Quotes from Pierre Rosanvallon

Le journalisme doit remplir deux fonctions : organiser l'espace public mais aussi produire des révélations. Révéler d'abord au sens de tendre un miroir à la société, pour qu'elle prenne conscience de ce qu'elle est véritablement.

Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

Equality has become a sort of remote deity, which is routinely worshipped but has ceased to inspire any living faith.

in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of producing and living in common.

Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,