In a European context where reviving competitiveness is a top priority, this book offers a detailed and powerful explanation for understanding the logic and contradictions that are omnipresent in our societal relationship with nature and living beings.

The author analyzes how natural resources are relegated to “free gifts,” whose existence is assumed to be infinite and subject to the logic of extraction and accumulation through industrial and scientific processes.

This seminar offers an opportunity to revisit with the author the process of creating this ambitious work and to compare perspectives on his analysis based on the expertise of

• Eric Fabri, postdoctoral researcher in political theory (CTP – iiTSE - ULB) and author of “Rendre le Vivant Politique” (Making Life Political) and “Pourquoi la propriété privée” (Why Private Property)

• Vivien Giet (Arcadie -UNamur), a doctoral student whose research explores historical materialism in the works of Deleuze and Benjamin. Vivien belongs to the Arcadie center, whose research program straddles critical theory of history and reflection on the Anthropocene.

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On Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (6:00-8:00 p.m.), the Marcel Liebman Institute is pleased to welcome Alain Bihr for a lecture on his latest book, L’écocide capitaliste (Syllepse / Page 2).

Alain Bihr is a sociologist and honorary professor at the University of Franche-Comté. In 2020, the Marcel Liebman Chair had already welcomed him for a series of four lectures devoted to Le premier âge du capitalisme (The Early Age of Capitalism, 1415–1763), a vast trilogy tracing the historical genesis of capitalism. A few years later, he published L’écocide capitaliste with the same high standards and monumental format. With this work, he continues his long-term project by shifting his analysis to the ecological destruction produced by contemporary capitalism. The Marcel Liebman Institute is delighted to welcome and support this intellectual journey, both yesterday and today.

More information: here

Both events are french speaking