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In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Adam Broomberg et Olivier Chanarin travaillent ensemble depuis une vingtaine d’années. Ils se sont rencontrés à Colors Magazine avant de s’envoler ensemble pour créer leurs propres images. Ils publient une bible illustrée d’images et notamment de catastrophes. S’inspirant de la Bible personnelle de Bertold Brecht, poète allemand, Olivier Chanarin et Adam Broomberg ont illustré ensemble une Bible avec des images évoquant la catastrophe. Au premier abord, cet ouvrage peut sembler un peu enfantin, facile ou irréfléchi. En réalité, il évoque une certaine histoire de la photographie et l’obsession de ce medium pour le conflit et les désastres. À travers des images violentes, les deux artistes tentent de montrer que les images de conflit ont encore moins de pouvoir aujourd’hui et qu’elles n’influent en rien la politique. Elles sont simplement un témoin obsessionnel de notre triste histoire. Le livre se termine par un essai d’Adi Ophir, intitulé Divine Violence. Il y constate que dans la Bible, Dieu s’exprime par la catastrophe et qu’un parallèle intéressant peut être fait avec nos sociétés actuelles : « Les États tentent d’imiter Dieu en récoltant les bénéfices de désastres, même quand ils disent ne pas en être la cause, parce qu’un désastre permet de déclarer un état d’urgence et donc de justifier l’autorité totale de l’État. »

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Eden --- Popular culture --- Sex role --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Biblical teaching --- Adam --- Eve

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Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship.Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon.As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions

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