A new documentary format by ARTE France
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Les Grands Entretiens is an ARTE documentary series that invites viewers to discover the ideas of thinkers who have left their mark on our time and who are now key figures on the intellectual landscape.
Like anthropologist Philippe Descola, historian Michelle Perrot, and philosopher Hartmut Rosa, the researchers featured in the Grands Entretiens have introduced concepts that have revolutionized their fields and continue to resonate throughout society today. Understanding their ideas helps us gain a deeper insight into our world.
Three episodes to watch on arte.tv
We invite you to start this series with Philippe Descola, Hartmut Rosa and Michelle Perrot.
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The Grand entretien with Philippe Descola
Anthropologist, CNRS gold medalist and professor at the Collège de France, Philippe Descola has devoted his life as a researcher to trying to understand the relationship between human beings and the rest of the living world. During his fieldwork among the Achuar in Amazonia, he made a discovery that was to shake up the world of ideas: nature does not exist, or at least not for everyone. It was a European concept, no more than four centuries old, that changed the course of history. Philippe Descola goes back in time to tell us about the development of his thinking. He is willing to share a lifetime of research, encounters and doubt.
Written and directed by: Adèle Flaux
Co-written and embodied by: Laura Raim
Duration: 73 minutes
The Grand entretien with Harmut Rosa
Hours and minutes slip through our fingers. We do more and more things in a day, increasingly faster. Yet, we have never felt so much like we are chasing after time. Hartmut Rosa is a German sociologist and philosopher. For over 20 years, he has examined our lifestyles to highlight one of the fundamental dimensions of modernity: the acceleration of time. Convinced that critiquing modern society can help change it, Hartmut Rosa seeks ways to escape this temporal impasse.
Written and directed by: Adèle Flaux
Co-written and embodied by: Laura Raim
Duration: 60 minutes
The Grand entretien with Michelle Perrot
“The idea that women could become independent when it comes to giving birth, and even when it comes to their own sexuality, is a kind of revolution in the making that is starting to frighten everyone.”
Michelle Perrot is a historian who, along with a number of colleagues, has achieved a rare and difficult feat: opening up a field of research from almost nothing, legitimizing a subject that was not previously considered legitimate, a category considered to be on the margins, yet which represents half of humanity: women.
Michelle Perrot is one of the great historians of women’s history, and it’s almost easy to forget that she didn’t take an interest in women’s history until quite late in her career, having first studied the world of the workers and then the world of prisons. So what was the long road she travelled? What was she interested in before arriving at this subject that touches her so closely?
Michelle Perrot welcomes Marie Richeux into her home to tell her story and retrace her path as a researcher, from her reading of Simone de Beauvoir to her meeting with Michel Foucault. It’s a story marked by History, the Second World War and the revolutionary spirit of May 1968, a story of emancipation. Drawing on books, archives and photographs, Michelle Perrot recounts her fear of the dark and her tireless battle against the shadows.
Written and directed by: Adèle Flaux
Co-written and embodied by: Marie Richeux
Duration: 84 minutes
