Poor Geoffroy de Lagasnerie!
Flagship sociologist of the radical left, a fan of Bourdieu, he has no brilliant career as a class defector to tell.
Unlike his friend Édouard Louis, ex-Eddy Bellegueule, his parents, a wealthy bourgeois and aristocrat, did not call him Jeffrey.
Unlike his other friend Didier Eribon, he was not born into a family of homophobic proletarians, and we bet that
Retour à Janson-de-Sailly
(where he was in hypokhâgne) would have been less successful than
Retour à Reims.
What to do then, when one is a white male, gay, of course - but he is no longer really a victim marker in the beautiful districts of the capital -, an intellectual living comfortably from his pen, to pin on his chest the coat of arms of oppressed?
Invent a new form of oppression, of course!
And here is our Lagasnerie going on a crusade against the “existential dispossession” that constitutes “familialism”.
This is the whole object of his essay
Three.
A longing...
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