Beyond the military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, the French anthropologist insists on the ideological and cultural dimension of this war. And on the opposition between the liberal West and the rest of the world, won over to a conservative and authoritarian vision. The most isolated are not, according to him, those we believe.
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By Alexandre Devecchio (Le Figaro)
Lhe Frenchman Emmanuel Todd is an anthropologist, historian, essayist, futurist, author of numerous books. Several of them, like The Final Fall, The Economic Illusion Where after the empirehave become classics of the social sciences.
Scandalous thinker for some, visionary intellectual for others, “rebel destroyer” in his own words, Emmanuel Todd does not leave anyone indifferent. The author of
The Final Fall
, who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, had remained discreet in France on the question of the war in Ukraine. The anthropologist has so far reserved most of his interventions on the subject for the Japanese public, even publishing in the archipelago, in 2022, an essay with a provocative title:
World War III has already begun
. The book has sold 100,000 copies to date.
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