L’Utilite de l’inutile. Manifeste
by Abraham Flexner and Nuccio Ordine, translations by Luc Hersant and Patrick Hersant
Paperback (Published)
(January 2013)
ISBN: 9782251444581
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Nuccio Ordine and Abraham Flexner argue for the usefulness of the useless. Through the reflections of great philosophers, writers, and science, both authors show how the obsession with usefulness and utility desiccates the soul, creativity, and society, how the suppression of the superfluous deprives humans of their humanity. French text.
English summary: Nuccio Ordine and Abraham Flexner argue for the usefulness of the useless. Through the reflections of great philosophers, writers, and science, both authors show how the obsession with usefulness and utility desiccates the soul, creativity, and society, how the suppression of the superfluous deprives humans of their humanity. French description: Il n’est pas vrai pas meme en temps de crise que seul ce qui est source de profit soit utile. Il existe dans les democraties marchandes des savoirs reputes inutiles qui se revelent en realite dune extraordinaire utilite. Dans cet ardent pamphlet, Nuccio Ordine attire notre attention sur lutilite de linutile et sur linutilite de lutile. A travers les reflexions de grands philosophes (Platon, Aristote, Tchouang-tseu, Pic de la Mirandole, Montaigne, Bruno, Kant, Tocqueville, Newman, Heidegger) et de grands ecrivains (Ovide, Dante, Petrarque, Boccace, LArioste, Cervantes, Lessing, Dickens, Okatura Kakuzo, Garcia Marquez, Ionesco, Calvino), Nuccio Ordine montre comment lobsession de posseder et le culte de lutilite finissent par dessecher lesprit, en mettant en peril les ecoles et les universites, lart et la creativite, ainsi que certaines valeurs fondamentales telle que la dignitas hominis, lamour et la verite. Dans son remarquable essai traduit pour la premiere fois en francais, Abraham Flexner souligne que les sciences, elles aussi, nous enseignent lutilite de linutile. Ainsi, sil elimine la gratuite et linutile, sil supprime les luxes juges superflus, lhomo sapiens aura bien du mal a rendre l’humanite plus humaine.
- By (author) Abraham Flexner
- By (author) Nuccio Ordine
- Translated by Luc Hersant
- Translated by Patrick Hersant
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