IGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - As Russia invades Ukraine, the researcher thinks that Vladimir Putin is less afraid of Westerners than of a possible revolt by his own people, tempted by democratic ideals from the West.
Wiktor Stoczkowski is Director of Studies in the Social Anthropology Laboratory at EHESS. Latest work published: Social Science as a vision of the world. Émile Durkheim and the mirage of salvation, ( Paris, Gallimard, 2019).
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army has aroused a feeling of amazement among Westerners. It seems that no one expected it. How to understand this surprise? The experts who express themselves in the media explain it to us: once reasonable, Vladimir Putin would have gone mad, therefore unpredictable. We speak of his "paranoid determination" , his "obsessions" , his "delusional remarks" , his "unreason" , his "loss of sense of reality" , his "warrior madness" .
This hasty explanation comes to the minds of commentators with the force of evidence, as if the desire to establish a psychiatric diagnosis guaranteed its adequacy and at the same time compensated for medical incompetence. Recently, the same process was used to elucidate...
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