Alexandre Lefebvre
Biographic Data
| ID | 174171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandre Lefebvre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandre |
| FAMILY NAME | Lefebvre |
| SIGNATURE | LEFEBVRE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7154-9381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Les sites de la Peyzie (Lisle, Dordogne). Une histoire en construction
Bien qu’aujourd’hui largement méconnue, la corniche rocheuse de la Peyzie s’inscrit pourtant dans l’histoire de l’archéologie préhistorique locale. Localisée dans la moyenne vallée de la Dronne (Dordogne), à proximité de sites de renom comme Pont d’Ambon ou le Fourneau du Diable, elle a livré plusieurs grottes dont l’une (Peyzie I) fut fouillée dès les années 1930 par Paul-Émile Jude alors en quête d’une première expérience de fouille. Menées dan…
Reconciling community-level responses of wild bees to highly anthropized landscapes
Chapitre 14. Les outils actifs tranchants en roches tenaces
Sont traités, dans cette partie, les éléments en roches tenaces, bruts ou retouchés, dotés d’un dièdre ayant pu servir à découper, trancher ou encore racler toute matière d’œuvre.Dans un premier temps notre analyse tracéologique s’est appuyée sur un référentiel expérimental récent portant sur les quartzites du Sud-Ouest de la France (Claud et al. 2018–2019), aucune donnée de référence n’étant, à notre connaissance, disponible sur la dolérite.Nous…
Stanley Cavell, John Rawls and moral perfectionism in liberal democracy
John Rawls was what we might call a “frenemy” to Stanley Cavell. Time and again, Cavell states his admiration for Rawls's political philosophy but criticizes it for two reasons. First, he believes that Rawls too hastily dismisses a perfectionist tradition that is essential for a flourishing liberal democracy. Second, he attacks certain aspects of Rawls's theory of justice as moralistic and legalistic. The first half of this article examines Cavel…
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls
In this article I interpret John Rawls’s concept of the original position as a spiritual exercise. In addition to the standard interpretation of the original position as an expository device to select principles of justice for the fundamental institutions of society, I argue that Rawls also envisages it as a “spiritual exercise”: a voluntary personal practice intended to bring about a transformation of the self. To make this argument, I draw on t…
Three Reasons for Hospitality: Care for Others, Care for the World, and Care of the Self
We seek to answer a deceptively simple question: why do private citizens in liberal democracies offer hospitality to undocumented migrants? Through qualitative interviews with French citizens, we propose three reasons. The first is widely recognized in the scholarly literature: hospitality is offered out of a care and concern for vulnerable and precarious migrants. However, we uncover two additional reasons that are not acknowledged in studies on…
The Subject of Human Rights
Dix mille ans de peuplement humain sur le versant nord des Pyrénées (21000-11000 cal BP) entre unification et régionalisation culturelles
Les dix derniers millénaires d'occupation humaine paléolithique ont laissé d'abondants témoignages le long du versant nord-pyrénéen. Si les fluctuations climatiques et leurs conséquences environnementales ont pu conditionner l'exploitation de certains territoires en altitude, le piémont semble en revanche avoir constitué un vaste espace favorable à l'implantation humaine entre des reliefs et vallées progressivement libérées des glaces, l'ouvertur…
Human Rights and the Care of the Self
Bergson, human rights, and joy
The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought
This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern political thought was a key player in bringing about this demise. The essay consists of two parts. In Part One, I overview Foucault’s conception of the care of the self and situate it within his later work on ancient philosophy and culture. In Part Two, I turn to his r…
The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self
In this article, I claim that Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke both conceive of the rights of man as a medium for individuals to care for and cultivate the self. Beginning with Michel Foucault’s doubts that a concern with the care of the self can be found in modern political thought, I turn to Wollstonecraft and Burke in order to show that their debate turns precisely on the question of whether the rights of man enables or disables a care of …
Human Rights and the Leap of Love
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Henri Bergson’s death I present what I believe is his most vital and lasting contribution to political philosophy: his conception of human rights. This article has two goals. The first is to present Bergson’s writings on human rights as clearly and simply as possible, so as to reach the wide audience it deserves. The second is to demonstrate his relevance for contemporary human rights scholarship. To do so, …
Alexandre Lefebvre interviews Paul Patton
Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson’s Later Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze’s later thought revolves around the problem of immanence. Indeed, his final piece, “Immanence: a Life”, restates his definition of philosophy as thought faithful to immanence. But Deleuze’s commitment to immanence also informs his scathing criticism of human rights. His objection is that they introduce a transcendence of the subject that vitiates political thought and practice. In this article, I argue that while Deleuze’s objectio…
Law and the Ordinary: Hart, Wittgenstein, Jurisprudence
It is often observed by H. L. A. Hart, and also by his friends and interpreters, that when he accepted Oxford's Chair of Jurisprudence in 1952 his field was in a bad way. Looking back in an interview, Hart remarks that at the time British jurisprudence “had no broad principles, no broad faith; it confronted no large questions.... It focused on technical, legal problems. There were no large-scale inquiries into the philosophical dimensions of law.…
Mary Wollstonecraft's civic perfectionism
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a spirited defence of women's natural rights and a disparaging critique of a society that regards weakness in women as a virtue
Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis
This paper contends that Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1977 [1932]) is in pervasive and critical engagement with Émile Durkheim. We argue that both thinkers advance a sui generis concept of society that frames the organizing problem of their exchange: the relationship between society and biology. Our analysis traces the concept of society sui generis through Durkheim's Division of Labor (1893) and Rules of Sociological…
Critique of teleology in Kant and Dworkin: The law without organs (LwO)
In the Critique of Judgment Kant proposes a unique and necessary presupposition of our faculty of judgment. Empirical nature, together with its diverse laws, must be judged as if it were a coherent unity. In a teleological judgment, we add that nature must be judged as if it were purposively designed for our faculty of judgment. In this article, I argue that Kant's insights on reflective teleological judgment - the least commentedupon element of …
Habermas and Deleuze on Law and Adjudication
We Do Not Yet Know What the Law Can Do
The Gift of Law: Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf
Modern social and political thought has approached the questions of politics, law, and citizenship from the vantage point of a fundamental divide between the occidental and oriental, or archaic and modern, institutions. This article creates a concept, the gift of law, by staging two gift-giving practices as two historical moments: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf. While it is indebted to Mauss, our articulation of the gift of law also owes to th…
Things Temporal Exposé, Passages from Benjamin
Nineteenth-century Paris was for Walter Benjamin the site of a singular historical event, the ur-form of bourgeois modernity. It was a “hellish” time disastrously bent on repeating itself and yet a threshold of great promise and possibility. By focusing on Benjamin's 1935 and 1939 Exposés for The Arcades Project, my paper develops the keywords of the Exposés (Arcades, Fashion, etc.), and elaborates ways in which these objects articulate such diff…
Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis
This paper contends that Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1977 [1932]) is in pervasive and critical engagement with Émile Durkheim. We argue that both thinkers advance a sui generis concept of society that frames the organizing problem of their exchange: the relationship between society and biology. Our analysis traces the concept of society sui generis through Durkheim's Division of Labor (1893) and Rules of Sociological…
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls
In this article I interpret John Rawls’s concept of the original position as a spiritual exercise. In addition to the standard interpretation of the original position as an expository device to select principles of justice for the fundamental institutions of society, I argue that Rawls also envisages it as a “spiritual exercise”: a voluntary personal practice intended to bring about a transformation of the self. To make this argument, I draw on t…
The Gift of Law: Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf
Modern social and political thought has approached the questions of politics, law, and citizenship from the vantage point of a fundamental divide between the occidental and oriental, or archaic and modern, institutions. This article creates a concept, the gift of law, by staging two gift-giving practices as two historical moments: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf. While it is indebted to Mauss, our articulation of the gift of law also owes to th…
Three Reasons for Hospitality: Care for Others, Care for the World, and Care of the Self
We seek to answer a deceptively simple question: why do private citizens in liberal democracies offer hospitality to undocumented migrants? Through qualitative interviews with French citizens, we propose three reasons. The first is widely recognized in the scholarly literature: hospitality is offered out of a care and concern for vulnerable and precarious migrants. However, we uncover two additional reasons that are not acknowledged in studies on…
The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self
In this article, I claim that Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke both conceive of the rights of man as a medium for individuals to care for and cultivate the self. Beginning with Michel Foucault’s doubts that a concern with the care of the self can be found in modern political thought, I turn to Wollstonecraft and Burke in order to show that their debate turns precisely on the question of whether the rights of man enables or disables a care of …
Human Rights and the Leap of Love
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Henri Bergson’s death I present what I believe is his most vital and lasting contribution to political philosophy: his conception of human rights. This article has two goals. The first is to present Bergson’s writings on human rights as clearly and simply as possible, so as to reach the wide audience it deserves. The second is to demonstrate his relevance for contemporary human rights scholarship. To do so, …
Habermas and Deleuze on Law and Adjudication
We Do Not Yet Know What the Law Can Do
Things Temporal Exposé, Passages from Benjamin
Nineteenth-century Paris was for Walter Benjamin the site of a singular historical event, the ur-form of bourgeois modernity. It was a “hellish” time disastrously bent on repeating itself and yet a threshold of great promise and possibility. By focusing on Benjamin's 1935 and 1939 Exposés for The Arcades Project, my paper develops the keywords of the Exposés (Arcades, Fashion, etc.), and elaborates ways in which these objects articulate such diff…
Things Temporal Exposé, Passages from Benjamin
Nineteenth-century Paris was for Walter Benjamin the site of a singular historical event, the ur-form of bourgeois modernity. It was a “hellish” time disastrously bent on repeating itself and yet a threshold of great promise and possibility. By focusing on Benjamin's 1935 and 1939 Exposés for The Arcades Project, my paper develops the keywords of the Exposés (Arcades, Fashion, etc.), and elaborates ways in which these objects articulate such diff…
The Gift of Law: Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf
Modern social and political thought has approached the questions of politics, law, and citizenship from the vantage point of a fundamental divide between the occidental and oriental, or archaic and modern, institutions. This article creates a concept, the gift of law, by staging two gift-giving practices as two historical moments: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf. While it is indebted to Mauss, our articulation of the gift of law also owes to th…
Habermas and Deleuze on Law and Adjudication
We Do Not Yet Know What the Law Can Do
Critique of teleology in Kant and Dworkin: The law without organs (LwO)
In the Critique of Judgment Kant proposes a unique and necessary presupposition of our faculty of judgment. Empirical nature, together with its diverse laws, must be judged as if it were a coherent unity. In a teleological judgment, we add that nature must be judged as if it were purposively designed for our faculty of judgment. In this article, I argue that Kant's insights on reflective teleological judgment - the least commentedupon element of …
Mary Wollstonecraft's civic perfectionism
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a spirited defence of women's natural rights and a disparaging critique of a society that regards weakness in women as a virtue
Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis
This paper contends that Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1977 [1932]) is in pervasive and critical engagement with Émile Durkheim. We argue that both thinkers advance a sui generis concept of society that frames the organizing problem of their exchange: the relationship between society and biology. Our analysis traces the concept of society sui generis through Durkheim's Division of Labor (1893) and Rules of Sociological…
Human Rights in Deleuze and Bergson’s Later Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze’s later thought revolves around the problem of immanence. Indeed, his final piece, “Immanence: a Life”, restates his definition of philosophy as thought faithful to immanence. But Deleuze’s commitment to immanence also informs his scathing criticism of human rights. His objection is that they introduce a transcendence of the subject that vitiates political thought and practice. In this article, I argue that while Deleuze’s objectio…
Law and the Ordinary: Hart, Wittgenstein, Jurisprudence
It is often observed by H. L. A. Hart, and also by his friends and interpreters, that when he accepted Oxford's Chair of Jurisprudence in 1952 his field was in a bad way. Looking back in an interview, Hart remarks that at the time British jurisprudence “had no broad principles, no broad faith; it confronted no large questions.... It focused on technical, legal problems. There were no large-scale inquiries into the philosophical dimensions of law.…
Alexandre Lefebvre interviews Paul Patton
The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought
This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern political thought was a key player in bringing about this demise. The essay consists of two parts. In Part One, I overview Foucault’s conception of the care of the self and situate it within his later work on ancient philosophy and culture. In Part Two, I turn to his r…
The Rights of Man and the Care of the Self
In this article, I claim that Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke both conceive of the rights of man as a medium for individuals to care for and cultivate the self. Beginning with Michel Foucault’s doubts that a concern with the care of the self can be found in modern political thought, I turn to Wollstonecraft and Burke in order to show that their debate turns precisely on the question of whether the rights of man enables or disables a care of …
Human Rights and the Leap of Love
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Henri Bergson’s death I present what I believe is his most vital and lasting contribution to political philosophy: his conception of human rights. This article has two goals. The first is to present Bergson’s writings on human rights as clearly and simply as possible, so as to reach the wide audience it deserves. The second is to demonstrate his relevance for contemporary human rights scholarship. To do so, …
Bergson, human rights, and joy
Human Rights and the Care of the Self
The Subject of Human Rights
Dix mille ans de peuplement humain sur le versant nord des Pyrénées (21000-11000 cal BP) entre unification et régionalisation culturelles
Les dix derniers millénaires d'occupation humaine paléolithique ont laissé d'abondants témoignages le long du versant nord-pyrénéen. Si les fluctuations climatiques et leurs conséquences environnementales ont pu conditionner l'exploitation de certains territoires en altitude, le piémont semble en revanche avoir constitué un vaste espace favorable à l'implantation humaine entre des reliefs et vallées progressivement libérées des glaces, l'ouvertur…
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls
In this article I interpret John Rawls’s concept of the original position as a spiritual exercise. In addition to the standard interpretation of the original position as an expository device to select principles of justice for the fundamental institutions of society, I argue that Rawls also envisages it as a “spiritual exercise”: a voluntary personal practice intended to bring about a transformation of the self. To make this argument, I draw on t…
Three Reasons for Hospitality: Care for Others, Care for the World, and Care of the Self
We seek to answer a deceptively simple question: why do private citizens in liberal democracies offer hospitality to undocumented migrants? Through qualitative interviews with French citizens, we propose three reasons. The first is widely recognized in the scholarly literature: hospitality is offered out of a care and concern for vulnerable and precarious migrants. However, we uncover two additional reasons that are not acknowledged in studies on…
Stanley Cavell, John Rawls and moral perfectionism in liberal democracy
John Rawls was what we might call a “frenemy” to Stanley Cavell. Time and again, Cavell states his admiration for Rawls's political philosophy but criticizes it for two reasons. First, he believes that Rawls too hastily dismisses a perfectionist tradition that is essential for a flourishing liberal democracy. Second, he attacks certain aspects of Rawls's theory of justice as moralistic and legalistic. The first half of this article examines Cavel…
Reconciling community-level responses of wild bees to highly anthropized landscapes
Chapitre 14. Les outils actifs tranchants en roches tenaces
Sont traités, dans cette partie, les éléments en roches tenaces, bruts ou retouchés, dotés d’un dièdre ayant pu servir à découper, trancher ou encore racler toute matière d’œuvre.Dans un premier temps notre analyse tracéologique s’est appuyée sur un référentiel expérimental récent portant sur les quartzites du Sud-Ouest de la France (Claud et al. 2018–2019), aucune donnée de référence n’étant, à notre connaissance, disponible sur la dolérite.Nous…
Les sites de la Peyzie (Lisle, Dordogne). Une histoire en construction
Bien qu’aujourd’hui largement méconnue, la corniche rocheuse de la Peyzie s’inscrit pourtant dans l’histoire de l’archéologie préhistorique locale. Localisée dans la moyenne vallée de la Dronne (Dordogne), à proximité de sites de renom comme Pont d’Ambon ou le Fourneau du Diable, elle a livré plusieurs grottes dont l’une (Peyzie I) fut fouillée dès les années 1930 par Paul-Émile Jude alors en quête d’une première expérience de fouille. Menées dan…
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