Biancamaria Fontana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Biancamaria Fontana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Biancamaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontana |
| SIGNATURE | FONTANA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Les mésaventures de la liberté d’expression
Depuis quelques temps le pouvoir d’influence des plateformes numériques est perçu comme une menace croissante pour le déroulement du débat démocratique, à cause des possibilités de manipulation qui en dérivent. Nos perplexités face à cette nouvelle technologie ne sont pas sans rappeler une expérience historique lointaine, et pourtant assez similaire. Au tournant du XVIIIe siècle, les intellectuels européens ont été confrontés aux conséquences d’…
Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. This book sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as a political actor in a world where women had no place. The banker's daughter who became one of Europe's best-…
Addressing William Pitt (1794)
This chapter demonstrates how, for Staël, the anticipation of a new state of affairs in Paris was not just a matter of general interest but carried immediate consequences for her own future plans and prospects. During her exile she had occasionally imagined herself beginning a new life elsewhere: in England with Narbonne; in Germany or Denmark with her new lover, Adolphe Ribbing; or even in America, where Necker had acquired some landed property.…
Montaigne's Politics
Lâcher la bride
Montaigne est souvent présenté comme un défenseur inconditionnel de la liberté de conscience et de la tolérance, mais cette vision est simplificatrice. À une époque déchirée par les guerres de religion, Montaigne envisage la tolérance religieuse dans une perspective qui privilégie la pratique politique plutôt que les questions de principe. Le caractère largement insaisissable des croyances humaines rend la notion de liberté de conscience presque …
The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations
In 1824 the Italian musician Gioacchino Rossini, who was at the time at the height of his reputation, living in golden retirement in Paris, was commissioned to write an opera celebrating the coronation of King Charles X, the former Comte d'Artois, youngest brother of the unfortunate Louis XVI. Rossini obliged: the opera was called Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims); it was performed a few times—apparently with success—in the presence of th…
Alternance démocratique et contrôle des gouvernants
Une analyse des causes de la défaite de la coalition de centre gauche aux élections italiennes de mai 2001 amène à penser que la victoire de l’alliance conservatrice, Polo delle Libertà, guidée par Silvio Berlusconi, ne peut pas offrir de solution stable à la crise du système politique italien qui a commencé, au début des années 1990, avec les procès pour corruption de Mani Pulite. Cette victoire va, au contraire, prolonger un état de confusion e…
The Invention of the Modern Republic
Why are republics the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy, when until the late eighteenth-century it was generally believed that republics could function only in small urban territories with considerable ethical and political cohesion? In The Invention of the Modern Republic a team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers this question, and examines the origins of republ…
Plastic sex and the sociologist
To what extent have feminism and sexual liberation truly changed our lives? In spite of undeniable shifts in collective behaviour and mentality it is not clear in retrospect that the quality of intimacy among individuals - within the family, in marriage, in love relations - has been radically transformed, let alone significantly improved. In spite of some isolated efforts, contemporary social and political theory seems especially disorientated an…
Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society
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Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society
The Invention of the Modern Republic
Why are republics the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy, when until the late eighteenth-century it was generally believed that republics could function only in small urban territories with considerable ethical and political cohesion? In The Invention of the Modern Republic a team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers this question, and examines the origins of republ…
Plastic sex and the sociologist
To what extent have feminism and sexual liberation truly changed our lives? In spite of undeniable shifts in collective behaviour and mentality it is not clear in retrospect that the quality of intimacy among individuals - within the family, in marriage, in love relations - has been radically transformed, let alone significantly improved. In spite of some isolated efforts, contemporary social and political theory seems especially disorientated an…
Alternance démocratique et contrôle des gouvernants
Une analyse des causes de la défaite de la coalition de centre gauche aux élections italiennes de mai 2001 amène à penser que la victoire de l’alliance conservatrice, Polo delle Libertà, guidée par Silvio Berlusconi, ne peut pas offrir de solution stable à la crise du système politique italien qui a commencé, au début des années 1990, avec les procès pour corruption de Mani Pulite. Cette victoire va, au contraire, prolonger un état de confusion e…
The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations
In 1824 the Italian musician Gioacchino Rossini, who was at the time at the height of his reputation, living in golden retirement in Paris, was commissioned to write an opera celebrating the coronation of King Charles X, the former Comte d'Artois, youngest brother of the unfortunate Louis XVI. Rossini obliged: the opera was called Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims); it was performed a few times—apparently with success—in the presence of th…
Lâcher la bride
Montaigne est souvent présenté comme un défenseur inconditionnel de la liberté de conscience et de la tolérance, mais cette vision est simplificatrice. À une époque déchirée par les guerres de religion, Montaigne envisage la tolérance religieuse dans une perspective qui privilégie la pratique politique plutôt que les questions de principe. Le caractère largement insaisissable des croyances humaines rend la notion de liberté de conscience presque …
Montaigne's Politics
Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. This book sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as a political actor in a world where women had no place. The banker's daughter who became one of Europe's best-…
Addressing William Pitt (1794)
This chapter demonstrates how, for Staël, the anticipation of a new state of affairs in Paris was not just a matter of general interest but carried immediate consequences for her own future plans and prospects. During her exile she had occasionally imagined herself beginning a new life elsewhere: in England with Narbonne; in Germany or Denmark with her new lover, Adolphe Ribbing; or even in America, where Necker had acquired some landed property.…
Les mésaventures de la liberté d’expression
Depuis quelques temps le pouvoir d’influence des plateformes numériques est perçu comme une menace croissante pour le déroulement du débat démocratique, à cause des possibilités de manipulation qui en dérivent. Nos perplexités face à cette nouvelle technologie ne sont pas sans rappeler une expérience historique lointaine, et pourtant assez similaire. Au tournant du XVIIIe siècle, les intellectuels européens ont été confrontés aux conséquences d’…
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