Return to hometown

"When we come into this world, is our fate already determined?"
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Didier Eripon, a famous contemporary thinker and author of "Michel Foucault", sparked heated discussions in well-known newspapers such as Le Monde and La Liberté after its publication.
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A self-analysis that resonates deeply with readers. A social critique that explores the plight of the lower classes.
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How do famous intellectuals reconcile with the native class?
Stop blaming family and psychological trauma and reflect on how society shapes people through the education system and class differences.
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This is "a work of changing oneself"
Yet, they are seeking opportunities for resistance for even more people living in poverty. Editor's Recommendation: A renowned international thinker reflects on his origins and upbringing. Didier Héripon, a renowned French philosopher, thinker, and sociologist, has published over a dozen books, many of which have been recognized as classics, including this one. This book, which straddles the line between candor and reflection, is both a personal scholarly work and a story told through the author's own personal background and upbringing. While for researchers it serves as an academic discussion, for the general reader it serves as a profound and resonant memoir. The book has been adapted into a play of the same name by renowned German director Thomas Ostermeier.
Focusing on issues of class stratification and marginalized groups, Didier Eribon uses real-life examples to give voice to those struggling to make ends meet. After his father's death, the author returned to his hometown of Reims after a thirty-year absence and reconsidered his own experiences, as well as the conditions of his hometown and the surrounding area. From the lives of his family and the working-class people of his hometown, to the deprivation of rights faced by female elders, to the marginalization of Reims itself and the existence of "subcultures" vis-à-vis mainstream culture... Didier Eribon focuses on the lives of those trapped within the class divide, the "insulted and damaged," and the potential for their "enlightenment."
Reflecting on the role of schooling in society's shaping of individuals, he is dedicated to examining the social directives imposed by the education system. From his parents' educational experiences to his own, Eripon is committed to soberly examining the collusion between schooling and social order. From the large number of children dropping out of school to those who rebel and join subcultures because they can't fit in, Eripon says, "Teachers have done the best they can!... There's so little they can change." Schools are a social battlefield, and class barriers exist within campus culture. Eripon is committed to breaking down barriers and exploring new possibilities.
From the "small family" to the "big world," the book analyzes the various forms of power and resistance. From a mother consumed by lifelong frustration over her inability to complete her education, to a violent, yelling father, to a grandmother who abandoned her children to an orphanage, the author reconceptualizes the plight of her family and the failures of parental education. Through this, he also witnesses the youth in his hometown who stray into crime, the workers who abandon their studies amidst stratified class structures... How does society shape the lower classes, and how do they submit? The author attempts to unravel the mechanisms of shaping and submitting, reconnecting with the very people he once loathed and fled.
◎ Combining reality and digesting the theories and ideas of famous philosophers and sociologists in an easy-to-understand way. Readers who like Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault will feel very familiar, because the author will passionately describe how he was inspired by them, and their theories will also be integrated with the social reality experienced by the author to generate new starting points.
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"Return to My Homeland" is a reflective sociological work by French philosopher and sociologist Didier Éripon, drawing on his own personal experiences. Following his father's death, Didier Éripon decided to return to his birthplace, Reims, to rediscover the social class into which he was born and the people he had lost contact with for thirty years. He revisits his family's history, recalling his working-class childhood, and retracing his journey from a poor working-class child to a renowned French intellectual...
In this extremely internal and subversive spiritual journey, the author reflects on a series of topics such as social class, school education, and identity establishment. By sorting out the fate trajectories of different individuals in collective determinism, he analyzes how people's "personal choices" are influenced and determined in different social environments.
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🐜 Recommended by celebrities and media A Return is a captivating and courageous work about how a renowned French writer grapples with the complex and often conflicting intersections of her social and spiritual identities.
—Leo Bersani
This is a gripping book about repression, about leaving your origins behind, and about regaining your balance.
——American Art
Eripon always returns to what he calls the “miracle” of discovering the life of the mind. “After all,” he notes, “the attitude that people should learn, that reading is pleasurable, that books are something you can love—these attitudes are not universal and are in fact closely related to social conditioning and the background from which you come.” Those of us lucky enough to have had these experiences from an early age can only salute him.
—The Guardian
"I used to believe," Didier Héripon writes, "that one could live alone, away from family, forget one's history and the people who gave birth to one, and reinvent oneself." After reflecting on that lost history and paying awe-inspiring tribute to those he had once turned his back on, the author beautifully articulates the fact that severing one's family and past is never truly possible. Perhaps a true "return home" doesn't exist, but let us at least strive to "reconcile ourselves with ourselves and the world we have left behind."
——Le Monde

2020-07-01

上海文化出版社

the new wave

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9787553518510