The contemporary world: between neoliberalism and conservative revolution

In collaboration with Al-Fikr

This meeting explores the notion of conservative revolution and its resonances in contemporary political dynamics. It revisits the genesis of liberalism, its evolutions towards neoliberalism, and the tensions it maintains with libertarian currents.

The analysis highlights the growing questioning of the role of the state and the reconfiguration of ideas in the political and economic fields. The rehabilitation of the state's social role is presented as a counter-model to neoliberalism, a system where the human is the purpose and measure of everything.

Finally, Mohamed Chérif Ferjani deciphers current forms of neoliberal globalization and its mutations.

Mohamed-Chérif Ferjani is an honorary professor at the Université Lyon 2, Chairman of the High Council of Timbuktu Institute-African Center for Peace Studies, associate researcher at several laboratories and research centers including, ISERL in Lyon and IRMC in Tunis and associate teacher-researcher at the Université Senghor de la Francophonie in Alexandria and the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Author of works concerning the comparative study of religions and political systems, the management of cultural and religious diversity, secularization and secularity, human rights, the history of political and religious ideas, including: Al-siyâssî wa'l-dînî fî'l-majâl al-islâmî, Éditions Nirvana, Tunis, 2023 (updated reprint of the Arabic translation of Le politique et le religieux dans le champ islamique, Fayard, Paris 2005), Néolibéralisme et révolution conservatrice, Éditions Nirvana, Tunis, 2022.

This conversation is moderated by Hatem Bourial, journalist, critic and cultural mediator and presented by Amira Zili.