by Stéphane Hessel, Gilles Vanderpooten · Editions de l’Aube · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782815902298
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«Engagez-vous!» is the interview book by Stéphane Hessel and Gilles Vanderpooten, published by Editions de l’Aube in paperback (92 pages, in French).
In this conversation, Stéphane Hessel, aged 93, and Gilles Vanderpooten, aged 25, discuss the urgency of social commitment. Stéphane Hessel argues that indignation alone is not enough and calls for action for human rights, for undocumented migrants and the homeless, against inequalities and for ecology. The dialogue has an optimistic tone.
The work is part of the «Conversation pour l’avenir» collection from Editions de l’Aube and was published in March 2011.
For readers of philosophy and social thought, especially those seeking to deepen their understanding of civic commitment after «Indignez-vous!».
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
