The course covers the production of ideas and concepts of the four or five of the thinkers who today characterizes the intellectual landscape in and outside France (eg, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Bourdieu, de Certeau, Finkielkraut, Gauchet, Morin, Ricoeur, Serres , Touraine, Onfray). Humanities in a cross-disciplinary perspective is concerned. At the seminar discussions is a selection of representative texts in the original and / or translation addressed.