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The shores of Lake Geneva have long been part of the literary landscape, be it Vaud, Swiss or even international. If La Nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau has left its mark on our collective memories, inspiring many a traveler to follow in the footsteps of Julie or St-Preux, English-speakers have also left their mark on […]

On the bangs of the Festival Histoire et Cité, and in the wake of Gaïa’s focus on ecologies and the uses of the Earth, we offer you a new selection of documents on water and its many historical variations. Water, the source of life, nourishes our daily lives and enriches our imaginations. As we travel […]

In connection with the UNIL Mysteries, the Unithèque collection managers are offering you a selection of documents on the history of emotions and their representations over the centuries. A thematic selection to discover on the Unithèque site from May 20 to June 2, 2019, as well as in the Renouvaud catalog. A thematic selection on […]

Faced with the imminence of a global ecological crisis, we urgently need to rethink the way we use the Earth. This year, the Groupe Vaudois de Philosophie has decided to go beyond a simple acknowledgement of the catastrophe underway and yet to come, and to reflect on different ways of inhabiting the Earth: “We don’t […]

The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne sees life in blue and offers you a thematic selection tinged with humor! Working in a library sometimes means having superpowers. Every librarian has surely been confronted at least once with this type of request from a reader: “I can’t remember the title but…” “…it was sitting on this display” […]

As Laurent de Sutter explains in Qu’est-ce que la pop’philosophie? the genesis and late fortune of this concept coined by Gilles Deleuze in the 1970s, “pop’philosophie is the philosophical practice of transforming anything into something” (p. 31). But more than just a concept, it’s another way of philosophizing: “what we’re talking about, in practicing pop’philosophie, […]