Sylvain Wagnon, Lecturer in Education at the Faculty of Education, Montpellier University
Can we better understand a life by exploring the conditions of its death? This book explores this question through the example of libertarian pedagogue and neo-Malthusian activist Paul Robin (1837-1912),
Based on the pedagogue's writings, notably Technique du suicide, this book offers an original reading of his commitment, placing the question of his death as the key to interpreting his intellectual and militant itinerary. If the integral education he defended aimed to liberate the individual from childhood onwards, wouldn't his ultimate gesture be the affirmation of one last fundamental right: that of choosing one's own end?
By examining the links between education, emancipation, freedom and the end of life, this book goes beyond the case of Paul Robin to engage in a debate that is still relevant today.