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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Finkielkraut against edifying literature"

2021-11-12T19:32:34.382Z


CHRONICLE - In his latest book, the philosopher describes the advent of a world where the face of man is effaced in the generality of a disembodied, deconstructed and reprogrammed humanity.


While on the set of Laurence Ferrari, Alain Finkielkraut confessed his discomfort in front of what must be called the return of edifying literature.

What is literature for ?, asks the time, before answering that it must fight against racism, sexism, prejudices, stereotypes, discrimination and global warming.

Pious books in the service of the dominant ideology are multiplying.

We could also speak of books in the service of diverse realism, as in the past, we found some in the service of socialist realism.

And this is the philosophy of the philosopher in his work

L'Après-literature

.

Because literature, Finkielkraut tells us, has a completely different function: to explore the world while refusing to give in to the spirit of generalization.

She must explore the human condition one face at a time, remembering that each situation carries within itself a complex and contradictory truth, which will never be encapsulated in a single discourse.

There where

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Source: lefigaro

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