Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery and the Future of France (okładka  miękka, wyd. 04.2020)

A passionate account of how the gulf between France`s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an 'American society'-one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy`s winners and losers in today`s France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on 'the periphery.' As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country`s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy`s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an 'open society' in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.