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Can we consume carelessly in an unequal world with limited resources? Or should we, on the contrary, refuse the pleasures that the system offers us if we want to criticize this system? In this episode, Laura Raim questions the tension between our pleasures, whether erotic, food-related or festive, and contemporary political imperatives, in the company of Michaël Foessel, author of Quartier Rouge, Le plaisir et la gauche. In this essay, the philosopher criticizes part of the progressive camp, whether environmentalist, feminist or more broadly left-wing, for having abandoned the defense of pleasure to the right. Faced with the ecological crisis, rather than asking individuals to give up what they possess, Michaël Foessel invites us to defend an alternative conception of pleasure and to reconsider its emancipatory and subversive dimension. Also with Elsa Godart, philosopher and psychoanalyst. References cited in the episode (in order of citation): - Michaël Foessel, Quartier rouge, Le plaisir et la gauche, PUF, 2022 - Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Editions Bordas, 1669 - Voltaire, Le Mondain, 1736 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, 1750 - Elsa Godart, Putting an End to Social Culpabilization, Albin Michel, 2021 Available until 05/12/2027 Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social media! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr