* Jean-Luc Nancy and Myriam Revault d'Allonnes
How does Emmanuel Macron reason? What are the philosophical foundations of his thought? What does he embody in terms of ideology? The philosophers Myriam Revault d'Allonnes, in "The spirit of macronism" (Seuil) and Jean-Luc Nancy, with "Mascarons de Macron" (Galileo) dissect the mind and body of the current president.
The philosopher and the politician have always maintained ambivalent relationships. From Plato to Machiavelli, from Hobbes to Michel Foucault, the philosopher was able to get advice from the prince as a critical analyst of the foundations of political sovereignty and the symbolism of power. In their respective works, Jean-Luc Nancy and Myriam Revault d'Allonnes take this second approach, endeavoring to understand what the current President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is the incarnation of, the paradigmatic changes he represented.
In "Macron's Mascarons", Jean-Luc Nancy thus dissects the faces of Emmanuel Macron, not so much to show his masks, because according to him, the current president is unmasked, but by identifying his masks, ornamental motifs, sculpted figures generally found on architectural buildings, loaded with immediately identifiable symbolism.
He thus establishes 22 emblematic traits, from the figure of the Young who shows his youth, to the use of the future, to the incarnation of the neoliberalism plot, to the assimilation to Louis XVI. The book was due to appear in March 2020 before being increased, to take into account what the Coronavirus crisis had revealed about Emmanuel Macron's political vision.
What Jean-Luc Nancy shows in this book is above all how the president sets up a new political anthropology, centered on reason, knowledge and self-control.
This is also what Myriam Revault d'Allonnes seeks to highlight in "The spirit of macronism or the art of deviating concepts". Taking up the approach she had already applied in a previous work on Nicolas Sarkozy ("The Compassionate Man", 2008), she scrutinizes the speeches and acts of Emmanuel Macron to understand the philosophy of the social bond that they underlying and the mental universe in which the president is part. She thus makes Emmanuel Macron the embodiment of a neoliberal rationality, founded on the idea of individual autonomy and responsibility as well as on the capacity for permanent action on reality. The philosopher analyzes the variations in presidential speeches with the Coronavirus crisis, while noting that the changes in doctrine that could be seen there had ultimately led to nothing.
This evening, the two philosophers question the presidential figure to allow us to take a step back on the news and make us aware of his inscription in a particular philosophical history.
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