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This book offers a few possible answers to the question in the title, What is Man? It is a crucial question today, because the unity of the human species has been and continues to be challenged by all kinds of racisms, and because cultural differences, often a source of conflict, oblige us to establish common values on which to build a shared existence in the age of globalization. Chantal Delsol establishes certain truths, invariable in time and space, demonstrating that when men forgets such fundamental values as mortality, transmission, the paradoxical relation between right and wrong... they create their own misfortunes and must relearn the importance of those values they have ignored. Chantal Delsol is a PhD, director of the collection La Table Ronde.