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Racialism, new feminism, “cancel culture”… The first day of the conference on the question of deconstruction, in which Jean-Michel Blanquer participated, took place in a room reserved for speakers and without contradiction.
“An intellectual event.” Installed in the Sorbonne, under the golden ceilings of the Liard amphitheater where the names of Descartes and Pascal appear but also the monogram of the French Republic, this is how Jean-Michel Blanquer introduced this Friday morning the two days of the conference ” After deconstruction: rebuilding science and culture ”. These meetings, which have sparked a lot of debate in recent days, were presented by their organizers – the College of Philosophy, the Observatory of Decolonialism, the Republican Secularism Committee – as a necessary scientific meeting to clarify the clash between them. (the universalists) and the others (the intersectionals). According to Emmanuelle Hénin, professor of literature and co-organizer, the moment is marked by the“Urgent need to restore a space for dialogue and scientific controversy”.
As on the walls of the amphitheater, science and politics come together quickly, as soon as the discussions begin. His speech barely started, Jean-Michel Blanquer returns to one of his dear ideas: in terms of ecology, feminism, the fight against discrimination, “There is a“ woke ”vision of ecology and a republican vision. When we read Elisabeth Badinter, we don’t read other lesser quality writers. ”…