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Il N'y a Pas de Malheur Francais

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Presse, sondages et commentateurs content a l'envi la perte de confiance des Francais envers tout: leurs dirigeants, la politique, l'avenir? et nourrissent ainsi le pessimisme dont ils glosent. C'est une erreur d'appreciation radicale. D un cote, la France est soumise au meme choc que toutes les autres democraties, qui est la crise de maturite du couple de la democratie et de la modernite. Seul Tocqueville l'avait entrevu: il vient un point ou elles peuvent s'opposer et se nuire. Nous y sommes. La modernite economique et sociale venue avec la democratie parait avoir vide celle-ci de son energie.. C'est la grande lecon politique de ce debut de millenaire: la democratie n'est pas, a elle seule, une garantie de bonheur et de stabilite. Elle ne suffit pas a fournir son propre sens et son propre equilibre. Elle ne s'use pas comme organisation politique mais elle s'affadit comme societe. D un autre cote, la France est un pays unique. Depuis quatre cents ans, depuis Richelieu et l'avenement des Modernes, sa culture du pouvoir ne fait pas de place a la confiance. C'est tout simplement une categorie politique qui n'existe pas. Ce qui existe est un pouvoir qui trouve sa legitimite dans son efficacite. Pour tout et tous, l'Etat etait l'administrateur du quotidien et le garant de l'avenir: c'est cela qui se termine sous nos yeux. Dans ces conditions, les douleurs de la France ne sont pas celles de l'agonie mais de l'accouchement. Elle est en train de quitter une pensee politique vieille de quatre siecles, qui a resiste a tous les changements, et d'inventer autre chose. Et elle est dans une position unique pour y parvenir car elle seule a explore les limites mais aussi la valeur de l'Etat comme source du pouvoir legitime. Ce n'est le cas d'aucune autre democratie moderne. La reconciliation de l'autorite et de la confiance est le coeur de cette modernite politique. Parce que le pouvoir seul n'est plus assez puissant pour nous rassurer et que, desormais, il echoue a nous endormir. Et les Francais sont bien plus avances sur ce chemin que leurs souffrances ne le laissent croire. Le desir de changement existe et le desir de confiance aussi, y compris envers la politique et les dirigeants. Ils sont durement critiques mais leur role n'est pas nie. Au contraire. Le declin de la politique en France est celui de sa force, pas de son besoin. Et si les Francais paraissent attendre un miracle, ce n'est pas pour autant une chimere. Car ce miracle existe et il a un nom: c'est l'action.

About the Author :
Ne en 1954, Philippe Delmas poursuit une vie eclectique. Haut fonctionnaire, il a passe dix ans au Quai d Orsay. Industriel, il a travaille douze ans dans l'aerospatiale et fut numero deux d'Airbus pendant sept ans. Passionne d'Himalaya, il a participe a plusieurs expeditions sur des 8000 et fait d'innombrables sejours au Tibet ou il a contribue a la creation d'une ecole de guides de montagne. De ses experiences, il a tire plusieurs essais dont Le maitre des Horloges (Odile Jacob, 1992) et Le bel avenir de la guerre (Gallimard, 1995).


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  • ISBN-13: 9782246722793
  • Publisher: Grasset
  • Publisher Imprint: Grasset
  • Language: French
  • ISBN-10: 2246722799
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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