Pascal Couchepin has read «The insurrection of particularities».»

In his column, the former Federal Councillor shares a book that has had a profound effect on him. This month, he comments on Chantal Delsol's latest essay, which aims to characterize the situation of the contemporary individual.

«God is dead, Marx is dead and I don't feel well.» Thus Chantal Delsol quotes Woody Allen to characterize the situation of the contemporary individual. How did we get here? The causes of this disenchantment are the subject of the best and longest part of Delsol's latest book. According to Delsol, these causes are, as her profession demands, philosophical. We live in a fragmented world that has provoked an insurrection of particularities. Each person cultivates his or her own ego, which has become the center of the universe. The «common» is no longer attractive.

Our society has been shaped by Christianity interpreted in the terms of Greek philosophy. The Church, penda