La parole du silence
Michel Maffesoli will present his latest book La parole du silence, published by Cerf.
Is it our duty to give word to everything, refusing to place limits on speech even to the point of blasphemy, at the risk of destroying the very underpinnings of our society and its tacit consensus on those values we hold most dear? One year on from the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Michel Maffesoli dares raise this thorny question, bringing to it his customary erudition. He sets out to understand the return of sacrality, the collective social need for emotional communion, connection, dissolving individuality in the Other of the wider community, the cosmos, of deity.