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3-4/2008
Le temps des catastrophes [Catastrophic times]

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Summary / (en)

Esprit
When private turns public

LE TEMPS DES CATASTROPHES

CATASTROPHIC TIMES
Groupe 2040
Introduction. Penser les catastrophes
Introduction. Reflecting on catastrophes

CATASTROPHES EN SÉRIE

1. SERIAL CATASTROPHES

L'aveuglement au désastre. Le cas des crises financières (entretien)
Blind to disaster. The case of financial crises
An interview with André Orléan
Frédéric Worms
La grippe aviaire entre soin et politique. Une catastrophe annoncée ?
Avian flu between care and politics. A catastrophe foretold?
Frédéric Keck
Risques alimentaires et catastrophes sanitaires
Food hazards and health disasters
Frédéric Gros
Désastre humanitaire et sécurité humaine.Le troisième âge de la sécurité
Humanitarian disaster and human security. The third age of security
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Tchernobyl et l'invisibilité du mal
Chernobyl and the invisibility of evil

UN MONDE CATASTROPHIQUE ?

II. A WORLD OF CATASTROPHES?

Les ondes de choc de la Shoah (entretien)
Shock waves from the Shoah
An interview with Daniel Lindenberg
Jean-Louis Schlegel
L'eschatologie et l'apocalypse dans l'histoire : un bilan controversé
Eschatology and apocalypse in history: a controversial outcome
Andrew Lakoff
Pour qu'un désastre ne tourne pas à la catastrophe : jusqu'où sommes-nous prêts ?
Lest disaster turn to catastrophe: to what extent are we ready?
Barbara Villez
Comment vivre avec la catastrophe ? Une série télévisée : Lost
How does one live with catastrophe? A TV soap opera: "Lost."
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe
Paysage du monde d'" après ". Lecture de quelques mangas de science-fiction
A vision of the world "after". On reading sci-fi mangas
Antoine Garapon
La lutte antiterroriste et le tournant préventif de la justice
Fighting terrorism, or when the judiciary lurches on the side of prevention
Benoît Pélopidas
De l'incrédulité à l'action
From disbelief to action

ARTICLES

FEATURE ARTICLES
Olivier Mongin
De l'hyperprésident à l'hypoprésident. Entre représentation médiatique et représentation politique : le grand cafouillage
From hyper- to hypo-president: Sarkozy's big mix-up between the media and the political scenes
Annick Jamart
Belgique, un séparatisme qui ne dit pas son nom ?
Belgium: is this separatism in all but name?
Stéphane Mosès
Judaïsme, modernité normative et modernité critique
Normative modernity, critical modernity and Judaism

JOURNAL

DONZELOT Jacques.
Une nouvelle politique pour les banlieues ?
MONGIN Olivier.
Le rapport Attali pour la libération de la croissance. Pourquoi une telle incompréhension ?
MARIAN Michel.
Grogne à droite, cacophonie à gauche : une chance au centre
ROCARD Michel.
Commission sur le métier d'enseignant : un cas de disinformation
FOURCADE Michel.
Le président et la laïcité
TREMOIS Claude-Marie.
Dans la vie, de Philippe Faucon
LINDENBERG Daniel.
Christian Bourgois (1933-2007)

REPÈRES
COUP DE SONDE

HUBRECHT Joël.
Un tribunal au bord du bilan. Le jugement des crimes de la guerre en ex-Yougoslavie

LIBRAIRIE

FŒSSEL Michaël.
Hans Blumenberg : la Lisibilité du monde
LE BIHAN Adrien.
Antoni Serra : 36, rue de l'Argenterie
BRESSLER Sylvie.
Sandor Marai : Libération
DOMENACH Élise.
Michel Estève : Un cinéma humaniste


 

Focal points

European histories

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories.html
For solidarity to exist in the enlarged EU, an historical awareness must be developed that includes the experiences of new members. [more]

Media landscapes: Central and eastern Europe

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/medialandscapes.html
How Media autonomy in Europe's "newer democracies" is being inhibited by market forces and continuing political intervention. [more]

The malady of infinite aspiration?

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/financialcrisis.html
Sound in principle or sick at heart? Articles on the financial crisis, compiled under Durkheim's memorable phrase, "the malady of infinite aspiration". [more]

Editor's choice

Laurent Mauriac, Pascal Riché
Online journalism: Transposition or transformation?

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-05-22-mauriacriche-en.html
The editors of the pioneering French politics website explain their concept for bridging the gap between print and the Internet. [more]

Literature

Andrea Zlatar
Literary perspectives: Croatia
Post-traumatic stress disorder

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-03-31-zlatar-en.html
Common to new Croatian writing is the postwar experience, with marginal characters exploring tensions between individual and society. [more]

Katharina Raabe
The read expanse

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-04-16-raabe-de.html
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settling over the historical expanses of eastern central Europe. [more]

Conferences

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. In the meantime, approximately 100 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings.
European histories
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/vilnius_european_histories.html
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 to 11 May 2009. Under the heading "European Histories", the Eurozine conference explored the role of history and memory in forming new identities in a Europe in change. [more]