What are the consequences of the upheavals in Western societies for half a century? Have advances in medicine and the triumph of the idea of individual emancipation enabled lasting well-being for everyone in the West? This is the disturbing question posed by Hugues Lagrange, researcher at the CNRS and Sciences Po. The promise of freedom and autonomy has, according to him, resulted in increased suffering and loneliness of western homo economicus. This observation encourages us to rethink modernity and invites us to reconnect with the ideal of "good life" in a "decent society".
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Unhappy modernity
“We live in an environment that hides and rebels under the blows. The ecological disaster in fact stems from the behavior of men: the technologies used on a large scale are turning into nuisances, pollution, deterioration, asphyxiation. The precariousness of balances is firmly remembered to us. Endangering our environment and returning
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