Résumé
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Is history made my man? Can history be controlled? Who are the 'subjects' that supposedly constitute history? Great men, the avant-garde, the people, the masses? Just how aware are these historical figures? After a century marked by mass crimes on an unprecedented scale, isn't making history a dangerous project, indentured to totalitarianisms? Christophe Bouton revisits the origins of the historical 'feasibility' theory by examining the pros and cons it aroused. In the course of an analysis that convokes philosophers, historians and novelists, of a period which basically extends from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring, he emphasises the irreducible role of anonymous individuals in great collective events, thereby counterpointing an overly-elitist vision of history. By elaborating a theory of historical responsibility based on the process of the democratisation of history, which ramifies into an ethic of memory (striving so that mass crimes should not be forgotten) a democratic ethic (actively participating in the defence of this system) and a natural ethic (preserving the Earth as a basis of all future history), the author re-establishes man's role as a player in his own history.
L'auteur - Christophe Bouton
Autres livres de Christophe Bouton
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | NUMERIQUE | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf | |
Auteur(s) | Christophe Bouton | |
Collection | Passages | |
Parution | 05/09/2013 | 05/09/2013 |
Nb. de pages | 259 | - |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 | - |
Couverture | Broché | - |
Poids | 392g | - |
Contenu | - |
ePub |
EAN13 | 9782204100700 |
9782204116138 |
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