HAVING ABANDONED THE UNIVERSAL FOR THE PARTICULAR:

Pardon my French : With the elections in France just two weeks away, a quirk of the language seems to capture the front-runner's dilemma -- and the country's (Geoffrey Wheatcroft, April 8, 2007, Boston Globe)

These elections in France are turning, to a striking degree, around the question of identity, which has to do with ethnicity -- and that in turn has to do with class. One could almost say that Sarkozy wants France to decide with whom it should tutoyer, and with what meaning.

Why would it be striking for elections in France to turn on the issues surrounding the French model: the Racism/Nationalism that followed from Rationalism?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 7, 2007 11:53 PM