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plats de saison: journal de l'année 2000
Y a-t-il une raison objective pour que la dernière année d’un siècle soit plus remarquable ou moins désastreuse que les autres ? Par l’effet de quelle magie un décompte chronologique inventé par l’homme et n’existant que dans son esprit aurait-il une influence sur la teneur même de l’histoire ? Combien de fois, pourtant, n’avons-nous pas lu ou entendu : « En l’an 2000, il n’est plus possible de … », en « En l’an 2000, il est indispensable que… » ? Ce chiffre, simple convention, a peut-être néanmoins incité les hommes à un retour sur eux-mêmes. Les a-t-il rendus plus intelligents, plus sages, plus moraux, plus fraternels, plus sincères, plus tolérants ? C’est ce qu’a essayé de vérifier Jean-François Revel en scrutant au jour le jour les particularités les plus frappantes de l’actualité nationale et internationale, politique et culturelle, avec les réflexions qu’elles lui inspiraient au fil du temps.
448 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
About the author
Jean-François Revel
88 books109 followersJean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française since June 1998.
He was best known for his books Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information and his 2002 book Anti-Americanism, one year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In the latter book, Revel criticised those Europeans who argued that the United States had brought about the terrorist attacks upon itself through misguided foreign policies. He wrote thus: "Obsessed by their hatred and floundering in illogicality, these dupes forget that the United States, acting in her own self-interest, is also acting in the interest of us Europeans and in the interests of many other countries, threatened, or already subverted and ruined, by terrorism." In 1975 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: La tentation totalitaire (The Totalitarian Temptation).
He was best known for his books Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information and his 2002 book Anti-Americanism, one year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In the latter book, Revel criticised those Europeans who argued that the United States had brought about the terrorist attacks upon itself through misguided foreign policies. He wrote thus: "Obsessed by their hatred and floundering in illogicality, these dupes forget that the United States, acting in her own self-interest, is also acting in the interest of us Europeans and in the interests of many other countries, threatened, or already subverted and ruined, by terrorism." In 1975 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, The Netherlands, under the title: La tentation totalitaire (The Totalitarian Temptation).
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