Left-Leaning Opportunists (bilingual/bilingue)

This book would never have been possible without the encouraging support of two academic organizations: the International Society of Applied Psycho-Linguistics (ISAPL, Brazil) and the Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association (IFIASA, Romania). Let them be thanked here.

Because of the Populist politicians, philosophers and other demagogues, we are today engulfed in a tremendous maelstrom of dangerous individualism and selfishness, even the brand-new species of collective selfishness in the form of any group — national, racial, ethnic, sexual, religious — entirely locked up on themselves and only considering their narrow-minded and mostly blind interest. In this book I try to follow the thought of some of these ideologues who pretend to be philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, or even scientists in physics or chemistry, at times medicine. I also open and close the book with two recent articles of mine that try to go beyond this state of affairs and open up some trails or paths to some reasonable and collective future with and within all our differences.

Ce livre n’aurait jamais été possible sans le soutien et les encouragements de deux…