All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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Has the Traditional French Republican Model Failed? Intellectual Debates
| This paper analyses aspects of the recent controversies in intellectual circles over the nature, the causes, and effects of the many-sided crisis allegedly afflicting France. It takes the polemics surrounding Daniel Lindenberg’s denunciation of the ‘new reactionaries’ in 2002 as a starting-point for examining current divisions among intellectuals on a range of overlapping issues, featuring partisans of liberalism versus defenders of various forms of statism, or of multiculturalist versus integrationist conceptions of society, alongside feverish exchanges of accusations of antisemitism/antijudaism or antiarabism/anti-islamism — often correlating with pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian positions alongside wider reflections on the deficiencies of French foreign policy, the constraints on France’s position in Europe and the more general limitations of French international influence. Whilst these debates have substance insofar as there are real policy dilemmas and real domestic or international problems to be addressed, it is argued in the article that the crisis may lie more in the present febrile conditions of French intellectual life than in the overall situation of the country. Some of these factors relate to ongoing processes of ideological fragmentation and reconfiguration which have accelerated in the post-Cold-War period. Others relate to the structures or dynamics of the French, and more particularly the Parisian, intellectual milieu itself.
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