Honorary research director at the CNRS, Pierre-André Taguieff is a philosopher, political scientist and historian of ideas. Author of fifty books, he recently published
Qui est l'extremiste?
at Interval Editions.
FIGAROVOX. - Why ask this question: “Who is the extremist”? Why was a new definition necessary?
Pierre-André TAGUIEFF. -
Beginning by asking the question "who" rather than the question "what", I wanted to privilege the investigative work, quasi-ethnographic, on the "extremists" and the "extremized", on the beliefs and arguments of accusers and defendants.
What do outspoken anti-extremists say, think and do?
And how do the pointed out "extremists" react?
These are the two preliminary questions.
I thus made the choice of a pluralistic and perspectivist approach, taking my distance from the vain attempts to begin by defining the essence of the phenomenon...
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