Pour l'hebdomadaire britannique The Economist, les responsables du pessimisme et de l'amertume ambiante en France sont à chercher du côté de ses grands écrivains. Les Anglais appellent cela le «mal culturel».
Extrait: Yet miserabilism seems to have a greater hold on the French mind today. I doubt, therefore I am One reason could be the French appetite for brutal self-criticism. From Descartes onwards, doubt is the first philosophical reflex. “The rationalist tradition makes us sceptical; we exist through criticism,” argues Monique Canto-Sperber, a philosopher and director…