In the universities of social sciences, did the Marxist studies of the 1960s give way to an obsession with communitarianism?
Poor Muslims, submissive women, ostracized LGBTs have become the alpha and omega of a certain academic thought, say researchers who regret, like the sociologist specializing in political Islam Bernard Rougier,
"the quasi-hegemony of this research on gender, race, Islamo-leftism ”.
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These ideas inspired by the American left and the French Derrida or Foucault are not new.
And decolonial thought is "neither absurd nor uninteresting", nor are studies on intersectionality, according to Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Paris-IV.
The problem is when these concepts become
"the exclusive reading grid that works with everything and on everything, without being able to even qualify the subject or confront it with other ideas"
, believes. he does.
"We
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