{"id":36181,"date":"2004-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/henri-mendras-sociologue-et-prospectiviste\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T00:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:14:16","slug":"henri-mendras-sociologue-et-prospectiviste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/henri-mendras-sociologue-et-prospectiviste\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Mendras, sociologue et prospectiviste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>We were very sorry to learn of the death of Henri Mendras (1927-2003), who was an extremely acute observer of contemporary societies and, through his unfailingly forceful analyses, made a significant contribution to studies of the future of societies. He was a founder member of what was to become the &#8220;Futuribles group&#8221; and took part in our activities from the very beginning right up to his death, always observing the changes in Western society with a keen and penetrating gaze.<br \/> In his memory Bruno H&eacute;rault has compiled a text including substantial extracts from his works which were particularly significant markers in Henri Mendras&#8217; intellectual development.<br \/> First, La Fin des paysans (published in 1967 by Futuribles), a book in which Henri Mendras described with remarkable clairvoyance the profound changes occurring in agriculture and the life of the countryside, a &#8220;possible future&#8221; (futurible) that is still strikingly relevant. Then La Seconde R&eacute;volution fran&ccedil;aise (Paris: Gallimard, 1988) and, 14 years later, La France que je vois (Paris: Autrement, 2002); in these works Henri Mendras analysed the major changes taking place in French society (what he called &#8220;belated modernity&#8221;), while showing how things that other commentators criticized as shortcomings could be read more positively: for example, &#8220;individualism brings out its opposite, the strengthening of social relationships&#8221;; &#8220;if the two-tier society is frightening, this is because equality has made such great strides that any inequality has become intolerable&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were very sorry to learn of the death of Henri Mendras (1927-2003), who was an extremely acute observer of contemporary societies and, through his unfailingly forceful analyses, made a significant contribution to studies of the future of societies. 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