Normalien, agrégé and doctor in history, Christophe de Voogd teaches political rhetoric and "the uses of the past" at Sciences Po.
The formula is not original: the presidential election is the meeting of a man or (finally!) a woman and a people.
It remains no less fair in a very personalized political system, based on the first-past-the-post system in two rounds.
And it is perhaps even more relevant in a time of crisis of the great ideological narratives and of abysmal loss of democratic landmarks, and in particular of mistrust towards all intermediary bodies.
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In rhetorical terms, this political configuration reinforces the decisive character of the ethos, that is to say of the "character" of any candidate for the supreme election: more precisely of the self-image, constructed and transmitted in and by his speech.
Aristotle's intuition, for whom ethos constitutes
"almost the most effective proof"
- alongside pathos and logos - is as valid as ever in a gnawed era...
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