Paul Thibaud: "How the French are encouraged to civic passivity"

The main object of Marcel Gauchet's work is the establishment and affirmation of democracy in Europe.

This journey begins with

(Gallimard, 1985), which shows how, in our country, power has emancipated itself from the religious who previously inspired and regulated collective life.

It ends in 2017 with Volume IV of

,

(Gallimard), what we are experiencing

the culmination of our collective destiny.

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This outcome is not invigorating: the democracy of individuals endowed with rights that the State has not conferred but that it must honor associated with the market society produces something which is less a regime (rules and manners to be agreed) that a functioning produced from the outside,

says Gauchet, who qualifies it as somnambulist, since it does not need to be internalized by those who participate in it.

Gauchet reports the disappointing end of the course where we are at a

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