Books on individualism are legion.
And it has been going on for centuries.
Since Benjamin Constant and his
Freedom of the Ancients compared to that of the Moderns,
since Tocqueville of course, we have not stopped writing about this individual who became king.
Sometimes we complain about what remains in irons, despite the democratic promise;
sometimes, one denounces its tyranny which crushes any possibility of social bond.
To read also:
"The collective, solution to the individualistic drift"
Eric Sadin's work falls more into the second category.
The author was illustrated in his previous book by a brilliant analysis of the ideological and sociological origins of the men of Silicon Valley.
He puts the cover back this time but encloses his analysis in a global reflection on individualism in our connected societies.
It starts from a golden age: the 1960s, when there was a
"perfect balance between the possibility of living according to one's own desires and the building of supposedly harmonious societies, both based on equal rights and deserved
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