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Alain Supiot: "The French ruling classes have lost confidence in the culture from which they are heirs" (2/2)

2022-07-22T16:53:30.619Z


MAIN INTERVIEW - For the professor emeritus at the College de France, cultural disaffiliation is made inevitable by "the steamroller of globalization", which denies cultural specificities, destroys the singularity of national models and atomizes individuals.


A great thinker of the social state recognized for his works on work and author of

La Gouvernance par lesnumbers

(Fayard, 2015), Alain Supiot recently published

La Justice au travail

(Seuil, 2022) and presented a reissue of

Persian Letters

to the occasion of the tercentenary of Montesquieu's work (Points, 2021).

LE FIGARO.

- You say that the Maastricht Treaty was a turning point in the feeling of political dispossession.

Today, we have a National Assembly that is quite anti-European Union, whether on the side of Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Marine Le Pen.

Is it the fruit of this frustration?

Alain Supiot.

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We should agree on what is meant by pro and anti-European.

During the war, the resistance fighters fought against the projects for European union promoted by Hitler and Mussolini, while the collaborators thought, like Marcel Déat, that it was necessary to go ahead of Germany's wishes, because "

in this construction of Europe, she is not a tyrant, but a master builder...

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Source: lefigaro

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