Le Rappel à l'ordre

Synopsis of Le Rappel à l'ordre

«Le Rappel à l’ordre: Enquête sur les nouveaux réactionnaires» is the essay by Daniel Lindenberg, published by Seuil in paperback (94 pages).

Daniel Lindenberg portrays the «new reactionaries»: Houellebecq, Dantec, Badiou or Taguieff, united by their rejection of mass culture, sexual freedom, May 68 and «right-wing humanism». Lindenberg shows how this current, born on the left, questions the republican heritage and the French Revolution.

Published on 22 October 2002 in the «La République des idées» collection by Seuil, it is written in French.

For readers interested in the history of ideas and the French public debate on the left, republicanism and its critics.