Jacques Julliard is an editorial writer for the weekly "Marianne".
Until the coronavirus, we had lived in Nietzschean times. "I teach you the Superman," said Zarathustra to the assembled people, "man is something that must be surpassed . "
In times of antihumanism
The great intellectual event of the last quarter of the 20th century was the break made by the French philosophical elite with the humanism of the previous centuries up to Sartre. This rejection which had returned to us as a boomerang from the United States under the name of "French Theory". The most gifted, the most profound of these philosophers, Michel Foucault, said it at the end of Words and Things : "Man is an invention whose recent archeology can easily be seen in the archeology of our thinking. And maybe the next end (…), like a face of sand at the edge of the sea. ”
We must take into account the provocative, and sometimes metaphorical, turn of Foucault's thought. What he vows to an imminent death is not the human race, it is the humanist vision of
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