| Titre | Civilisation contre barbarie ? Archéologie critique de quelques corruptions idéologiques contemporaines (nationalisme, humanitarisme, impérialisme) | |
|---|---|---|
| Auteur | Pierre-André Taguieff | |
 |
Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 87, 1er trimestre 1988 La démocratie en défaut | |
| Page | 30-52 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Pierre- André Taguieff, Civilisation versus barbary ? A critical archeology of a few contemporary ideological corruptions (nationalism, humanitarianism, imperialism)
Nationalism is studied on the basis of the oppositions : national/foreign, universal/particular, friend/enemy, superior/ inferior, in turn in : the "committed philosophers » of French anti-German propaganda under the 3rd Republic (nationalism implying xenophobia and universalism, the core of French ideological particularism, being a universalist patriotism) ; the Enlightenment's doctrine of compassion (neo-religious character of humanitarianism which, in romanticism, assumes a missionary role and fuses with patriotic exaltation) ; the personalized and "rationalist" humanism of Julien Benda (or anti- fanatical fanaticism) ; the illusions of integral political individualism ; the most recent misadventures of abstract universalism : contemporary anti-racist ideology, a hegemonic variant (the ultimate lack of differentiation of mankind by the universal abolition of frontiers and the fraternity of communities), in which the anti-nationalism implied in the progressivism which aims at the ethno-cultural uniformisation of the world by means of the assimilation of all with all, is also contained in the nationalist framework of the community of equal brothers raised to the sum of the nations in their entirety. The maximal ideological corruption of the demand of universality appears, historically, to be represented by modern imperialism of which the driving force remains a nationalist myth of some sort. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
|
| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1988_num_87_1_3206 |
