Our public institutions, stemming from Modernity, are essentially based on faith in science and reason, which have been irrigating our philosophies for four centuries and whose basis is the principle of non-contradiction that comes to us from the Greeks.
This belief is greatly weakened at the beginning of the 21st century, due to the failure of the ideals linked to Progress, environmental disasters, as well as, more profoundly but, less well known, the gradual discovery of the radical incompleteness of mathematics, therefore of all science and therefore of all modeling.
However, our current public institutions have become inefficient and unreformable.
Every day, life invents new things in our society and new solidarity is forged.
This book shows what is emerging at the heart of society, outside of institutions, emergences based on discretion, fragility, simplicity, openness, solidarity, but also welcoming the structural and structuring uncertainty of our daily lives.
Affirming the end of the so-called Modern period and its shift towards a more open world, this text argues for a philosophy that detaches the science of technoscience and puts science and reason at a second place in relation to life and existence, where paradoxes reign and rational discourse gives way to sensitivity. , art and poetry.

Our public institutions have been built on the philosophical foundations of science and reason. At the beginning of the 21st century, they are cracking under the collapse of the belief in Progress, environmental disasters, as well as the gradual discovery of the radical incompleteness of mathematics, thus of all science and therefore of all modeling.
The problem is structurally insurmountable, our public institutions are running out of steam irretrievably.
The thesis defended in this book is to affirm that the belief in the operational power of science and non-contradictory reason, once effective, is now exhausted. Are our public institutions reformable? The answer here is no, because their sap is dried up.
But new germinations, capable of welcoming the structural and structuring uncertainty of everyday life, appear at the heart of our society, and herald its shift towards a more open world, allowing us to regain confidence in the future. Their emergence is based on otherness which becomes the new name of brotherhood, where the desire for the risk of uncontrollable encounter flourishes.
Here, the author questions the foundations of our public institutions at the crossroads of several disciplines, science, technology, philosophy and economics. Beyond his expertise as an engineer nourished by philosophy, he adopts the bias of the citizen, who denounces the excesses of the supremacy of technoscience threatening our democracies, and welcomes changes on the margins of our society as signs that a new era is opening up for us.

Life invents new things every day in our society where new solidarity is forged. The values that underlie them are no longer, as in the old days of Modernity, based on belief in the mastery and power of technology and science, but on otherness, that is, on the fluid and unpredictable relationships that connect humans to each other and, at the level of our planet, humans, the living and things. , opening the ecological moment in which we entered.
New institutions emerge from this common that appears, at low noise, in the horizontality of society. They are based on non-power and non-permanence, and they are plastic and in continuous transformation. To think about them, we need to revisit our philosophies.
In this book, the author turns to philosophies for which reason becomes second in relation to life and existence, where paradoxes prevail and where rational and scientific discourse gives way to sensitivity, art and poetry. These philosophies of freedom, of the coming and the impossible, are rooted in the thoughts of existence and the unspeakable, at the crossroads of immanence and transcendence, marginalized in favour of purely rational philosophies dominant in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, they find a space of unexpected deployment, which activates the encounter, on a scale of the planet, between the wisdoms and spirituality of different civilizations. Irrigating a new anthropology, they open new and exciting paths for thought and action through the uncertainty and incompleteness of our world.

Building a societal democracy
This book is not yet another analysis of the political crisis. It starts from the reality of contemporary individualism and looks for ways to take into account the tremendous potential of citizen energy, too neglected by politicians who are struggling to understand it.
A radically different democracy is possible without the need to reform the constitution first. What is at stake is our ability to come together to tackle the problems we face in concrete terms: those of school, health, safety…
Our democratic life would emerge from the desolate spectacle in which it locks itself in if it adopts forms of continuous interaction with citizens. Reducing democracy to the electoral game alone now reinforces populism.
Utopian? Surely if nothing is done to explore the "citizenship deposits" that lie dormant. We propose a proactive policy of developing an "enterprising citizenship" with concrete proposals fed by ten years of reflection and experimentation within the Workshops of Citizenship.
This book is aimed at all those who are interested in politics but can no longer stand the way in which our public life is organized, to all those who want to act but do not act because they do not find their place…