Hello everyone,

The first issue of Libellio was published in November 2005. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, two consecutive issues

Paul Duguid wrote in the first issue of Libellio and agreed to contribute to the 20th anniversary issue with an important article on the subject of information. Three book reviews complement his text on the question of democracy, truth, and expertise: Democracy and Truth by Sophia Rosenfeld, The Weaponization of Expertise by Jacob H. Russell & Dennis Patterson, and How Literature Dies by Orwell.

Michel Villette returns to Walter Benjamin on the theme of the storyteller.

A new feature is devoted to Claude Riveline, with texts by Frédéric Kletz and Haïm Korsia, among others.

Jean-Michel Saussois brings an exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere back to life, while Corentin Curchod explores the complex relationship between England and Scotland, and our ethnology specialist, Camille Toussaint, takes us on a tour of the Hamburg Museum.

Conversing with a woman as beautiful as she is intelligent, reading (and rereading) Don Quixote, writing for pleasure and why not poetry, listening to music and even composing it, enjoying champagne and fine dining, being quietly atheist (perhaps the first to admit it), this issue ends in the select company of Monsieur de Saint-Évremond.

Thank you for your loyalty and enjoy reading,

The Libellio team

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Hello everyone,

Second issue of Libellio’s 20th anniversary edition

Xavier Lecocq, Benoît Demil, Vanessa Warnier, and Frédéric Garcias address the fundamental management issue of the means-ends relationship.

Regarding the plans for the Capitol in Washington, Richard Chenoweth looks back at the invention of topographic drawing.

Where is the line that separates humans from other forms of personality in the age of artificial intelligence? This is the subject of James Boyle’s acclaimed book.

Sobel Penone presents Robert Paxton’s book on fascism, and Guillaume Le Barbu presents Peter Burke’s book on ignorance.

An article pays tribute to Michel Callon and looks back at the famous scallops of Saint-Brieuc Bay.

Jean Michel Saussois questions the frequent comparison made between Goya and Manet.

Finally, mention is made of the colorful fairs that punctuated life in towns from the Middle Ages to the Revolution.

Many thanks to everyone who agreed to contribute to the two issues celebrating these twenty years.

Happy reading!

L’équipe du Libellio

 

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Ps. Some of you wondered what the cover illustration of the previous issue was. It is a portrait of Miguel de Unamuno by Manuel Gracia Gonzalez (1886), which hangs in the writer’s house in Salamanca.