Birth and history of the newspaper
Ten percent to 12% of Sciences Po students choose to become journalists. Journalism occupies a predominant place in contemporary societies, a “fourth power”. Alexis de Tocqueville in 1833 already identified …
Tag: democracy
Corrected subject – “Dogmatic beliefs” – Tocqueville, On Democracy in America
This subject notably fell in the philosophy test of the 2015 French baccalaureate. See all the exam questions of the 2015 French baccalaureate. Dogmatic beliefs are more or less numerous, …
Summary of Chapter I – What is property? – Proudhon, 1840
Objective of the book, What is property? From the beginning of what is property, published in 1840, Proudhon starts from the thesis that he intends to demonstrate: property is theft. …
What is totalitarianism?
Totalitarianism in the 20th century What is totalitarianism? Several authors and books have sought to define totalitarianism: —Giovani Amendola in an article published in Il Mondo on May 12, 1923, …
For François Guizot, the vice of France was the contempt of work
“If I had to investigate what was the deepest evil, the most disastrous vice of this ancient society which dominated France until the sixteenth century, I would say without hesitation …
History sheet III. 2. The crisis of liberal democracies
III. From one war to another (1914–1939) 2. The crisis of the liberal democracies → The colonial system —the domination of empires (legacies, organization of empires, societies within empires) – …
