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Shades of Indignation - Political Scandals in France, Past and Present (Hardcover)
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Shades of Indignation - Political Scandals in France, Past and Present (Hardcover)
Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
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At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the
midst of another scandalous fin de siecle, awash with rumors and
revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium
expired, the Republic's servants, some sitting, others retired,
received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When
taken together, surely les affaires now approximate in political
significance (if not in noise or invective) those of the Dreyfus or
Panama scandals a century ago? Yet the author argues this is not
so. Today, treason has vanished and is slowly giving way to a
transgression different in kind, but equivalent in gravamen: the
crime against humanity. Corruption is far from disappearing, yet
now it inspires resignation rather than indignation - and as such,
it has lost its power to scandalize. Jankowski claims that such
transformations tell a tale. The state that once aspired to
pre-eminence as the sole magnet of loyalty, touchstone of probity,
and guarantor of right, has yielded significant ground to the
individual who is now more likely to elevate his own dignity and
cry scandal on his own behalf. [In these times,] Individualism is
de-politicizing the group and [ultimately] diluting the mystique of
France, the nation-state par excellence.
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