Published this October 2 and winner of the 2024 Femina essay prize, Stand your ground by Paul Audi is an essay that borrows from fiction to deal with anti-Semitism. Two friends exchange letters there and are concerned about the increase in anti-Semitic speeches and acts in France. He is speaking this evening with Eva Bester.
Excerpts broadcast:
- The song Arab Jews (2010) by Philippe Katerine
- Hannah Arendt at the microphone of Roger Errera in 1974 (Ina)
- Romain Gary in 1968 in the show “Radioscopie”
- An extract from Reveries of the solitary walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau read by Philippe Bertin
- An extract from A logical-philosophical treatise by Ludwig Wittgenstein read by Georges Claisse in 2008 on France Culture
Guest discovery:
Paul Audi introduces us to Pierre Jacerme's essay Face of Japan published by Conferences Editions, a book which allows you to “understand from the inside what Japanese culture is” thanks to the change of scenery made by its author, Paul Audi's former philosophy professor in khâgne at the Henri IV high school.
Guest's musical choice:
Paul Audi chose to let us listen to the title The Pretender (1976) by Jackson Browne. According to our guest, this song “symbolizes the end of American counterculture and utopias”.
Musical programming:
Léonie Pernet – Repair the world
Idles – Roy
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