The success of the Far Right is not due to the victory of its ideas or its supposed cultural hegemony, but exactly the opposite: avoiding the formulation of a strong political theory and using a vague and simplified discourse that appeals, in a pretentious way, to "common sense" and "national values," thus managing, by exploiting the spirit of rejection and anti-establishment sentiment that prevails, to attract a segment of the population in search of simple answers, quick solutions, and disappointed by the successive defeats or resignations of the Left.

The Far Right is facilitated in its strategy as the distinction between Right and Left diminishes, shared memories of Resistance and democratic and social struggles fade, while more and more, the terms of public debate are cheapened. The widespread confusion, boundary-crossing, and overlaps in slogans (Center and Right adopt xenophobia, while the Far Right supports the institutional recognition of abortions), lead to the demonization and normalization of the Far Right. If there is no Right and Left, then there is no Far Right either.

Against the moral identity of the Far Right, which includes a range of attitudes from national pride to humiliation, passing through desires for revenge against progressivism in all its forms, the authors suggest turning to the ethics of democratic politics and defending the principle of equality that underpins it.

In identity-based nationalism, "we are at home, we do not want to be uprooted from our land," in this "home" that excludes all otherness, we must propose a "we" that is not simply a generalization of "I," a political "we" oriented towards equality and not identity.

The book has been awarded the Prix étudiant du Livre Politique - LCP AN. An invigorating and essential book to escape clichés. We do not fight against the far right with slogans like "no pasarán" nor by accepting their normalization, hoping to weaken their arguments through discussion in the public sphere.

As the Far Right's recipes contaminate the public space, Foessel and Ollion weave the praise of a politics beyond ideological confusion. Against a nationalist and identity-based "we," they propose a political "we" rooted in the spirit of equality.

The book is persuasive and reads effortlessly. It draws on the intersecting expertise of its authors – one philosopher, the other sociologist. An original, innovative, and timely book.