The Republic, Community, Privatization

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[...] Primarily because communalism locks individuals into a group identity, encloses individuals in a particular system standards, it submits individual choices to group preferences and "limited view destroys the freedom to think and act" (Taguieff). As Taguieff points out, there is then a delegitimization of the individualistic and universalist principle of free inquiry, an essential component of the rational idea of "think for yourself". One message remains: "it's good, it's beautiful, it's just because it's our". The argument from authority paralyzes any collective deliberation. Liberal multiculturalists are thus faced with the contradiction that their policies do not make more free individual, but make it subservient to the group. [...]

[...] The Republic is the promotion of a common area, free of identity passions and friction they can generate. This does not mean that multiculturalism, identities, and the republican model is incompatible. As rightly said Philippe Raynaud in the text "the tyranny of the majority to the tyranny of minorities," the Republican approach promotes an emancipated individual who will certainly require its particularity is not repressed, but it can not be argued that it is recognized as part of the public sphere. [...]

[...] A / The misdeeds of the privatization of public space We must first clarify that it is not a question of opposing a multicultural society to a "monocultural" society. Our society is multicultural, and is a long time. She characterizes not only France since the 30 boom. We have always had several cultures cohabiting in our territory. The problem is not the factual multiculturalism, as Pierre-André Taguieff in "the Republic bogged down," but the policy of multiculturalism, that is to say communitarianism. In a communal setting, the specifics founded a political identity, recognized as such within the public space. [...]

[...] This community provides a transcendence of features, and it can exist without a cooling of passions identity nor without relativisation of opinions. It is not a tyranny of the majority. Internalization of identities is valued to produce social ties between citizens, between individuals perceiving themselves as similar, emphasizing active citizenship to a passive individualism. As we have seen, the factual Multiculturalism is in no way incompatible with the republican model. It is the policy of multiculturalism, called communitarianism or differentialism, which can not coexist with the Republic. Faced with intrinsic drifts communalism, republican values may still seem relevant. [...]

[...] The reactions to the Muhammad cartoons and the film "The Last Temptation of Christ" are shown. However, the opinions, even related to his identity must still be discussed. As Taguieff highlights, for the quote again, "the absolutism of the difference is the founding principle of racism." Communitarianism generates collective egotism, friction and hatred. In a way, communitarianism and apartheid regimes are cousins. Faced with setbacks that may arise communalism, it is now necessary to explain how our republican model challenged, sometimes with reason, remains relevant. [...]