PUF's anti-woke book: barely published, already out of date
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The headquarters of the Presses universitaires de France in Paris, in March 2025. RICCARDO MILANI / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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Review: The prestigious Presses Universitaires de France has, despite criticism, maintained the publication of this collective work, which is very hostile to "wokeism." It's a shame that, since Trump's election, this fight has changed direction.
In the culture war—as in any conflict—the effectiveness of an offensive is a matter of timing. This is one of the problems posed by the book just published by Presses universitaires de France , "Facing Woke Obscurantism," which seeks to settle the issue of "deconstruction" and everything that the university has to offer in terms of gender studies, race, intersectionality, etc.
Bringing together arguments that were presented at a conference held at the Sorbonne in January 2022 , the work is divided into three parts – “subversion of institutions”, “sciences without conscience”, “identity fractures” – the statements of which are enough to understand that the authors will not retain anything good in very varied schools of thought (feminism, anti-racism, decolonialism) which have in common the questioning of the fabrication of…
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