Tales of the end of the world have been told throughout the ages, and still exist today. These dire predictions conceal...
DOSSIER «LA FIN DU MONDE» | On les qualifie parfois de « prophètes de l’Apocalypse », ou de « catastrophistes déraisonnables ». Malgré tout, au-delà de la caricature, les tenants de cette « science de l’effondrement » ont un discours tout à fait construit, rationnel et digne d’intérêt.
DOSSIER «FIN DU MONDE» | The Taiwan Strait crisis and Kim Jong-un's threats are rekindling tensions between the East Asian powers. With them come fears of nuclear escalation. The atomic bomb is an asset for negotiation, but without room for diplomatic dialogue, it becomes a scarecrow.
DOSSIER «LE SEXE, SANS COMPLEXE» | A partir du baiser, voici une attention particulière accordée au poème lié à la chair. Il pourrait avoir trois fonctions. Il empêcherait le souvenir de mourir. Il pourrait se faire témoin du grave et, n’étant pas commercial, il ne serait pas en mesure d’être pornographique.
The fateful moment is approaching. Never before has the People's Republic of China (PRC) been so ready to undertake its historic mission: to complete the reunification of China and wash away the affronts of a century of humiliation. Beijing has long been preparing for this, as have Taipei and Washington. While all options are on the table, there is no guarantee that this operation will be the prelude to a new confrontation between the great powers. Here are three main scenarios, and the issues that underlie them.
DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The prohibition of prostitution in certain European countries seems inconsistent, since pornography is legal there. Wouldn't a sound policy be to act upstream, to avoid encouraging on the Internet what we proscribe on the street, or to accept, like the old-timers, that it's better to regulate it, because it's a phenomenon that is, after all, inevitable?
What if Europe lay in the antagonism born of the Renaissance between the Christian and scientific worldviews? This opposition has always been present in different forms at different times. Today, it has taken on a new dimension: some argue that a materialistic reading of the world is now impossible, given current physical theories.
DOSSIER «VOUS AVEZ DIT EUROPE?», Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard | C’est une figure intellectuelle majeure du XXe siècle, un Suisse de surcroît, dont on entend très peu parler. La paresse y est sans doute pour beaucoup, puisque toute l’œuvre de Denis de Rougemont est accessible gratuitement sur internet depuis 2020, grâce au travail de plusieurs chercheurs de l’Université de Genève. Cet écrivain foisonnant a consacré une grande partie de son œuvre à l’Europe qu’il voyait écrasée entre les deux superpuissances américaine et soviétique. Dans sa Lettre ouverte aux européens de 1970 – un plaidoyer pour l’identité culturelle européenne – l’écrivain genevois défend l’idée d’un fédéralisme intégral, appuyé sur un régionalisme opposé à toute forme de nationalisme moderne. Sa réflexion sur l’unité de l’Europe s’avère plus pertinente que jamais. Bref tour d’horizon.
The frontier, increasingly decried in Western countries over the past sixty decades, is now making a comeback. Talk of a world without borders is no longer so appealing, for a number of reasons. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a powerful demonstration of the absurdity of talking about independence without territory. What's more, it's clear that the idea of a united Europe in the face of the many challenges of our times (war, terrorism, immigration...) requires recognition of its external borders, which are extensions of the internal borders of the countries that make it up. Borders are the markers of a country's history: they define its contours, not only geographically, but also culturally. At least, that's the idea behind Régis Debray's Eloge des frontières.
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