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Fabrice Hadjadj, apology for motherhood and paternity

2022-05-22T18:16:30.165Z


BIBLIOTHEQUE DES ESSAIS - In this concise but profound work, Hadjadj questions the basis of the promise of procreation.


Another child? 

This question, mixed with exclamation and amazement, Fabrice Hadjadj has often heard it, since the fourth pregnancy of his wife, Siffreine.

This tone of reproach did not, however, prevent them from spawning again.

So much so that today they are at the head of a large family of nine children!

In an essay published by Éditions Mame, the philosopher responds with great humor to the accusations against his couple;

one day, they are accused of

"being oblivious",

of precipitating the

"suicide of the planet"

, of

"not thinking of future generations"

, another, of

"exposing (this innocent being) to suffering and aging".

Generation is the event of events: it does not introduce a new object or a new fact into the world, but a new subject, through whose gaze and freedom everything can be renewed.

Fabrice Hadjadj

Although the father of five girls and four boys, Fabrice Hadjadj does not seek to promote large families.

At the origin of this great tribe, there was no "parental project":

"We simply hugged each other, without inviting the pharmaceutical laboratories or the latex industries into our bed"

, confides the essayist...

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Source: lefigaro

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