After an introduction of the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, a parterre of academics denounced for two days “the damage of the ideology” of the deconstruction and the “Cancel Culture”, according to them new “moral order” at university.
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“Rebuild science and culture”: it is the site that a parterre of about fifty academics, eradicates and editorialists has been attributed at the Sorbonne Symposium on the 7th and 8th of January, under the leadership of the observatory of decolonialism – which focused on its first birthday – and the college of philosophy.
ADoubé by the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, who made it the introduction, the event brought together up to 600 people, two-thirds of whom attended the debates. Its object: to screen, with a hostile prism, the “decolonial thought”, the “theory of gender” and the “Cancel culture” (culture of erasure), partly imported concepts from North America and more Widely designated by the speakers under the term “wokism” (awakening to any form of discrimination), a thought that has become scarecar right, at the same time as the “Islamo-Gauchism”.
Closing guest, Thierry Courhon, President of the High Council for the evaluation of research and higher education (Hceres), appeared soon, explaining that he was not there “for Approve or not the positions “. He announced, in May, an international symposium on the social sciences. An “answer”, according to him, to another “quite incorrect debate” in February 2021 on “Islamo-Gauchism” by the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal. She had called the CNRS to conduct an investigation to distinguish research and activism. In particular, it will be question of “thinking of the interactions between the humanities and the rest of the knowledge,” Courhon said.
“Deconstruct the deconstruction”
The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, claimed, in the introduction, to adopt an “intellectual offensive” posture against “wokism”, at the moment when “there is a catch of aware that we must “deconstruct the deconstruction” and arrive at new approaches “.
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, President of the College of Philosophy, posed “deconstruction” as “a vast philosophical movement” which experienced three ages: Kantian criticism of metaphysics; criticism of human ideas, particularly worn by Nietzsche; Finally, “the thought 68” where deconstruction becomes a technique that only aims for it, according to Mr. Tavoillot. “We come to the intersectional deconstruction”, based on the idea that everything is dominated, that Western colonization represents “the apotheosis” (north / south domination, reason / emotion, man / woman, technique / nature …) and that the decolonization camouflates an exploitation still in progress, exerted by “the white male”.
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