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Everyone can see it: the debate is tense.
If he experienced between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack of September 11, 2001 a moment of grace - greeted just as much by Jacques Julliard, who evokes an "enchanted parenthesis", Pierre Nora, who has since decreed "the end of the
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”, or Alain Finkielkraut, who evokes this time with nostalgia - this period when one could find oneself at the same table or on a common platform and cross swords without insulting each other seems well over.
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From now on, we are indignant, we moan, we encapsulate and we throw our opponent into the flames without further ado.
The appeased confrontation of contrary ideas which presided over, with the emergence of a critical mind, the retreat of relativism and the primacy of reason, the birth and development of the university, is relegated.
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