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Francois Rastier

The Left Can Still Avoid Its Own Decay

*This column first appeared in L'Obs on March 22, 2021 under the title given by the weekly newspaper: “Are “white privilege” and “dominant male” in

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A racialist and anti-secular left?

[by François Rastier] On the international level, France has been the preferred target of Islamists in Europe for thirty years, both because of its particular attachment to

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Decolonial Tyrannies

[by François RASTIER]originally published on the Point website More than half a century after the end of colonizations, at least Western colonizations, decolonialism, ideology

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Islamism and Postmodern Thinkers

By François Rastier The "revolutionary" turn of Islamism was variously announced. In his book, Revolutionary Islam (2003), Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos[1], already invited, with

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Postcolonial communities

by François Rastier The theme of Community is central in postcolonial studies. Tillotama Rajan, in an article in Postcolonial Text, recounts his

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The West is to blame

by François RASTIER 1/ The strange Westernism The West remains a confused essentialization which took on a media consistency with The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler (1918-1922),

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How Anti-Semitism Deconstructs Anti-Zionism

By François Rastier Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder, two internationally renowned postmodern philosophers, recently published a programmatic collection: Deconstructing Zionism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Their introduction

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From inclusive writing to translanguage

By François Rastier A fundamental principle of the contemporary economy, deregulation extends from the economic world to the social world, notably through the Internet. Large firms

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Decolonial tyrants, ordinary fascists

More than half a century after the end of Western colonization, decolonialism is experiencing a remarkable boom. At the risk of twisting certain historical truths…More than half a century after the end

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