For thirty years, Jean-Pierre Le Goff has been building a work that is distinguished by its finesse of approach and a rare scruple which preserves it from the prejudices of time as well as ideological grids. The reality of May 68, the "end of the village", the excesses of management, "cultural leftism" are the furrows that he digs into a language as precise as it is evocative.
In his new essay,
The Sick Society
(Stock), he shows with clairvoyance and penetration the profound effects of the pandemic on our collective psychology, our link to reality altered by continuous information, our relationship to death and the restored tragedy. by the attacks and the Covid-19.
The intellectual underlines the growing hegemony of a “fundamentalist and punitive ecology” as a key to explaining the world, is worried about the individualist and communitarian withdrawal to which the “reserves of humanities” respond to which the nursing staff has been in this period the most beautiful example.
LE FIGARO.
- The Covid is also the return
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