Contenu du sommaire : Pratiques du séminaire

Mises's New York University Seminar (1948-1969). The clandestine migration of Austrian liberalism in the United StatesThe subject of this article is the weekly seminar taught by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises at New York University from 1948 to 1969. Examining both the content of ideas presented by Mises as well as the form of relationships established between students and teacher, and between students themselves, it aims at assessing the dual role played by this teaching experience in the constitution of an Austro-American school of economics, and in the formation of the libertarian movement.

The elementary structures of sociability. Raymond Aron's seminars and the genesis of the liberal movement (1955-1978)This article focuses on R. Aron's two seminars, the first of which was held at the Sorbonne between 1956 and 1967, the second at the EPHE between 1968 and 1977. From a perspective of studying liberalism “from below”, he seeks to reflect the formation of an Aronian movement that unites behind a liberal label a group of intellectuals from diverse backgrounds. This process can only be understood by contextualizing these seminars, the first taking place in an academic moment of Aron's trajectory, the second unfolding in a more political moment of it. The gap between the two corresponds, on the academic level, to Aron's resignation from the Sorbonne, and on the political level, to May 1968. This movement will carry two reviews, Contrepoint and Commentaire, which played a role in the “anti-totalitarian turn”, as well as being carried by them.

Seminar as a Transitional Organizational Collective. The Case of the Aftalion Seminar in economics (1963-1974)This article takes the seminary as an object from a social history of disciplines perspective. It is based on an important seminar of the French economic science in a context of autonomization of the discipline vis-a-vis the law in universities. It shows that the seminar is then an academic tool for a career. However, the importance of this seminar is not limited to this dimension. It is based on a research program that will serve as a basis for the critical economy of the following decades. Its organization as well as the participants and their trajectories contribute to the success of this collective enterprise which is a transition from a research organization to the laboratory.

Seminar as a Transitional Organizational Collective. The Case of the Aftalion Seminar in economics (1963-1974)This article takes the seminary as an object from a social history of disciplines perspective. It is based on an important seminar of the French economic science in a context of autonomization of the discipline vis-a-vis the law in universities. It shows that the seminar is then an academic tool for a career. However, the importance of this seminar is not limited to this dimension. It is based on a research program that will serve as a basis for the critical economy of the following decades. Its organization as well as the participants and their trajectories contribute to the success of this collective enterprise which is a transition from a research organization to the laboratory.

An underground production of political ideas. Marxists seminars in the 1980's
The 1980's are traditionally described, regarding to the history of political ideas, as the collapse of the revolutionary hopes driven by marxisms. This paper intends to defend the idea that if this statement is globally true, it has to be qualified. Indeed, the analyses of various marxists seminars held in the 1980's at the University of Nanterre, of Paris VIII or at the College Internationale de Philosophie is particulary relevant to grasp how the 1980s were a moment marxist ideas' replenishment. Indeed, while it is becoming difficult to publish political books, the shift of the analytic scale from global production to seminars allows us to understand the renewals and hybridizations of marxist tradition. Mingling archives and interview, this article also wants to describe the orality of these seminars.

Toward a Communicative Theory of Society. Jürgen Habermas's and Jean-Marc Ferry's Seminars as a Building Conceptual DeviceThis article focuses on the role of the research seminar in the development of the communicative theory of society supported by Habermas and Ferry. Contrasting Habermas's seminars in the early 1970s and the Ferry's Seminars in the early 2010s, this article shows that the historical context have a great influence on the way of acting and thinking of the philosopher. Nevertheless, the Seminar appears as a place of elaboration and stabilization of the thought allowing the historians of ideas to light up partially the making of philosophy. The Seminar is also a place of socialization to a theoretical school and a distribution channel for this intellectual tradition in relation to the changing imperative driving the academic field.

An interview with John Dun
This interview with John Dunn is intended to present to the french public one major British political analyst whose work is so badly known in our country. After a brief reminder of his career, Dunn is invited to express himself on his method in history of the ideas, the way he questions the politics and his last works about the democracy in the world.

Another story of constituent power. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the question of visibility
In his movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford shows how a democratic community constitutes itself, and the way it recollects this constitution. We will show that the secret of the event of a founding can be found in an intermittence between visibility and invisibility, in a necessity both to show and to hide it, to know and to ignore it. Ford thus builds a new conception of constituent power, one that could only be illustrated with such effectiveness through a movie.