G. Lewkowicz, M. Xifaras, (ed.), « Repenser le Contrat », Paris, Dalloz, 2009
Présentation :
Il est désormais courant d’évoquer un mouvement expansif de « contractualisation » du droit et de la société. Le contrat semble en effet s’insinuer partout et transgresser les partages les plus communément admis par la doctrine. Aussi, les sirènes de la crise du contrat, raisonnant régulièrement depuis le 19ème siècle, retentissent à nouveau. Elles signalent toutefois aujourd’hui quelque chose de nouveau.
Alors (...)

T. Berns, J.C. Dupont et M. Xifaras (dir.), Philosophie de l’impôt, éd. Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2006
Does Tax be a subject matter for philosophy or is it a mere technical issue for experts concerned about Tax’s output against Tax-fraud, -evasion or -avoidance?
Ideologies, whether pro or against taxation, try to convey such a drastic opposition between taxation and taxpayers. Counter to this, Tax appears to be a philosophical object because it leads us to take together the key concepts of our (...)

2004 collection Fondements de la politique, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
This book is a shortened and reviewed version of my PhD. It provides a theory of property. Nowadays the 19th Century dogmatic consensus defining property as the absolute right of a person on a material thing, is over; the question of the foundations and limits of property cannot be posed until we know what is property. Historical enquiry shows that legal thought is the very place of production of modern (...)

1999
Kimé, Paris
European universalism traditionnaly confuses universalism with its own pretentions. It’s contemporary version (Habermas, for example), based on the model of communicational exchange is not less confused, as it proposes procedures of legitimation that are said to be valid in any place and any time, without even trying to understand the real effects of using this model in a non-european context. Universalism never asks what is universal for the others. ? This little book aims (...)