LE FIGARO.
- Is the crisis of liberal democracies that we are going through partly explained by our uprooting?
Michel MAFFESOLI.
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Yes.
This civilizational crisis marks the end of the democratic ideal, a fairly vertical conception of the world, conceived solely on reason.
Jacobinism in France is its expression.
For a long time, an ideology that I call hegelio-Marxist, a perspective of uprooting, had the wind in its sails.
According to this ideology, it was necessary to go to the big cities since that is where the revolution was taking place.
This era is coming to an end.
This uprooting has resulted in the weakening of traditional structures and intermediary bodies.
The deconstruction of grassroots communities, that is to say the essence of the common good.
All of modernity has denied this conception of place and connection.
According to you, we have entered a new era, marked by a “return to the territory”.
Is it the expression of a search...
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