Twilight of the Elites Twilight of the Elites

Twilight of the Elites

Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

    • 11,99 €
    • 11,99 €

Publisher Description

A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on “the periphery.”

As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2019
8 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
184
Pages
PUBLISHER
Yale University Press
SIZE
2.9
MB

More Books by Christophe Guilluy

Les dépossédés Les dépossédés
2023
Le temps des gens ordinaires Le temps des gens ordinaires
2021
Le temps des gens ordinaires Le temps des gens ordinaires
2020
Sobre las ruinas de la clase media Sobre las ruinas de la clase media
2020
No society. La fin de la classe moyenne occidentale No society. La fin de la classe moyenne occidentale
2019
Fractures françaises Fractures françaises
2019