T. Berns, "Violence de la loi à la Renaissance. L’originaire du politique chez Machiavel et Montaigne", Kimé, Paris, 2000
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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 (...)

2000
Vrin (Paris)
This book presents Leo Strauss’s work and examines the strategies used by philosophers in order both to disclose and to dissimulate their doctrines. The essays collected in this book test the "art of writing" hypothesis and try to measure the potential and the limits of Strauss’s account for philosophical writing. Also included a French translation of the first version of "Persecution and the Art of Writing" (1941)an a bibliography of Strauss and Straussian studies. (...)