elles continuent d'alimenter les relations de loyautés et d'allégeances politiques, ainsi que le renouvellement du personnel politique.
Ce dossier interroge les registres émotionnels dans lesquels s'expriment les rapports de domination dans les sociétés africaines contemporaines. Cette politique des affects permet de voir comment l'univers politique est dominé par un langage de séduction mobilisant et manipulant les registres émotionnels de la famille et de la parenté.
Ce numéro entend donc restituer les logiques originales de production de la famille comme lieu du politique que ce soit en termes d'énonciation, de représentations ou de pratiques. Les contributions soulignent combien l'imbrication entre famille et politique prévaut dans de nombreuses régions, tant en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, en Europe, en Asie, que dans les États arabes ou qu'en Afrique, afin d'aban- donner les préjugés concernant les sociétés perçues comme ayant des familles « archaïques » ou des politiques « exotiques ».
