LE FIGARO.
- As a philosopher, how do you view this war?
Beyond the geopolitical consequences, how is it likely to shake up imaginations, representations and even mentalities?
Robert REDEKER.
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The day of the invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022, will remain as such a significant date as September 11, 2001. Let's see in them the two most important dates of the beginning XXI century.
These are dates of a turn of time, opening an epoch.
An epoch, says Bossuet, is a time marked "
by some great event to which the rest is related
."
This event set the tone for the years that followed.
He discovers a new political and mental landscape, the possibility of which no one suspected until then, as if we had crossed the horizon line.
Volte des temps: here are the modified landmarks, the changed convictions.
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