Alain Supiot Livres

In 1944, the International Labour Organization laid out its “Declaration of Philadelphia,” a full-fledged social bill of rights in the same spirit as FDR’s State of the Union address of the same year. The welfarist spirit was then at its apex—but Supiot argues that with neoliberalism still rampant, even following the economic crash, the Declaration remains an important baseline. Then as now, social ties had been compromised in favor of market values; now, as then, the law must be reorganized to uphold social values and the spirit of solidarity. Short, punchy and often rousing, The Spirit of Philadelphia describes the worldwide triumph of neoliberalism as once-communist elites turn towards market dogma and the privatization of welfare states. Arguing against the return to social Darwinism, and the bureaucratic embrace of numbers and statistics as ends, Supiot champions the social democratic spirit, hoping for its revival in the wake of the recent crash.

France's most incisive jurist, Alain Supiot ... has renewed the idea that all significant belief-systems require a dogmatic foundation by focusing its beam sharply, to the discomfort of their devotees, on the two most cherished creeds of our time: the cults of the free markets and of human rights. -Perry Anderson, London Review of Books The book addresses some contemporary issues with great erudition, and, as such, can profitably be read by anyone interested in the legal direction of advanced capitalism. -Robert Knox, Historical Materialism If Supiot's corrective is a shade utopian, his diagnosis that something is amiss with contemporary trends in law and jurisprudence is an apposite and welcome contribution to a dissenting tradition. -Tor Krever, New Left Review Alain Supiot develops an original and ambitious approach of the place and role of the law for man with the curiosity and audacity of an anthropologist, but all the while avoiding the trap of universalism ... The use of an anthropological wide-focus lens furnishes him with a wealth of observations which ground a high-calibre reflection, rigorously documented with examples drawn from the legal domain. -Études After centuries of triumphalism on behalf of homo economicus, one had given up hope of hearing one day about homo juridicus. We can only congratulate Alain Supiot for this work which defends the anthropological function of the law, reminding us that the human being is a metaphysical animal which exists not only in thew universe of things (the economic) but also in a universe of signs. -Revue trimestrielle de droit civil

La primera Declaración Internacional de Derechos, proclamada en Filadelfia el 10 de mayo de 1944, buscaba establecer un nuevo orden internacional basado en el Derecho y la justicia, en contraste con el ultraliberalismo actual. Alain Supiot destaca la necesidad de rescatar esta visión ante el fracaso del sistema económico actual.

Allgemeiner und dauerhafter Frieden kann nur auf sozialer Gerechtigkeit und der Sicherung menschenwürdiger Arbeitsbedingungen aufgebaut werden. So wurde es in der Erklärung von Philadelphia vom 10. Mai 1944 formuliert, die bis heute als Gründungsdokument moderner Sozialstaatlichkeit gilt. Der blinde Glaube an die Unfehlbarkeit der Finanzmärkte hat das Streben nach sozialem Ausgleich und gerechter Verteilung vollkommen verdrängt. Alain Supiot plädiert für eine Rückbesinnung auf die Werte der Erklärung von Philadelphia und fordert ein politisches und ökonomisches Umdenken, das menschenwürdige Arbeit zur Bekämpfung der Armut und die soziale Gestaltung der Globalisierung in den Mittelpunkt rückt.