Melancolía

In stagnant times, without a future, a reactionary appropriation of nostalgia arises. It is no secret: it is what we have experienced in recent years with the rise of the extreme right. Faced with this situation, the left finds itself at a crossroads, caught between the instinct to deny nostalgia and the need to support itself in historical values. He wants to look ahead while facing a present marked by the ecological crisis and the unsatisfied desires of liberalism. Motivated by the desire to understand, but also to act, the philosopher and political analyst Elizabeth Duval investigates the reasons for this phenomenon and proposes ways to unblock it. Faced with a politics that has become aseptic and a melancholic pessimism, she Duval claims a happy position, focused on affections, which allows us to reinterpret notions such as homeland or family, combat the isolation of individuals and strengthen the ties that unite us. A generational benchmark. An essay on how to regain hope in a shared future.