- EAN13
- 9782722605015
- Éditeur
- Collège de France
- Date de publication
- 20/11/2018
- Collection
- Leçons inaugurales
- Langue
- anglais
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Of what is History capable?
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 17 December 2015
Patrick Boucheron
Collège de France
Leçons inaugurales
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We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so
that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of
thought, but of practical reason, affording full latitude for action. Saving
the past, saving time from the frenzy of the present: the poets devote
themselves to this with exactitude. For this purpose we must work to weaken
ourselves, to make ourselves idle, to make inoperative this endangering of
temporality that wrecks experience and despises childhood. “Surprise the
catastrophe”, said Victor Hugo. Or, as Walter Benjamin put it, throw oneself
against the slow oncoming disaster that is more a continuation than a sudden
rupture.
that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of
thought, but of practical reason, affording full latitude for action. Saving
the past, saving time from the frenzy of the present: the poets devote
themselves to this with exactitude. For this purpose we must work to weaken
ourselves, to make ourselves idle, to make inoperative this endangering of
temporality that wrecks experience and despises childhood. “Surprise the
catastrophe”, said Victor Hugo. Or, as Walter Benjamin put it, throw oneself
against the slow oncoming disaster that is more a continuation than a sudden
rupture.
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