by Jean Ziegler · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020089845
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«Vive le pouvoir ! Ou les délices de la raison d'Etat» is the political science essay by Jean Ziegler, published by Seuil in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Essay in which Jean Ziegler denounces the reason of state as supreme law and the dominance of Realpolitik. The author examines the degeneration of socialism after 1981, the French neocolonial empire in Africa, and France's role as the third-largest arms seller. Born of anger, the book calls for a new solidarity-based reason against the state order.
Published in November 1985, with ISBN 9782020089845. Work framed in history and political science.
Work of interest to a general audience interested in political essays and critical analysis of the reason of state.
Jean Ziegler is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
