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a decline "left left"

This book comes at ... to further complicate the current political-intellectual card. If he goes to players supposedly left confused by the generalization of an ideology called a "neoconservative" including in their own camp, he does not spare the so-called radical left, slammed for his "movementism", that is to say his refusal to listen to what intellectuals close to her have him say.



journalist and essayist Didier Eribon, close to Pierre Bourdieu, was first designed this pamphlet as a tribute to the ultimate figure of intellectual commitment. It did not take at least some distance from the criticism that he launched all-out against the media in the late 1990s. Following the author of The Weight of the World, however, he regrets that the Socialists have chosen to reject the political creativity that welled up from the "May Revolution 68" for the past twenty years, will run each day a little more in the mold of a liberal discourse of the market forming the image of the course of history.

This shift, he notes the following recent sociological studies, resulting in part from the "professionalization" of politics. Parties, gradually transformed into coalitions of elected preform segmenting the demands of their constituents in order to give them an answer as technocratic as they themselves become. This gives the amazing spectacle of presidential candidates questioned the price of school meals or closing the neighborhood bistro. But it also raises doubts about the reality of the famous "participatory democracy" as it is displayed on the left.

But that is perhaps not essential. Didier Eribon, biographer of Michel Foucault, considers that this mutation in a decline would be incomprehensible without another phenomenon, this one located in the heads and the title, a conservative revolution ... is to suggest in their minds. At the turn of 1970-1980, a reaction would awake to disruptions caused by social criticism and emancipation movements. It would have been home for a group of academics who have worked tirelessly to acclimate to the left a backward thinking, formatted for neoliberalism itself as the same need. Are particularly targeted supporters of a current called "neo-Aronian," personified by Francois Furet in particular, Marcel Gauchet Pierre Rosanvallon, the Esprit and the defunct Saint-Simon Foundation, in addition to what the supposed home supporters the "return to order" religious or patriarchal, starting with psychoanalysts. This charge

Didier Eribon added to that of Perry Anderson Columbia (Thought warm, Seuil, 2005) or the French Francois Cusset (The Decade, La Découverte, 2006), who read the intellectual history of the last two decades as a long process of fading of the French thought converted by the loss of critical dimension, the idolatry of the State nation, the resigned acceptance of domination and the "turbo-capitalism" ...
In the world of Didier Eribon saturated, the place is rare for nuances. In fact, these pages are as vehement a Western intellectual where there are "good" (Foucault, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Derrida, Guattari) and "bad" whose works are reactive or servile. A real scalp dance is conducted around the figure of Raymond Aron, without being taken into account the simple fact that liberalism is also a philosophical heritage and a political theory that it is not enough to declare the nullity to refute it. Unless falling into caricature.

A CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE FRENCH LEFT Didier Eribon. Ed Leo Scheer, 158 pages, 15 €.

Nicolas Weill

Article published in the 28/04/2007