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Pierre Vermeren: "Beyond the fatality of evil, the void of meaning"

2023-02-27T19:39:45.954Z


TRIBUNE - If, at all times and in all places, evil has existed, neither the market economy nor the rule of law offers an ideal for fighting against the afflictions of the soul, argues the historian and essayist*.


*Pierre Vermeren is a university professor, former professor of contemporary economic history in HEC preparation and author of numerous remarkable works.

His last essay

, L'Impasse de la métropolisation

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was published in the “Le Débat” collection at Gallimard.

Although very different in nature, the dramas experienced and caused by Pierre Palmade and the assassination of the professor from Saint-Jean-de-Luz question our humanity.

Hundreds of hours of debates have cast a harsh light on the darkness that inhabits Man.

Their emergence raises questions.

Where do the demons of our wandering humanity come from?

No one seems immune to harm.

Madness, addictions, crime, including pedophilia or murder, are always and everywhere.

Only their intensity changes.

How to circumscribe the evil that arises out of the blue?

The occurrence of tragedies - which will not be resolved by pension reform or that of the Constitution - is an opportunity to question the way in which our society takes…

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Source: lefigaro

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