EXCLUSIVE – After being deprogrammed by its publisher, the book finally seems this week to the University of France Presses. A collective book that could be a turning point in the cultural battle that is played out between wokes and antiwokes.
Rarely a book will have been so vilified before it even published. Even before anyone could read it. It is said that the world of publishing feeds on controversies, but Paul Garapon, who directs the PUF, the temple of university publishing, would have gone well from that which the announcement of the publication of Faced with obscurantism Woke . To the point that the publisher, however initiator of the project, hesitated to censor the work, undoubtedly frightened by the media campaign orchestrated by a part of the journalistic and intellectual world of the left. In the eyes of journalists of Monde and Libérationthe only title in the book was enough to disqualify it and instruct a trial in Trumpism and Putinism to its authors.
On the intellectual side, it was the historian Patrick Boucheron, professor at the Collège de France and co -author of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, who set the first arrows. Friday, March 7, during a press conference during a day of mobilization …
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