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Jean-Pierre Dupuy: “This virus is clever, he understood that if he killed his host, he was committing suicide”

It is rarely heard in France, and yet Jean-Claude Dupuy is one of those facetious philosophers of science at work in abundance and protean. A cosmopolitan Polytechnician married to a Brazilian and professor of ethics at the American University of Stanford, he has published forty books on technique, economics, ecology, including For enlightened catastrophism. When the impossible is certain (Threshold). Since the early 2000s, he has been closely interested in the disasters befalling humanity. The health crisis and the comments it arouses among his colleagues in the world of ideas inspired him to write a biting essay: Disaster or life. Thoughts in times of pandemic (Threshold). Retail review.

L’Express: You feel very upset against the intellectuals “covidosceptics”, as you call them. What exactly do you blame them for?

Jean-Claude Dupuy: When you are an intellectual, you have to speak up after learning about the subject you are discussing. How can we argue, like André Comte-Sponville, whom I know and admire elsewhere, or the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, that this virus is really “not the end of the world” as we approach flu figures Spanish, constantly given in reference as one of the most killer pandemics in the history of mankind?

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