"Juan Branco, or the chic illiberalism of some of the young French elites"

Former student of the École normale supérieure, Anne-Sophie Le Tac is a geopolitics teacher in preparatory classes.

Thanks to the talkative mouth sewn Piotr Pavlenski, the performer who nailed his family jewelry on Red Square, we rediscover an essential movement in Russian history of the nineteenth century, nihilism. The American historian Stuart Tompkins describes it as a philosophy of absolute amoralism, the rejection of all conventional moral and artistic values ​​and the conviction that the ills of Russia could only be cured by a work of total destruction. The nihilists saw themselves as the new intelligentsia that would take the place of the old aristocratic and bourgeois elite. It is possible to think that Piotr Pavlenski is an heir to Russian nihilism, a crazy, picturesque and unscrupulous adventurer, lost between New Years drinking and Parisian bourgeoisie in search of ideals.

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