Date 27 March 2019
Pages 172
Format cm 13 x 19
Price € 15.00
EAN 9782130817505
Publisher Website www.puf.com

1938: History Repeating

Publisher PUF
Keywords Conflict
Why can 1938 tell us so much about the present moment?

A philosopher worried about the present day chanced upon surprise after surprise while idly exploring the year 1938. Above and beyond such well-known milestones as the Munich Agreement and the so-called "weakness of democracies," he discovered facts, but also language, logic, and obsessions oddly parallel to those of today. The relinquishing of politics to the Popular Front , an insatiable thirst for authority, increasingly incantatory calls for democracy to counter the rise of nationalisms, immense fatigue with regard to law and justice: in the past, Foessel found the very image of our present.