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Qui sommes-nous vraiment, nous qui avons affiché une telle détermination dans le refus de la violence aveugle et notre foi dans la République le 11 janvier dernier ?
La cartographie et la sociologie des trois à quatre millions de marcheurs parisiens et provinciaux réservent bien des surprises. Car si Charlie revendique des valeurs libérales et républicaines, les classes moyennes réelles qui marchèrent en ce jour d'indignation avaient aussi en tête un tout autre programme, bien éloigné de l'idéal proclamé. Leurs valeurs profondes évoquaient plutôt les moments tristes de notre histoire nationale conservatisme, égoïsme, domination, inégalité.
La France doit-elle vraiment continuer de maltraiter sa jeunesse, rejeter à la périphérie de ses villes les enfants d'immigrés, reléguer au fond de ses départements ses classes populaires, diaboliser l'islam, nourrir un antisémitisme de plus en plus menaçant ?
Identifier les forces anthropologiques, religieuses, économiques et politiques qui nous ont menés au bord du gouffre, indiquer les voies difficiles, incertaines, mais possibles d'un retour à la véritable République, telle est l'ambition qui anime ce livre.
Emmanuel Todd est historien et anthropologue. Il a notamment publié Le Destin des immigrés (Seuil, 1994 et "Points Essais", 1997), Le Rendez-vous des civilisations (Seuil/République des idées, 2007, avec Y. Courbage), Après la démocratie (Gallimard, 2008) et Le Mystère français (Seuil/République des idées, 2013, avec H. Le Bras).
Ebook Qui est Charlie ? Sociologie d'une crise religieuse Sociologie d'une crise religieuse HC essais French Edition edition by Emmanuel Todd Politics Social Sciences eBooks
"An excellent psychological book by a brilliant sociologist that shows the whole masquerade around Charlie. It exposes the double standards by which Charlie Hebdo operates and how the propaganda is cooked in their kitchen to be spoon fed to the masses. The VERY newspaper that had dismissed the famous French Cartoonist "Sine" for an allegedly antisemitic drawing is continuously harping on Islam and Catholicism.
The author also shows, with supporting evidence, that Charlie protesters are mostly Christian upper middle class who devote a form of hatred for Muslims under the guise of secularism and Republic. Through several surveys, it highlights the case of Lyon and Marseille, where the extent of participation were totally different because the popular classes have hardly participated in the demonstrations!
I don't know of any intellectual in France who does not consider Emmanuel Todd as one of the greatest contemporary French sociologists. With "Who is Charlie?" the master gives the final work. An absolute masterpiece that will enrich your library.
Emmanuel Todd Congratulations for this great work"
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Qui est Charlie ? Sociologie d'une crise religieuse Sociologie d'une crise religieuse HC essais French Edition edition by Emmanuel Todd Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
- Excellent book, excellent analysis. There is a lot of information in this book. One may agree or disagree on the conclusion, but the data and the analysis are all in there.
- A year ago, millions of people took to the streets in France in the aftermath of terrorist attacks against a magazine and a store. The consensus opinion was that those who participated expressed solidarity with the victims and stood up to defend free expression if not the French Republic itself. Emmanuel Todd disagrees. Rather, he sees the demonstrations as a fascist expression of xenophobia designed to reinforce the power of the rich over French society. If that were all the book offered, it would be of little interest. But Emmanuel Todd goes far beyond that to lay out a case for what is wrong with France today. He provides his vision for the future of France and how France can be "saved". His vision is that Islam can serve as the foundation for a new more "equal" France. He sees Islam as a progressive force in French politics that can counter the evils of (a) the rich, (b) Christianity, (c) old people, (d) the Germans, (e) the EU and (f) all those people in France who don't share his politics. The book's arguments are so absolutely crazy that it might be taken as parody if it had not been written by a serious author.
He starts off with the concept that would be more at home in medieval Europe or modern Pakistan. That blasphemy is wrong and should be discouraged. He selectively turns his back on a couple hundred years of French secularism in favor of a public role for religion. Of course not ALL religions. Certainly NOT socially damaging religions like Christianity. But Islam is (somehow) different. His logic as to why is rather thin. He somewhat falls back on the old idea that rights like Freedom of Expression should not be absolute. That rights should be contextualized in terms of the identity of those expressing themselves and the target of their expression. Leading to the conclusion that while blasphemy as a whole should not be punished in France, blasphemy against Islam should be punished.
Then he really goes off the deep end. He tries to make an elaborate argument that the roots of all France's problems are to be found in Religion, the Family and regional differences in France. Its an elaborate expression of xenophobia and bigotry dressed up as statistical social sciences. He has numbers and graphs to "prove" everything. But what he proves in the end is little more than that those who think and vote like him are "good" people while those who don't have been poisoned by Christianity, the region of France in which they were born or the beliefs of their parents. Its a rather stupid argument. In particular because it neglects the basic truth that inequality in France isn't a matter of political beliefs, but rather a matter of social practice. There are French people in "progressive" parts of France who say one thing and do another.
The decline of Christianity in France doesn't stop him blaming Christianity for those things he doesn't like. Christianity may be in decline, but he holds that there are many in France who a Crypto-Christians (or Zombie Christians as he calls them) who apparently are controlled by subconscious Christianity. That subconscious Christianity forces them somehow to irrationally hate Islam.
In the book, the author offers up a very specific vision for the future of France. France must leave the EU, economically isolate itself and then internally spend its way to prosperity. Isolationism will defeat the "German" enemy. Islam on the other hand will defeat "Zombie Christianity" and destroy regionalism in France.
The author sees Islam and Islamic culture as egalitarian while Christianity is anti-egalitarian. He sees Islam as a "base" on which France can be socially reconstructed. But he is absolutely cynical about it. Islam is a means to an end egalitarianism. Outside of that, Islam is to be "shaped" by the old methods that the French Republic used on French Catholicism. Religion will be shaped in subtle ways to align with state goals and gradually be hollowed out until Muslims (over time) become "Zombie" Muslims just as the state made "Zombie" Christians. Belief will be boiled out and all that will be left is the base of egalitarianism on which to rebuild true republican socialism in France.
He is dismissive of the idea that any political actions in French Islam are related to international events. To him, that is all mirage. Anything happening in France is explained by poverty. Dead stop. Fix the poverty and they will not care about Palestinians or Iraqis or Syrians. The author does not at all see the contradiction. He puts his hope in Islamic egalitarianism but at the same time he sees that egalitarianism as being something that can be undermined through material prosperity. But how can it be done selectively such that people DONT care about international issues but some how DO care about domestic ones.
Ultimately, without saying it, what the author seems to want is to re-make France into something like Nasser's Egypt or Syria/Algeria of the 1970s. He wants to bring Arab Socialism to France. As with with Arab Socialist movements, he wants a sort of power-sharing agreement where socialism will control the state while religion (through violence) is allowed to control the street & neighborhood. The assumption being that the power of religion at the bottom will wither away under socialist government. Unfortunately for Emmanuel Todd, in practice it was socialism that withered away in places like Egypt rather than religion.
The author is often given more credit than he deserves because he wrote a paper in the 1970s predicting the "fall" of the Soviet Union. Though for those few who have actually read his paper, the credit given him for that prediction is overstated. Its never said for example, that while he saw the Soviet Union in decline, he saw the states of Eastern Europe as doing better. His predictions that East Germany and Poland were going to economically surpass the Soviet Union didn't quite turn out the way he thought. The problem is that he made a prediction that turned out to be true. But the basis for his predictions didn't hold up.
The analysis in the book is useless. The author attempts to prove his own biases by presenting a mountain of questionable data. Any attempt to characterize the participants of the "Charlie" demonstrations would be difficult. But to come to the conclusion that the demonstrations were demographically, politically and economically narrow seems impossible to sustain. The problem he faces is not only the characterization of those who participated, but the identification of those who did not. If the demonstrations were as narrow as he suggests, one would expect to see different reactions from those who represented "broader" France. Who are the people at the time who shared Emmanuel Todd's views?
The book is ultimately a very cynically constructed polemic. He was looking for attention and he got it. The problem however is that while he got the attention, he did nothing useful with it. There is no real message in the book that is going to go anywhere. Complaining about old people, Christians, the Germans and the rich isn't exactly new in France. Just about the only thing new in the book is his attempt to revive blasphemy as a moral (if not legal) wrong. - An excellent psychological book by a brilliant sociologist that shows the whole masquerade around Charlie. It exposes the double standards by which Charlie Hebdo operates and how the propaganda is cooked in their kitchen to be spoon fed to the masses. The VERY newspaper that had dismissed the famous French Cartoonist "Sine" for an allegedly antisemitic drawing is continuously harping on Islam and Catholicism.
The author also shows, with supporting evidence, that Charlie protesters are mostly Christian upper middle class who devote a form of hatred for Muslims under the guise of secularism and Republic. Through several surveys, it highlights the case of Lyon and Marseille, where the extent of participation were totally different because the popular classes have hardly participated in the demonstrations!
I don't know of any intellectual in France who does not consider Emmanuel Todd as one of the greatest contemporary French sociologists. With "Who is Charlie?" the master gives the final work. An absolute masterpiece that will enrich your library.
Emmanuel Todd Congratulations for this great work
