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Le XXe siècle a été dévasté par la démiurgie des totalitarismes qui, espérant transfigurer le monde, n'ont abouti qu'à le défigurer. Mais il serait faux de croire que ces illusions totalitaires nous ont quittés. Car nous avons rejeté avec force le totalitarisme comme terreur, mais tout en poursuivant les tentatives de transfiguration du monde.Au point de l'histoire où nous en sommes, le débat et le combat opposent ceux qui veulent encore remplacer ce monde, et ceux qui veulent le défendre et le protéger. La conviction de Chantal Delsol est qu'une partie de l'Occident postmoderne, sous le signe d'un certain esprit révolutionnaire, au sens de radicale utopie, mène une croisade contre la réalité du monde au nom de l'émancipation totale. La philosophe définira ainsi le projet de la modernité tardive : une démiurgie émancipatrice dans le sillon des Lumières françaises de 1793 et du communisme, œuvrant sans la terreur et par la dérision, toujours barbare mais promue par le désir individuel et non plus par la volonté des instances publiques. Un essai cinglant et sans compromission par l'une des meilleures philosophes de notre époque.

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Postmodernism. --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism

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"This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled 'The journey of reason in African philosophy', and part two is titled 'African philosophy and postmodern thinking'. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. The idea of the book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says 'philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another'. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches."--

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Postmodernism. --- Postmodernism --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism

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Ethics, Modern --- Postmodernism --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism