Date 19 August 2022
Pages 71
Format cm 11 x 18
Price € 9.00
EAN 9782369563143
Publisher Website www.editionsintervalles.com

Cancel!

From Cultural Censorship to Censoring Culture
Publisher Intervalles
COLLECTION Le point sur les idées
Retracing the history of "cancel culture," Hubert Heckmann delivers a scathing reflection alerting us to the dark places this phenomenon could potentially lead us.

What do the English buzzwords "cancel culture"? Do they refer simply to a "culture of erasure," as the Académie française might have it? The history of cancel culture from its roots in progressive American movements defending minorities, placed into a broader historical perspective of censoring opinions and works, helps us understand the dangers that threaten the debate over ideas and art today in France. The expression "cancel culture" might well be controversial, but it nonetheless describes something very real: a culture of censorship establishing itself under our very noses, in the name of our best intentions.