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Jean-Marie Guénois: "Is God on the right?"

2022-11-22T19:07:04.142Z


CHRONICLE - Reading To the Right of the Father, a book edited by historian Florian Michel and sociologist Yann Raison du Cleuziou is as exciting as it is demanding.


À la gauche du Christ

was published in 2012 under the direction of Dominique Pelletier and Jean-Louis Schlegel, by Éditions du Seuil.

The other side was missing.

On the Right of the Father

has just been released by the same publisher.

His cover is no longer red, it is navy blue.

The book is edited by historian Florian Michel and sociologist Yann Raison du Cleuziou.

The study period is delivered under the subtitle: “Catholics and the Right from 1945 to the Present”.

This plural is essential.

Both for the word “Catholic” and for that of “right”.

It expresses the nuance and complexity rendered by this 775-page work.

Impossible, after reading, to come out with a caricatural idea in the singular, that of the imaginary catho of the typical right, “lodenized” and so easily mocked.

An uneven lexicon certainly offers, at the end of the volume, the words “loden”, “cornettes” or “large family” as markers, but it contains entries that are much more serious and significant.

Another originality of…

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Source: lefigaro

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