Philosophy lunch - Desires for justice
"Social, environmental and political emergencies are intensifying and we have never seemed so helpless to respond to them. Long a driver of progress, the desire for justice today seems to divide us, to the point of feeding a worrying collective paralysis, when it does not lead to disconcerting social and political regressions. To break out of this impasse, Patrick Savidan seeks to understand why our aspirations to justice end up opposing and neutralising each other. Through an analysis of contemporary dilemmas – between equity and efficiency, redistribution and recognition, social justice and ecological transition – he sheds light on the tensions that traverse our ideals. His inquiry, nourished both by philosophy and by observation of the social world, opens the way to a renewal of the meaning of justice, carried by a critique of political egoism and the proposal of a neo-solidarism capable of restoring fecundity to our conflicts and breath to the idea of progress".
Patrick Savidan, Desires for justice
