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Chantal Delsol (a.k.a.:Chantal Millon-Delsol), born 16 April 1947 in Paris, is a French philosopher, political historian and novelist. Founder of the Hannah Arendt research institute founded in 1993. She is openly catholic, and a disciple of Julien Freund and Pierre Boutang, describes herself as a "liberal-conservative".
Contents
- Les religions le religieux quel avenir chantal delsol
- Biography
- A eulogy of federalism and of Europe
- Principle of subsidiarity
- Populism
- References
Chantal Delsol main political ideas are liberalism, federalism, as well as the principle of subsidiarity based on the idea of singularity.
Les religions le religieux quel avenir chantal delsol
Biography
Chantal Delsol was born to a right wing catholic Parisian family she is the daughter of biologist Michel Delsol. Delsol studied under liberal-conservative Julien Freund, disciple of Max Weber, under whom she wrote her doctoral thesis in 1982.
Docteur ès lettres (i.e. doctor of literature), she is currently a professor at université de Marne-la-Vallée, where she directs the centre for European studies, known as the Hannah Arendt Institute, which she founded in 1993.
A eulogy of federalism and of Europe
Chantal Delsol is a fervent partisan of federalism, an ideal she has claimed draws its roots from Catholicism and from the baroque culture of Germanic countries. She believes it to be an innovative system, bearer of hope. Therefore, she is against the idea of the Nation-State of Bodin, which she believes stalls geopolitical actions. In contrast with a federation, which is an indeterminate contract, layered with a great degree of flexibility, which allows a more fluid and open State. Federations are based on the common goal of peace and prosperity.
She considers the current European Union to not be a true federation. Due to its lack of political unity in the EU, the only unity is an administrative unity, which Delsol has described as technocratic. For example, Europe lacks a common policy in terms of defence and foreign affairs.
Principle of subsidiarity
For Delsol, subsidiarity is a principle of organisation of society: allowing for the separation of powers to different authorities. An authority responsible for a group is required to guaranty the existence of the object of the group. The authority is only required to help the group overcome its weaknesses, no more no less.
Populism
In her book titled La nature du populisme ou les figures de l’idiot !, Chantal Delsol examines the stakes of contemporary populism, i.e.the current ressurgence of interest in the concept as well as the need to reevaluate our place in the contemporary world. To Delsol populism appear to be the greatest danger to democracy, on the other hand, it reveals the flaws of western democracies owing to their ideas of universalism.