Is “identity politics” filling the void left by the collapse of great narratives in postmodern societies? This is the thesis defended by Douglas Murray in his book
La Grande Déraison
(Éditions L'Artilleur).
The obsession of “intersectional minorities” with “race”, “gender” and “identity” seems to him potentially destructive for Western societies.
"We pitted gays against straight people, blacks against whites, women against men," laments the British journalist and essayist.
It is in the West that the situation of minorities is the most enviable in the world, he recalls, and it is paradoxically the victory of the great egalitarian causes which, according to him, provokes an escalation of demands as contradictory as they are dangerous. A bestseller in England,
La Grande Déraison will
appear in French this Thursday.
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● Birth of a new ideology
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