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"Conférences données à l'université de Columbia qui réhabilitent l'humanisme comme école de pensée et comme aspiration à valoriser l'humain. Dans ce testament intellectuel, l'auteur explique pourquoi il voudrait que l'humanisme est un rôle central dans le fonctionnement de la société actuelle et en quoi la pratique de l'autocritique permettrait une meilleure compréhension du monde."
"Ce livre est une réhabilitation parfaitement réussie de l'humanisme. Le terme est à prendre dans son acception complète, à la fois comme aspiration à valoriser l'humain et comme école de pensée, autrement dit connaissance des lettres ou " humanités ". La synthèse théorique et pragmatique qu'en opère Said le fait apparaître comme un support incontestable de la culture occidentale, depuis Giambattista Vico jusqu'à Erich Auerbach et au-delà, jusqu'aux penseurs américains et européens de l'après-11 septembre. La force du point de vue adopté par l'auteur vient de ce qu'il est solidement ancré dans le présent, qu'il se déploie exclusivement à partir de faits historiques et d'événements marquant notre monde d'aujourd'hui : fin de la guerre froide, montée des nationalismes, résistance palestinienne, guerre en Irak, écologie, mondialisation... Edward Said veut conférer à l'ancienne doctrine de l'humanisme un rôle central dans le fonctionnement de notre société, en tant que vision critique du monde et de nous-mêmes. Car c'est en étudiant les traditions et les concepts d'autres cultures que l'on s'ouvre à soi."
"Traditional humanistic education has been under assault for many years. In this, his final book, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism - one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten - is still possible. Proposing an enhanced dialogue between cultural traditions as a strategy for revitalizing the humanities, Said contends that words are vital agents of historical and political change and that reading teaches people to continually question, upset, and reform. By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interconnected world and pointing out that the canonized thinkers of today were yesterday's revolutionaries, Said makes a persuasive case for humanistic education and a more democratic form of criticism. -- Back cover."@en
"In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United States -- and to varying degrees the rest of the world -- since September 11, 2001, the notion that cultures can harmoniously and productively coexist has come to seem like little more than a quaint fiction. In this time of heightened animosity and aggression, have humanistic values and democratic principles become irrelevant? Are they merely utopian fantasies? Or are they now more urgent and necessary than ever before?Ever since the ascendancy of critical theory and multicultural studies in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional humanistic education has been under assault. Often condemned as the intolerant voice of the masculine establishment and regularly associated with Eurocentrism and even imperialism, the once-sacred literary canon is now more likely to be ridiculed than revered. While this seismic shift -- brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten -- is still possible. A lifelong humanist, Said believed that self-knowledge is the highest form of human achievement and the true goal of humanistic education. But he also believed that self-knowledge is unattainable without an equal degree of self-criticism, or the awareness that comes from studying and experiencing other peoples, traditions, and ideas. Proposing a return to philology and a more expansive literary canon as strategies for revitalizing the humanities, Said contends that words are not merely passive figures but vital agents in historical and political change. Intellectuals must reclaim an active role in public life, but at the same time, insularity and parochialism, as well as the academic trend toward needless jargon and obscurantism, must be combated. The "humanities crisis," according to Said, is based on the misperception that there is an inexorable conflict between established traditions and our increasingly complex and diversified world. Yet this position fails to recognize that the canonized thinkers of today were the revolutionaries of yesterday and that the nature of human progress is to question, upset, and reform. By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interdependent world and exploring the enduring influence of Eric Auerbach's critical masterpiece, Mimesis, Said not only makes a persuasive case for humanistic education but provides his own captivating and deeply personal perspective on our shared intellectual heritage -- Product Description."

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"Hümanizm ve demokratik eleştiri"@tr
"Hümanizm ve demokratik eleştiri"
"Umanesimo e critica democratica : [cinque lezioni]"
"al-ansaniyah wa al-naqid al-dīmūqrāṭī"
"الانسانية و النقد الديموقراطي"
"الإنسانية والنقد الديموقراطي"
"Al-insāniyyaẗ wa al-naqd al-dīmūqrāṭī"
"Humanisme et démocratie"
"الأنسنية والنقد الديموقراطي"
"Humanismo Y Critica Democratica"
"Ūmānı̄sm va naqd-i dimukrātı̄k"
"الانسنية والنقد الديموقراطي"
"Umanesimo e critica democratica : cinque lezioni"@it
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"al-Ansanı̄yah wa-al-naqd al-dı̄mūqrāṭı̄"
"‏الأنسنية والنقد الديمقراطي /‏"
"Humanismo y crítica democrática : la responsabilidad pública de escritores e intelectuales"
"Umanesimo e critica democratica"@it
"Humanismo y crítica democrática : la responsabilidad pública de escritores e intelectuales"@es
"Umanesimo e critica democratica"
"al-Ansanīyah wa-al-naqd al-dīmuqrāṭī"
"Humanism and democratic criticism"@en
"al-Insāniyah wa-al-naqd al-dīmūqrāṭī"
"Al-insanīyah wa-al-naqd al-dīmūqrāṭī"
"Humanism and democratic criticism"

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