Read more Alain Finkielkraut talks with Albert Ogien and Jean-François Braunstein, who have each published two essays on the subject: the first, Emancipations, Luttes mineures, luttes universelles? (ed. Textuel) and the second, La religion woke (ed. Grasset). With his guests, he revisits the notion of wokeism, this word derived from the English expression "être woke", literally meaning "to be awake", and asks as a first question: "How do you recognize a woke professor, an activist, a woke researcher?"
"A wave of madness and intolerance is overwhelming the Western world. Coming from American universities, the woke religion, the religion of the "awakened", is sweeping everything in its path: universities, schools and high schools, businesses, media and culture. In the name of the fight against discrimination, it is teaching truths that are, to say the least, unprecedented." Jean-François Braunstein, La religion woke
"The oppositions - so common - between universality and particularity, social question and racial question, Republic and "politics of identities" are misleading. Any struggle for emancipation - feminist, decolonial, homosexual, etc. - however particular it may be, always carries within it a part of the universal." Albert Ogien, Emancipations, Luttes minoritaires, luttes universelles?
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Alain Finkielkraut talks with Albert Ogien et Jean-François Braunstein, which each published two essays on the question: the first, Emancipations, Minority Struggles, Universal Struggles ? (Textuel ed.) and the second, Woke religion (ed. Grasset). With his guests, he revisits the notion of wokism, this word derived from the English expression “to be woke”, literally meaning “to be awake”, and asks as its first question: “How do you recognize a woke professor, activist, researcher?”
"A wave of madness and intolerance is sweeping the Western world. Coming from American universities, the woke religion, the religion of the "awakened", is sweeping everything in its path: universities, schools and high schools, businesses, media and culture.
In the name of the fight against discrimination, she teaches truths that are, to say the least, unprecedented." Jean-François Braunstein, Woke religion
« The oppositions – so common – between universality and particularity, social question and racial question, Republic and “politics of identities” are misleading. Any struggle for emancipation – feminist, decolonial, homosexual, etc. – however particular it may be, always carries within it a part of the universal." Albert Ogien, Emancipations, Minority Struggles, Universal Struggles ?
51 min
7 min
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