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Michaud, Yves
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The centre votes at stake in the second round of the French presidential elections
The French philosopher Yves Michaud considers that the centrist voters whose candidate, François Bayrou, came third in the first round of the presidential elections, will arbitrate the duel of the second round between the right-ring candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist Ségolène Royal. "Bayrou's 'neither-nor' centrist dynamic does exist, but was unable to break up the bipolar left-right match. Thus it will be Royal against Sarkozy, fair order against success through work, a France of solidarity against a France of competition, regions against the nation. But the bipolarisation we are returning to is not the same anymore. On both sides, on Royal's as much as on Sarkozy's, they are going to have to tap into the reserves and notably into the 'neither-nor' voters. ... This is made more complicated and more serious by the fact that the 'neither-nor' voters may make up a reduced camp, but are also somewhat educated and well-informed."
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Yves Michaud defends an 'agressive' contemporary art
The French philosopher Yves Michaud reacts to the legal action launched against Henri-Claude Cousseau, the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, for the public display of pedo-pornographic images. "Contemporary artists go on proclaiming themselves critical and avant-garde. They mean to denounce and shock by claiming their total freedom of expression. But still, it is rather strange that they should be shocked when what they intended to be shocking actually shocks. It is then that they lay claim to their sacred contemporary art, entitled to some sort of diplomatic immunity within artistic institutions. One feels like reminding them that they should defend themselves not by claiming this immunity and signing petitions, but with even more aggressiveness, quite simply demanding the right to free expression and opinion in our formerly democratic society which is unfortunately becoming a hypocritical clerical society."
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More from the press review on the subject » Exhibitions / Museums, » Fine Arts, » Photography, » France
For a balanced separation of powers
Philosopher Yves Micaud speaks out against "the defensive, pig-headed attitude" of the French judiciary, which has come in for serious criticism since the Outreau pedophile scandal. "So frequently does the judiciary now use the principle of the separation of powers to defend its right to disregard its social responsibility or its accountability to ordinary citizens that it is worth recalling some moral and legal points that the judiciary are apparently no longer taught. (...) If there is a concern that lies at the core of both Locke's and Montesquieu's doctrines of the separation of powers, then that concern is balance (...) If the separation of powers were invoked, it would be say that the deeply serious problem revealed by judicial excesses of the type seen in the Outreau affair is the absence of checks and curbs to limit the power of the judiciary.”
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