Security, a dogma that prevents change?

Abstract

When the success of the term "security" • and its negative counterpart, "insecurity" are no longer the order of the day to be demonstrated in media and political speeches, the philosopher Frédéric Gros proposes to take a distance to question the foundations and the meanings of said concept. Taking a distance from the work that takes place in denouncing the advent of the police state promoted in this way by the undemanding media, Gros tries to understand this term through the socio-historical process in which its meaning has evolved in the course weather. In États de violence. Essai sur la fin de la guerre published in 2006, Gros warned that the structural antagonism between war and peace was not as clear as now, mainly in the fact of the euphemisms used by the discourse that preferred the use of terms such as “intervention "Or" security ". In this marvelous work, Le Principe Sécurité, Frédéric Gros - who is also a specialist for Michel Foucault - does not limit himself to introducing or commenting on the theses of the French thinker.