Emmanuelle Henin: "A wish for 2023, to defend freedom of thought!"

2022-12-29T20:02:42.920Z

TRIBUNE – The academic, professor of comparative literature at the Sorbonne, delivers a sharp reflection on the harmfulness of the “woke surge” and welcomes the new essay by Bérénice Levet * devoted to this subject.

Le Courage de la dissidence

: the title is well chosen, as Bérénice Levet does not lack the courage to tackle, book after book, contemporary impostures.

After gender theory, feminism, progressivism, environmentalism, here is wokism, at the same time sum, apogee and quintessence of the previous currents.

Attempts have multiplied this year (Jean-François Braunstein, Anne de Guigné, Xavier-Laurent Salvador, Jean Szlamowicz, among others) to make a diagnosis and understand the origin of this ideological invasion from America.

As early as 1994, Pascal Bruckner warned us:

"It would be presumptuous to believe oneself immune forever from American contagion"

, before Régis Debray confirmed the realization of this prediction in

Civilization.
How We Became Americans

(2017).

We are there, and the observation is clear: France is not spared by the woke wave, which is sweeping Western Europe, despite its history...

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