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Advent of the child king, reign of consumption, end of the magisterium of the Church, etc. : the political scientist analyzes the phenomenon affecting our society.
Interview by Saïd Mahrane
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IHe is the man who, by observing multiple weak signals, was able to give coherence to a phenomenon that has become global in our society: decivilization. Behind this word borrowed from the sociologist Norbert Elias, Jérôme Fourquet, the author of the famous French archipelago (Threshold), describes a decline in common sense, a rise in collective tensions and primary reactions as much at work, in leisure as in transport or public services. This “failure”, according to his expression, goes through small incivilities, those of everyday life that poison life, as well as through unbridled physical violence that can lead to death. The cities and the countryside, the working classes and those favored, the French as well as the immigrants are concerned by this loss…
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