In his remarkable book
The War of Ideas
(Robert Laffont), which has just been published, Eugénie Bastié very rightly observed the paradox at the heart of French intellectual life in the present years.
If we find in the public space a greater diversity of currents of thought than before, each managing to express in their own way their vision of the world, they are less able to engage in an authentic civic conversation than they are pushed. to ideological clashes by the most violent, which testify to a moment of extreme polarization in the heart of the city.
It should come as no surprise: in a tragic era, political passions inevitably heat up and intellectuals are even more sensitive to it than ordinary people.
We cannot underestimate the excitement inherent in the psychology of civil war: it awakens in man passions that democracy normally tends to repress.
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