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Luc Ferry: “Mme Rousseau, Derrida and“ deconstruction ””

2021-11-10T19:44:29.822Z


CHRONICLE - the word "deconstruction", which until recently belonged to the technical vocabulary of philosophy, will soon take its place, as in the United States, in ordinary language.


“I live with a deconstructed man and I am very happy. I do not trust men or women who have not taken the path of deconstruction,

”said Sandrine Rousseau in her debate against Yannick Jadot. As might be expected, the notion of "deconstruction" applied to a human being has created a happy mixture of misunderstanding and mockery on the web. The images of a disjointed little plastic man circulated on social networks without us suspecting that this vocabulary actually referred to one of the key philosophical concepts of "Thought 68", a concept that was originally intellectual of the wave of "political correctness" which invaded American universities in the 1980s and which today takes the extreme form of wokism and "cancel culture".

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If I am telling you about it today, it is because I am convinced, having taught across the Atlantic for a long time, that this tidal wave will soon befall us with

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Source: lefigaro

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