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Jew, foreigner, white male: “The search for scapegoats is the characteristic of sick societies”

2024-02-19T16:52:28.951Z

Highlights: René Girard's work on the scapegoat remains essential for understanding the ills of our society. It is the innocent who pays for others. Jew, foreigner, white male: “The search for scapegoats is the characteristic of sick societies” “On the seventh time, the walls fell ” (Éditions du Rocher, 2023). To discover PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié.


TRIBUNE - One hundred years after the birth of René Girard, the philosopher's work on the scapegoat remains essential for understanding the ills of our society, believes the essayist* and former special advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée.


*Latest book published

: “

On the seventh time, the walls fell

” (Éditions du Rocher, 2023).

To discover

  • PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié

Who is the scapegoat?

It is the innocent who pays for others.

This furry, this mangy

 ” in the fable of Animals sick with the plague, where all the evil comes from.

The “

black bodies swaying in the southern breeze.

A strange fruit hanging from poplar trees.

The eyes rolled back and the mouth distorted

 ” in the Billie Holiday song.

The shorn woman at the Liberation, “

The unfortunate woman who remained/ On the pavement/ The reasonable victim/ With her torn dress/ With the look of a lost child

 ” (Paul Éluard).

Goat in the Bible.

Donkey in the fable.

Oedipus in Sophocles.

Christian in the Roman Empire.

Leper in the Middle Ages.

Witch in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Protestant on Saint-Barthélemy's Day.

Noble under terror.

Bourgeois during the Commune.

Armenian in the ending Ottoman Empire.

Small peasant owner under Stalin.

Jew, gypsy, homosexual for the Nazis.

Communist in America...

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Source: lefigaro

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