Back Cover 93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".
Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?
Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...
Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.
And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.
ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.
The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.
Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...
Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant.
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