Read moreSociologist Albert Ogien. YANN LEGENDRE Director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research and lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, the sociologist has been working for ten years with the philosopher Sandra Laugier on democracy through political protest movements. In his latest book, Emancipations. Minority struggles, universal struggles? (Textual, 160 pages, 17,90 euros), it examines the scope of contemporary struggles for emancipation. What was the trigger for this book? First, there is the irritation caused by the determination of circles hostile to "wokeism" to develop a negationist discourse on the subject of discrimination suffered by people because of gender, skin colour, religion or sexual orientation. It is quite disconcerting to hear about well-documented inequalities and injustices as if they were nothing more than an opinion based on ideological bias. Also read the column: Article reserved for our subscribers "Wokists and environmentalists have in common that they are the targets of the same rhetorical devices" But that's not all: these censors have set up a thought police in order to prohibit the dissemination of information that could justify the merits of demands for equality, measures in favor of racialized populations or the need to heal the wounds of the Algerian war. In the academic world, the same people have established, with the support of circles close to power, a witch hunt, an atmosphere of denunciation and the tracking down of teaching and research topics that displease them. By calmly analyzing the facts of discrimination which mark French society, this little book aims to be an antidote to this ordinary hatred. You also explore the difficulty of the left, steeped in Marxist culture, in approaching these particular struggles... This is the other problem at the origin of this book. A conviction is rooted in left-wing thought: emancipation can only be that of all humanity and depends on the destruction of the capitalist system by the proletariat. There are actually two ways of looking at emancipation: from the notion of alienation or from that of discrimination. In the first case, the lever is the class struggle; in the second, the class struggle against misogyny, racism, Islamophobia or homophobia. Also read the article: Article reserved for our subscribers “The word “woke” has been transformed into an instrument for concealing racial discrimination” This book shows that the opposition between these two fights is artificial. He proposes to consider emancipation in its practical aspect: as a collective struggle which aims to remove a discriminated social group from the minority situation in which it is arbitrarily placed. This shows that each of these particular struggles promotes elements of universality: equality of rights and respect for the dignity of people. You have 52.24% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
Director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research and lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, the sociologist has been working for ten years with the philosopher Sandra Laugier on democracy through political protest movements. In his latest book, Emancipations. Minority struggles, universal struggles? (Textual, 160 pages, 17,90 euros), it examines the scope of contemporary struggles for emancipation.
What was the trigger for this book?
First, there is the irritation caused by this determination of circles hostile to "wokeism" to develop a negationist discourse on the subject of discrimination suffered by people because of gender, skin color, religion or sexual orientation. It is quite disconcerting to hear talk of perfectly documented inequalities and injustices as if it were only an opinion based on an ideological bias.
Also read the column: Article reserved for our subscribers "Wokists and environmentalists have in common that they are the targets of the same rhetorical devices"
But that's not all: these censors have set up a thought police to prohibit the dissemination of information that might justify the merits of demands for equality, measures in favor of racialized populations or the need to heal the wounds of the Algerian War. In the academic world, the same people have established, with the support of circles close to power, a witch hunt, an atmosphere of denunciation and the tracking down of teaching and research topics that displease them. By calmly analyzing the facts of discrimination that mark French society, this little book aims to be an antidote to this ordinary hatred.
You also explore the difficulty of the left, steeped in Marxist culture, in approaching these particular struggles...
This is the other disorder at the origin of this book. A conviction is rooted in left-wing thought: emancipation can only be that of all humanity and depends on the destruction of the capitalist system by the proletariat. There are in fact two ways of considering emancipation: from the notion of alienation or that of discrimination. In the first case, the lever is the class struggle; in the second, those against misogyny, racism, Islamophobia or homophobia.
Also read the column: Article reserved for our subscribers "The word 'woke' has been transformed into an instrument to conceal racial discrimination"
This book shows that the opposition between these two struggles is artificial. It proposes to consider emancipation in its practical aspect: as a collective struggle that aims to remove a discriminated social group from the minority situation in which it is arbitrarily placed. This allows us to show that each of these particular struggles promotes elements of universality: equality of rights and respect for the dignity of people.
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