When Rome invented populism.
Deer| N° d'inventaire | 22226 |
| Format | 13.5 x 21 |
| Détails | 173 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782204133036 |
There's something of Cicero in Emmanuel Macron, and something of Clodius in Donald Trump. It is as a historian of Antiquity that Raphaël Doan demonstrates that we did not invent populism. The Romans, at the end of the Republic, experienced a life-and-death struggle between what they called the populares and the optimates. Appeal to the people, a taste for radical solutions, recourse to the figure of the strong man: these tribunes in togas and sandals resemble those of the 21st century in every way. In this era, with its senate and plebs, its speeches and riots, its wars and violence, everything is topical. Including the essential question: is populism the shield of the humble against an elite deaf to its demands, or the future sword of tyrants against freedom? A breathtaking first essay, written with an exemplary pen.
There's something of Cicero in Emmanuel Macron, and something of Clodius in Donald Trump. It is as a historian of Antiquity that Raphaël Doan demonstrates that we did not invent populism. The Romans, at the end of the Republic, experienced a life-and-death struggle between what they called the populares and the optimates. Appeal to the people, a taste for radical solutions, recourse to the figure of the strong man: these tribunes in togas and sandals resemble those of the 21st century in every way. In this era, with its senate and plebs, its speeches and riots, its wars and violence, everything is topical. Including the essential question: is populism the shield of the humble against an elite deaf to its demands, or the future sword of tyrants against freedom? A breathtaking first essay, written with an exemplary pen.