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Bérénice Levet: "Faced with the ecology of deconstruction, a conservative ecology is possible"

2022-01-11T18:22:04.143Z


EXCLUSIVE EXTRACTS - In her new essay, L'Écologie ou l'ivresse de la table rase (Éditions de l'Observatoire), the philosopher wonders: how to explain that ecology, supposed to be guided by the concern for preservation, has become the standard of the most bitter progressives?


Bérénice Levet, already noticed, in particular, for

The Imaginary Museum of Hannah Arendt

(Stock, 2011) and

The Theory of Gender or the Dreamed World of Angels

(Pocket Book, 2016), analyze the revolutionary lyricism of an ideology that has taken over from Marxism and puts Western culture on trial.

Taking up the vocabulary of intersectionality, inclusiveness and rejection of borders, progressive ecology promotes a clean slate and deconstruction.

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According to the philosopher, another ecology is possible, which would not be a war machine against Western heritage, but would draw from our culture the resources to counter the drifts of productivism and which would focus on the preservation of beauty.

Le Figaro

exclusively publishes large extracts from this clear, subtle and elegant essay.

A new ideology

Does this mean that where an ideology collapses, inevitably a new one must arise?

(…) What we could have taken for the end of the play…

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Source: lefigaro

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