He has at least thirteen hats on his head, as many as the stars on his cantonal flag. At the very limited level of French-speaking Switzerland, he represents a (small) public voice. He proposes his way of seeing the world to anyone who will listen: through the Appel Citoyen movement he co-founded, the Foraus think tank he vice-chaired or the ethics laboratory he still co-directs. He also unpacks his values on 19h30 when he is invited to talk about fundamental freedom, on Le Temps when he conducts a questionnaire on sustainability, or on his blog when he analyzes current events while presenting the object of his research. And when you're a philosopher, «the object of your research» is vast. And diluted.
The year 2020, in addition to having seen a pandemic of immeasurable impact, has marked the return, or rather the rebirth, of a notion that was once thought to be obsolete, unsuitable and even dangerous: that of sovereignty. In the space of a few months, the issue has once again become central. But an anachronistic vocabulary tends to overshadow what is really at stake: not the withdrawal of nations into themselves, but the pursuit of balanced regulation of globalization.
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A desirable and necessary transformation
A few news items illustrate a little-discussed yet interesting and fundamental political reality: the presence in the contemporary ideological landscape of various irreconcilable lefts. Here are three examples.
Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern En ce mois de janvier 2019, en France, le mouvement populaire des «gilets...
Les lundis de l'actualité – Jérémie Bongiovanni Au printemps dernier paraissait l’ouvrage de Patrick Artus et Marie-Paule Virard intitulé Et si...
Les lettres romandes du mardi – Nicolas Jutzet Le Regard Libre et ses lecteurs ont découvert Elisa Shua Dusapin grâce à...
Les lundis de l’actualité – Nicolas Jutzet Les perquisitions du 16 octobre dernier pourraient bien se transformer en véritable «sparadrap...
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