Word: glucksmann
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None of these approaches are very precise, but they have one thing in common: a retreat from ideology. The main lesson of the French elections, says philosopher Andre Glucksmann, is "the end of the religious, theological, ideological style of politics" that the Socialists represented. "Voters no longer believe in definitive, global solutions. They want politics to address real problems." He sees French politics evolving into an American-style two- party system, in which a liberal and a conservative camp would address issues free from the "dogmatic Utopianism" that once clouded their debates. At a time when many Europeans...