return home

"When we came to this world, was our fate already pronounced?"

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Famous contemporary thinker, author of "The Biography of Michel Foucault"

Works by Didier Eripont

Immediately after publication, it sparked heated discussions in well-known newspapers such as Le Monde and Free Press

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A highly resonant self-analysis

A work of social criticism that explores the growth plight of the people at the bottom

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How did famous intellectuals reconcile with the native class?

Stop Blaming Problems on Family and Trauma

And reflect on the shaping of people by society in the education system and class differences

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This is "a labor to change oneself"

But looking for the possibility of resistance for more poor people

🐜 Editor's Choice

◎A well-known contemporary thinker with international reputation, reflecting on his own background and growth trajectory

The author is Didier Herypont, a famous contemporary French philosopher, thinker, and sociologist. He has published more than a dozen works, and many works have been recognized as classics, including this book. This book is between confession and reflection. It is not only a personalized academic work, but also a story told by the author based on his own background and growth experience. In the eyes of researchers, it is an academic discussion. A resonant memoir. At present, the book has been adapted into a play of the same name by the famous German director Thomas Ostermeier.

◎Pay attention to the problem of class solidification and marginalized groups, and use actual cases as the basis to speak out for those who struggle to live hard

After the death of his father, the author returned to his hometown of Reims (Reims), where he had been away for thirty years, and re-reflected on his own past experience, the situation in his hometown and its surrounding areas. From the life of family members and working-class people in their hometown, the deprivation of rights of female elders, to the marginalization of Reims, the "subculture" that exists relative to the mainstream culture... Didier Eribon focuses on The lives of the lower and lower civilian classes in the class barrier are "the insulted and damaged people" and it is possible for them to obtain "enlightenment".

◎Reflect on the role of school education in the shaping of people by society, and devote ourselves to examining the social instructions imposed by the education system

From the educational experience of his parents to his own, Eripong is committed to calmly reviewing the "collusion" between school education and social order. From the mass drop-out of children, to the rebellion and "subculture" of children who could not fit into the school culture, Eripon said: "The teachers have done everything they can! . . . There is so little they can change." Schools It is one of the battlefields of society, and class barriers also exist in campus culture. Eripong is committed to breaking barriers and exploring new possibilities.

◎From "small family" to "big world", analyzes the various forms of power and resistance

From the mother who was angry all her life because she couldn't finish school, the father who was violent and always yelling, to the grandmother who threw the children to the orphanage, the author re-understands the situation of the family and the lack of parents in family education s reason. From this, he also saw teenagers in his hometown who went astray in crime, and workers who gave up their studies in the midst of class solidification... How does society shape the people at the bottom, and how do the people at the bottom submit? The author tries to dissect the mechanism of shaping and submission, and re-understand the people he once hated and fled from.

◎Combined with reality, digest the theories and thoughts of famous philosophers and sociologists in a simple way

Readers who love Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault will appreciate it, as the author tells with passion how he was inspired by them and their theories will be It is integrated with the social reality experienced by the author to generate a new germinal point.

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🐜 Introduction

"Return to Homeland" is a reflective sociological work written by French philosopher and sociologist Didier Heribon based on his own experience. After the death of his father, the author Didier Eripont decided to return to Reims, his birthplace, to re-understand the social class he was originally born in and the group of people he had bid farewell to for thirty years. He went back to the past, recalled the history of his family, recalled the working class in his childhood, and traced back how he grew from a poor child in a working family to a famous intellectual in France...

In this extremely inner and subversive spiritual journey, the author thinks about a series of themes such as social class, school education, identity establishment, etc., and analyzes the fate of different individuals in different social environments by sorting out the fate of different individuals How "personal choice" is influenced and determined.

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🐜 Celebrity and Media Testimonials

Homecoming is a riveting and courageous account of how a leading French author brings together complex and often conflicting social and spiritual identities.

— Leo Bersani

This is a gripping book about repression, about letting go of one's origins, and about regaining balance.

——"American Art"

Eripon always returns to what he calls the "miracle" of discovering the life of the mind. "After all," he points out, "one should learn, that reading is enjoyable, that books are something you can love—and these attitudes are not universal, and in fact have a lot to do with social conditions and your background." Those of us enough Fortunately, those who have been able to have these since childhood can only pay tribute to him.

--"Guardian"

“I used to think,” said Didier Eripon, “that people could live alone away from their families, that they could forget their personal histories and those who gave birth to them, and reinvent themselves”—reviewing that lost history, and After awe-inspiring tribute to those he's turned his back on, the author uses this beautifully written statement to state the fact that turning away from family and the past can never be fully achieved. Maybe there is no real "return to hometown", but at least let us try to "reconcile with ourselves and the world we left behind".

——"Le Monde"