Édition Printemps – Été 2020

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Édition Printemps – Été 2020

Nous vous avions quittés, chers lecteurs, en vous souhaitant une bonne année 2020. Force est de constater que nos vœux n’ont pas encore atteint l’objectif désiré. Par bien des aspects, ce premier semestre est l’un des plus sombres que notre histoire ait connus depuis longtemps. De la gestion calamiteuse d’une certaine épidémie aux dernières manifestations racistes ou exaltées, notre monde vit des soubresauts qu’on n’attendrait pas, aujourd’hui, d’un siècle éclairé. Faut-il pour autant s’avouer vaincu, baisser les bras ? Certes non ! Vous trouverez justement dans ce nouvel Opus de notre revue, des pistes de réflexion originales et pertinentes pour penser la situation récente, actuelle et surtout, future. Des réflexions qui devraient également guider vos actions, car l’Intellectuel du XXIème siècle ne doit-il pas mettre sa connaissance de l’histoire et – peut-être surtout – son esprit critique, au service des évolutions de son temps, comme bien de nos anciens maîtres nous l’ont enseigné ? Bonne lecture à toutes et à tous.

Articles

  • Nommer le monde : pour une suite guenonienne
    David Cumin

    Abstract
    Any division and any denominaton of the world is based on a “world vision” or a “geo-vision”. This is obvious for East and West, since there is no East or West Pole, but also for North and South, even if there is a North Pole and a South Pole. Instead of cardinal points, do the elements provide objective criteria?…

  • Estragos supremacistas de la doxa victmista
    Teresita Dussart

    Abstract
    An outbreak of racialism like never before threatens peaceful coexistence in several democratic countries in the northern hemisphere. The rise of the antifa discourse of hyperbolization of racial identity, or rather, of skin color as a totalizing reference of the human person, erases decades, if not centuries of post-ethnic national integraton. Faced with the manifestations of anti-black and anti-white racism, the destruction of statues that are part of the intimate memory of each nation, the obligaton of “whites” to kneel in the name of a supposed congenital guilt, the demand imposed on African Americans or Europeans to endorse chaos, so as not to be denigrated as “Uncle Sam” or another humiliating nickname, the air is becoming rarer. Outside the doxa of victimization, all that remains is the leap to censorship.

  • Orient trif Okzident. Sephardische Autoren begegnen aschkenasischen Juden
    Elvira Grözinger

    Abstract
    In this paper, I am going to present three contemporary Sephardi authors and their encounter with the Ashkenazi Jews: Marcel Bénabou (born in 1939 in Meknès, Morocco, living and writing in France), Andre Aciman (born 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt, living and writing in the USA), and Mario Levi (born 1957 in Istanbul, Turkey, still living there). The three have writen memoirs of their childhood, youth, and about the lives of their Jewish ancestors (…). The wanderings of Ashkenazi Jews from one country to another in order to escape the historical upheavals, have made them immigrate into France, the USA, and also into the Orient where they met their Sephardi coreligionists, so far total strangers for them. The Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, mostly speaking Yiddish, had thus experienced a similar destiny to the one of their Sephardi brothers and sisters, with their Spanish-Jewish culture. When many of them found shelter in the Jewish quarters in the oriental countries so far populated mainly by Sephardi Jews, the descendants of the Jews once expelled from the Iiberian Peninsula, they discovered a new world. These two hitherto considered as di?erent and strange societies, languages and values of the Jews from Orient and Occident, thus came closer to one another within the families and made them into companions in fate.

  • Practical philosophy in the study of Jean Baudrillard’s legacy
    Maltsev Oleg

    Abstract
    In the following article, we will present the results of practical and applied re-search related to the philosophical understanding of the concepts of memory for-mation by the example of studying the memory of a famous personality – an out-standing French thinker of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the “father of postmodernism”, the author of more than 30 books, on the one hand, which caused several discussions and disputes, on the other hand, awarded Jean Baudrillard the second name of “the last prophet of Europe”.

 

  • Géosymbolisme contemporain
    Lucien Oulahbib

    Abstract
    Today, in spite of the screen stll displayed, but which is cracking more and more, that of a “World Community” supposed to be united by the same “universal”, this one appears rather like another representaton, so much it has lost the aura and its halos of what characterized it at the end of the Second World War: to make the World an increasingly “free” space in the sense that it is not “businesslike” or merely “emancipator” but capable both of preserving cultural singularites and of refining their common destiny in an increasingly diverse, interacting and interdependent world, such was the projected political pulse dissolving what is no longer appropriate… What happened?… And where are we?… Who’s “we”?

    Résumé
    Aujourd’hui, malgré le paravent toujours affiché, mais qui se fissure de plus en plus, celui d’une « Communauté mondiale » censée être unie par un même « universel » celui-ci apparaît bien plutôt comme une représentation de plus, tant il a perdu l’aura et ses halos de ce qui le caractérisait à la sortie de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale : faire du Monde un espace de plus en plus « libre » au sens non pas « affairiste » ni seulement « émancipateur » mais capable à la fois de conserver les singularités culturelles et d’affiner leur communauté de destin dans un monde de plus en plus diversifié, en interaction et en interdépendance, telle était la pulsation politique projetée dissolvant par ailleurs ce qui ne sied plus… Que s’est-il passé ?…Et où en sommes-nous ?… Qui « nous » ?…

  • covid-19 ou pollution : la peur, une culture française
    Isabelle Saillot

    Résumé
    Depuis les combats joyeux et humanistes du XVIIIème siècle, depuis l’avènement d’un ‘état-providence’ ayant validé l’essentiel des revendications de la Révolution, la méthode pour mobiliser l’opinion publique s’est métamorphosée. Il semble que depuis longtemps, en France, on ne peut plus motiver les populations qu’en leur faisant peur, voire en les terrorisant. Pour ce faire l’outil principal est devenu le mensonge. Traditionnellement agité par des activistes prêts à tout pour gagner des votes, des sympathisants ou des clients, les canulars macabres, ou rumeurs-panique, sont désormais les nouveaux procédés de l’état lui-même, comme l’illustre la propagande sur la covid-19 ou sur la pollution de l’air, les deux étant plus analogues qu’on pourrait le croire.

  • I Lived in A Society That Had No Police
    Philip Carl Salzman

    Abstract
    Where there is no police, every man is a warrior, and every group is a regiment. Carrying out ethnographic feld research as a cultural anthropologist, I lived for two years in Baluchistan, a cultural region in south eastern Iran, western Pakistan, and southern Afghanistan. During this time, I lived among the Baluch, talked with them every day about what they were doing and thinking, and observed their actons and behavior.

  • Systemic Racism: The Case of Afrmatve Action
    Philip Carl Salzman

    Présentation
    Some Americans are discriminated against because of their race, but it is not who you think. The clearest defnition of “racism” is treating people di?erently according to their race. Systemic or institutional racism is racism “expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.” (…)

  • PANDEMIE 2020 : chroniques d’une catastrophe sanitaire
    Jean-Jacques Wunenburger

    Présentation
    The corona-virus epidemic that crossed the planet in 2020, from China to Brazil, has caused profound upheavals in social and economic life in every country (almost general confinement of populatons), against a backdrop of medical impotence, more or less culpable and variable depending on the country. Some moments in the French history of the epidemic, from mid-March to mid-May, as observed and commented on, can be accompanied by a dominant ethical concern.

Comptes-rendus