Date
04 November 2025
Category
Conference/Round table
Do democracies die only when they are toppled by hostile armed forces? History abounds with coups and putsches of every kind, some more successful than others. Yet these events should not blind us to another reality: democracies also collapse when the passion for freedom wanes, and when, perhaps against our own will, we come to desire servitude.
Schedule
6pm
Place
Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
Information
in French without interpretation
free admission, no reservation required
Florent Guénard is a professor of political philosophy at the University Paris Est Créteil and editor-in-chief of La Vie des Idées. He is the author of La Démocratie universelle. Philosophie d’un modèle politique (Seuil, 2016) and La Passion de l’égalité (Seuil, 2022).
Photo © Hélène Robert
