Each era normally knows how to translate the great questions it asks itself into the language of political philosophy.
The latter explores the great quarrels that cross it.
The second half of the 20th century was not favorable to it, however: the triumph of Marxism and, more broadly, the institutional and theoretical deployment of the human and social sciences downgraded it.
The most powerful minds embraced the latter, as they allowed themselves to be caught up in and even hypnotized by the fantasy of the complete deconstruction of Western civilization, that it was necessary to annihilate one institution at a time in order for the figure of man to be reborn. new.
Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Touraine participated in this enterprise.
Many minor spirits were also engulfed there.
They still dominate the university.
But the ancient tradition wanted to be reborn, and it is in the United States that it is reappearing.
John Rawls wanted to carry the banner by reconnecting, through his work…
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