Some may remember was the upset Philippe Val, almost haggard, who came to express their grief and indignation on TV trays in the days following the murders of January 7. Philippe Val, former director of Charlie Hebdo, had lost some of his closest friends, including Cabu and Wolinski he loved as brothers. The man was shaken, he needed to talk. This book written in the weeks that followed the massacres retains something of the cry, some rage anime. Controlled fury, argued but necessarily seem excessive to those who are the author's target. The burn required, when called Philippe Val and we had this singular companionship, not to be silent, not to wrap it in silk truth that one feels, even break lances. Yes controversy Val and his speech flay many ears, especially among sociologists Bourdieu it challenges. But before Bourdieu, especially the followers of Bourdieu, there was Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philippe Val liable for the subsequent excesses. Val is Rousseau with his myth of the noble savage and its rejection of the institution is at the origin of the decline of individual responsibility and construction of personality-through social exchange. What came to bring sociologists who claim Bourdieu, according to Val, it's a form of determinism, the lives inevitably causing some reactions, these being justified in advance, regardless of their relevance and sometimes their crimes . This is obviously there may be discussed: the answer to this question of the determination is unique to each and probably can not be exclusive. But we must recognize that the systematic bias in favor of those considered to be "dominated" can quickly lead us to excuse all individual and collective drifts. Philippe Val think the French company is the highest point reached by this evil, Bourdieu's sociology therein intellectual Vulgate. Thus we would not see the rise of radical Islamism, of anti-Semitism and fundamentalism being minimized by desire solidarity with immigrants essentialised victim even beyond its terms objective existence. The same reading prism can be applied to many subjects and Philippe Val did not deny. That's the main focus of this book, written in a hurry, but well written with some very fine pages on friendship. Furthermore Val has a true culture, nothing technocratic or university, and a wide experience of life. His fight joins other voices today who refuse complacency Left communitarians. The standoff is engaged, Philippe Val is well prepared to face the controversy.
