Edward w. said - l'humaniste radical
Fred Poché - Collection La nuit surveillée
Résumé
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Today, tensions about identity, and the national community's fear of losing its specific characteristics, engender feelings of insecurity that encourage the rejection of the other, of anyone different. In this context, the image of the Arab or the Muslim seems to be a new source of anxiety. It becomes necessary to take a critical distance in order to examine these representations, which Western literature and iconography had already contributed to diffusing. That is why it is important that the French reader should discover Edward W. Said (1935-2003), an intellectual who, in spite of his fame in the USA and in English and German-speaking countries, as well as in the Nordic lands, is too little known in France. This American writer of Palestinian origin, a man of mixed race and exile, describes how Western scholars and writers constructed the image of a mythical and obscure Orient, or, to put it more precisely, an antithesis of knowledge and Enlightenment, and a justification for colonisation. The author of the renowned Orientalism (1978) stresses the ideological dimension of this vision and reveals the source of the Western world's anti-Arab prejudices. This is the first book in the French language about the founder of post-colonial thought. It helps us understand where the fears that traverse Western societies come from, and gives new meaning to a radical humanism whose ambition is to train critical and responsible citizens.
L'auteur - Fred Poché
Fred Poché est diplômé de la Sorbonne et Docteur en philosophie (Paris X). Maître de conférences à l'Université catholique de l'ouest, il est notamment l'auteur de Penser avecArendt et Lévinas(Chronique Sociale), L'échec traversé (avec V. Margron, DDE) et Une politique de la fragilité(Cerf).
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Fred Poché |
Collection | La nuit surveillée |
Parution | 29/08/2013 |
Nb. de pages | 190 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 246g |
EAN13 | 9782204099066 |
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