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.
News on Mondays - Clément Guntern In January 2019, in France, the grassroots «yellow vest” movement...
Les lundis de l'actualité - Jérémie Bongiovanni Last spring, Patrick Artus and Marie-Paule Virard published their book Et si...
Tuesday's Letters from French-Speaking Switzerland – Nicolas Jutzet: *Le Regard Libre* and its readers discovered Elisa Shua Dusapin thanks to...
Les lundis de l'actualité - Nicolas Jutzet The searches of October 16 could well turn into a real «sticking plaster"...
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