“Jean-Luc Mélenchon has given up defending secularism” | EUROtoday

Dn the explosive conflict of the modern left, it’s a precept which is the topic of incessant battles: 120 years after the separation of Churches and State, secularism is topic to fairly often antagonistic interpretations throughout the progressive camp. With roughly unhealthy religion (no pun meant) on each side…

On the event of the anniversary of this founding legislation, tutorial Stéphanie Roza, analysis fellow on the CNRS, specialist within the concepts of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, deciphers this dispute. In 2020, in The left in opposition to the Enlightenment?she analyzed the “growing hostility” of a part of this political aspect in the direction of “universalism”, “rationalism” or “Enlightenment progressivism”*.

The Point: Secularism tr…