Le meilleur of the moon
Le Meilleur des mondes ("The best of all worlds") is a French political magazine founded in 2006 and published quarterly in Paris. It emerged from the Cercle de l'Oratoire , a transatlantic group of French intellectuals that supported the US government's reactions to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . The magazine is published in the Éditions Denoël by the journalist Michel Taubmann , head of the Arte -Info editorial team . The media philosopher André Glucksmann is one of the best-known co-editors in Germany .
Title and origins of the journal
On their website, the editors underline that the title is to be understood as a polemic against utopias and religious do-gooders and as an appeal for an urgently needed new reflection on Western achievements such as freedom of expression and liberalism. The title of the magazine updates a debate in the European Enlightenment: The formula used in France appears in the title of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 's work “The Best of All Possible Worlds” and in Voltaire's polemics against this utopian-metaphysical approach in his novel “Candide or optimism ”. The founding members of the magazine come mainly from the Cercle de l'Oratoire , a group of intellectuals around Michel Taubmann and his wife Florence Taubmann, pastor of the Reformed Church Temple protestant de l'Oratoire du Louvre . Le Meilleur des mondes started in 2006 with the aim of gathering pro-American voices after the 9/11 attacks. In terms of external presentation, the group around the media and campaign professional Taubmann knows how to spread petitions with a clear message at the right time. Before the start, the editors started a petition in Le Monde entitled: “Cette guerre est la nôtre” (“This war is our war”) for UN intervention in Afghanistan ( Le Monde of November 8, 2001). Another important petition followed on March 4, 2003 in Le Figaro: "Avec Washington et Londres, pour le soutien du peuple Iraqien" ("With Washington and London in support of the Iraqi people").
Position and criticism
The editors and contributors of Le Meilleur des mondes refer to Hannah Arendt's follow-up criticism of totalitarianism in France in the 1970s, which was directed by parts of the left against the Soviet Union and self-glorification of the left. Today, from this point of view, Islam-fascism, with its terrorist actions and its anti-Semitic and anti-Western attitude, appears as a threat to the free world. Corresponding positions are represented in Germany by journalists such as Josef Joffe , Richard Herzinger and Henryk M. Broder . From the point of view of their opponents, the magazine is regarded as the “voice of America” (such as that of the Marianne newspaper , which is looking for a French third way between socialism and globalization) or the “voice of the neoconservatives in France” ( Le Monde ). The independent French Internet newspaper Mediapart, on the other hand, certified Le Meilleur des mondes on May 7th, 2008 as a “barometer of public opinion in France”, a magazine which, as in the case of the Iraq war, openly admits and analyzes its own misjudgments .
A practical test: the Robert Redeker case
Le Meilleur des Mondes has started the first petition in support of the French philosophy professor Robert Redeker , who had received death threats over an anti-Islamist editorial in Figaro on September 19, 2006. Redeker asked the question: “Face aux intimidations islamistes, que doit faire le monde libre? »(“ What must the free world do in the face of Islamist intimidation? ”). After death threats against Redeker, which confirmed the content of his article, a media scandal broke out: The Figaro editorial team and his employees apologized to the Arab channel Al Jazeera . The editors of Le Meilleur des Mondes then organized a media-effective protest event on November 15, 2006 at Redeker's university town of Toulouse with the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF) and SOS Racisme , at which Bernard-Henri Lévy , Pascal Bruckner and Alain, among others , took part Finkielkraut and Claude Lanzmann took part.
Individual evidence
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- ^ Soutien de Bush et de la guerre en Iraq, la revue "Le Meilleur des mondes" esquisse une autocritique
