The four books of the anthropic corpus form the long-form foundation of the project. Where the Anthropie Working Papers formalise the hypothesis and apply it to specific objects — public debt, the energy transition, independent research —, the books deploy it across a broader arc: long-range history, economics, public finance, inequality, epistemology. Un président peut-il tenir ses promesses ? (in French) deals with executive power: what a promise can displace instead of resolving — figures of the framework that the book encounters without claiming to measure them. The founding book is available in English as ANTHROPY – A Big History of Civilization’s Hidden Costs, whose subtitle carries the framework’s motto: “Order here. Debt elsewhere.” Every local order is financed by disorder displaced somewhere else, toward other places, other times, or other social groups. Each book can be read independently; together, they map the full architecture of the framework.
The other works belong to a separate editorial project, prior to or running alongside the anthropic framework: L’Odyssée des idées, a narrative journey through the history of ideas, and Livresque des mots, a quotation anthology in the lineage of the commonplace book — twenty-five centuries of voices, deliberately left unclassified, to be read like a novel rather than consulted like a dictionary. Apart from the founding work, all the books are published in French only.
