Political correctness en version originale et en version française. Un malentendu révélateur

Political correctness in the original language and in French translation. A revealing misunderstanding, Eric Fassin. In this affair, considered on both sides of the Atlantic, the misunderstanding is full of meaning. The pretended "Frenchness" of political correctness says a great deal about the fascinations and the rejections of French intelligence in the United States. In France, the quasi-unanimous denunciation of the "new McCarthyism" says even more about the excessively culturalist vision in which we enclose America. In the heat of the controversy, we fînd a confrontation between two public statuses and two models of the intellectual.