Towards, the end of Memory, History, and Forgetting, indeed, Ricoeur evoked the famous angel of history from the painting by Paul Klee, described in Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History. This image also inspired my poems, blog, podcast, YouTube and now Sub-Stack newsletter. It marked a deep, unexpected bond between Ricoeur, Macron and I.
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Will Pensions and a Revolutionary Crowd Undo Macron?
On the podcast this week I examined the enormous protests in France caused by President Macron’s changes to the minimum qualifying age for retirement pensions.