"Academics in peril?"

2021-11-15T19:08:50.444Z

TRIBUNE - Stéphane Ratti, professor of antiquity history, welcomes the book Le Savoir en danger, threats to the academic freedom of his colleague Olivier Beaud.

It happens today in the free world, in the United States as in old Europe, that one rejects or that one suspends, that one sanctions or even that one fires a university professor for comments in the pulpit deemed to be non-compliant, excessively controversial, or for an incorrect use of social networks.

Some American universities have written it down in their internal regulations and we know, in France, universities whose communication services have "formalized" (understand: "regulated") the terms of expression of their professors in the press.

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This phenomenon has experienced a spectacular upsurge for a decade to the point, according to Olivier Beaud, of putting

“knowledge in danger”

(

Knowledge in danger, threats to academic freedom

, PUF).

In an essay perfectly informed, measured, based on recent case studies, from the case of the IEP of Grenoble to the controversies about the film

J'accuse

by Polanski, the author, academic and eminent

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