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Dominique Schnapper: "Anti-Semitism reveals the crisis of democracy"

2022-01-09T19:51:24.121Z


INTERVIEW - The sociologist warns against the disintegration of the French republican pact, which no longer makes it possible to control the overflow of “sad passions”.


Dominique Schnapper is a keen observer of French society. President of the Committee of Elders of Secularism, at the Ministry of National Education, and Director of Studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), she is the author of numerous books, notably

On Democracy in France. Republic, nation, secularism

(Odile Jacob, 2017) and

Powerful and fragile, the enterprise in democracy,

with Alain Schnapper (Odile Jacob, 2020). Taking note, this time, of the rise of anti-Semitism and the weakening of collective sense, the former member of the Constitutional Council publishes

Temps inquiets. Sociological reflection on the Jewish condition

(Odile Jacob).

LE FIGARO.

- Can we or should we speak of assimilation or integration of Jews into French society?

Dominique SCHNAPPER.

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Let's leave the word questions.

What characterizes French Jews is their strong participation in collective life and their passionate adherence to the principles of the Republic.

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Source: lefigaro

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