| Titre | Le passé d'une désillusion : les luddites et la critique de la machine | |
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| Auteur | Vincent Bourdeau, François Jarrige, Julien Vincent | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 39, mai 2006 Nouvelles aliénations | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Interventions |
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| Page | 145-165 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Luddism constituted a phase in English social history between 1811 and 1817, a phase marked by a
remarkably widespread phenomenon of machine-breaking. Ignored for generations, and subsequently the
object of denigration, Luddism came in for a reevaluation in E. P. Thomson's book The Making of the
English Working Class (1963), which fused a “Marxist” political perspective and the acutest requirements
of historical scholarship. In subsequent research, these two perspectives have drifted apart. On the one
hand, Thomson's historiographical heirs no longer subscribe to their predecessor's militant stance. On the
other, those researchers whose active commitment to the cause of political ecology since the 1990s had led
them to inject urgency into the historiographical debate, have proved less convincing in terms of their
contribution to historical scholarship. Luddism remains nevertheless a contemporary issue, both in
historiography and in political philosophy. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AMX_039_0145 |
