Fréderic Gros - Desobedecer

"Disobedience, in the face of the absurdity and irrationality of the world as it is, is self-evident. Why disobey? Just open your eyes."

 Starting from this premise, Frédéric Gros seeks in these pages to answer another question: if it is “so easy to agree on the hopelessness of the current world order,” why is it “so difficult to disobey it”? In a meticulous philosophical reflection that ranges from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience to La Boétie’s Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, passing through Eichmann’s trial as interpreted by Arendt, or Jesus Christ in Dostoevsky, Disobey(2017) unearths the roots of political obedience and respect for authority, challenging received certainties, moral convictions, and social conventions—and leads us to revalue political responsibility.

When democratic consent becomes indistinguishable from submission to injustice, Disobey becomes a call to ethical resistance, to the collective strength that arises, above all, from the conscience of each of us.