PENSER A DEER AND LIVE – Olivier Frérot

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.

CITIZEN FOR WHAT? Hervé Chaygneaud-Dupuy

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…