THREE AUTHORS SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRISTOL DES LUMIÈRES PRIZE : DELIBERATION AND VOTING LIVE ON FRANCE CULTURE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015
Meeting for lunch on December 2, the jury for the Prix Bristol des Lumières, chaired by Jacques Attali and including Christophe Barbier, André Bercoff, Malek Chebel, François de Closets, Roger-Pol Droit, Luc Ferry, Caroline Fourest, Alexandre Lacroix, Aude Lancelin and Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, selected the following three essays:
Jules Ferry and the wild child, Mara GOYET, Flammarion
La France périphérique, Christophe GUILLUY, Flammarion
A question of size, Olivier REY, Stock
The winner will be announced live on France Culture on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, during a special edition of Du Grain à Moudre, on France Culture. The Prix Bristol des Lumières is the first of its kind to offer a unique experience: witnessing a literary jury’s discussion live.
THE THREE FINALISTS IN COMPETITION
Jules Ferry et l’enfant sauvage, Mara GOYET, FLAMMARION (August 27, 2014)
The collège unique is a symbol of hope, of an educational utopia, but also of disaster. It’s tempting to give it up. That would be unacceptable. It would mean abandoning a democratic promise: are we proposing to re-establish censal suffrage when we don’t like the results of elections? This book lays the groundwork for the necessary reconciliation of a demanding and elegant transmission of culture, with a concern for efficiency and attention to students as they are. Mara Goyet proposes a new age of teaching and paints a portrait of the teacher of tomorrow, halfway between Roland Barthes and Lara Croft.
Mara Goyet is a history and geography teacher in a Parisian secondary school. She has previously published with Flammarion, in the “Café Voltaire” collection, Tombeau pour le collège (2008) and Collège brutal (2012). His “alchimie du collège” blog on leMonde.fr is followed by 20,000 readers.
La France périphérique, Comment on a sacrifié les classes populaires, Christophe Guilluy FLAMMARION (September 17, 2014)
Today’s France lives with notions and dogmas from the past, which no longer correspond to any reality. The “middle classes”, inherited from the Trente glorieuses, have disappeared to make way for the new working classes, excluded from the benefits of globalization. The bipolarization of French political life is living its last moments: both left and right must urgently reprogram their software.
The longer the economic and social crisis lasts, the higher the profile of Christophe Guilluy is growing. Nicolas Sarkozy had made Fractures françaises (“Champs”, 2013) his bedside book during the 2012 presidential campaign. This geographer, who set out in search of a working-class France, now regularly visits Manuel Valls and François Hollande. He works as a consultant for social landlords, local authorities, consultancies and associations of local councillors.
Une question de taille, Olivier Rey, Stock, October 8, 2014
Today, we measure everything from stock market trading volumes to cholesterol levels, from the density of fine particles in the air to household morale. But the more our societies indulge in this frenzy of measurement, the less likely they are to respect measurement, in the sense of fair measurement. This book sets out to describe and understand the ways in which, over the last few centuries, we have lost the ability to measure. Whether it’s a question of our relationship with nature, politics or ethics, it’s imperative to take this into account if we want to lead a genuinely human life, and avoid everything being destroyed.
Olivier Rey is a CNRS researcher, mathematician and philosopher. He taught mathematics at the École Polytechnique, and now teaches philosophy at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of several essays: Itinéraire de l’égarement. The role of science in contemporary absurdity (Le Seuil, 2003), Une folle solitude. Le fantasme de l’homme auto-construit (Le Seuil, 2006) and Le Testament de Melville (Gallimard, 2011). He has also published two novels, Le bleu du sang (Flammarion, 1994) and Après la chute (PGDR, 2014).
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