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Society is changing, and politics also

Abstract

François Ascher’s central thesis is that while politics appears to many as going through a deep crisis, the cause is in fact the obsolescence of the institutions and mechanisms that ensure the functioning and regulation of a society that has become otherwise hypermodern. For example, how to organise a representative democracy when individuals belong simultaneously to different social groups, exercise diverse territories and have very heterogeneous interests? How can public actions be adapted to different social contexts where the criteria of justice and efficiency differ? How can we help the development of the capitalism of knowledge and the environment and make it available to the people and territories for which we are responsible at a time when this new economy is necessarily globalised? How can public action be supported on the development of science and technology without giving up power to experts? What types of public authorities are developing to promote and defend new individual rights? François Ascher in his earlier works had highlighted the main features of hypermodernity. With this book, it draws political conclusions and highlights the structural reforms needed to preserve and promote democracy and the Republic. This is an original approach that is not part of political sociology or political philosophy, but is based on a socio-economic analysis of the dynamics of contemporary society. This results in original proposals that lie ahead of the usual political divides, at the level of “political” rather than “political”.

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