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English summary: It is not true, even in times of crisis, that only that only sources of profit are useful. Nuccio Ordine draws on great philosophers and writers, from Plato to Tocqueville, Ovid to Calvino, to argue for the utility of uselessness and the uselessness of the useful. The obsession with possession, and the cult of utility desiccate the soul, and endanger schools, art, and creativity, as well as fundamental values such as the dignity of Man, love, and truth. French description: Presentation de l'editeur: Il n'est pas vrai - pas meme en temps de crise - que seul ce qui est source de profit soit utile. Il existe dans les democraties marchandes des savoirs reputes inutiles qui se revelent en realite d'une extraordinaire utilite. Dans cet ardent pamphlet, Nuccio Ordine attire notre attention sur l'utilite de l'inutile et sur l'inutilite de l'utile. A travers les reflexions de grands philosophes (Platon, Aristote, Tchouang-tseu, Pic de la Mirandole, Montaigne, Bruno, Kant, Tocqueville, Newman, Heidegger) et de grands ecrivains (Ovide, Dante, Petrarque, Boccace, L'Arioste, Cervantes, Lessing, Dickens, Okatura Kakuzo, Garcia Marquez, Ionesco, Calvino), Nuccio Ordine montre comment l'obsession de posseder et le culte de l'utilite finissent par dessecher l'esprit, en mettant en peril les ecoles et les universites, l'art et la creativite, ainsi que certaines valeurs fondamentales telles que la dignitas hominis, l'amour et la verite. Dans son remarquable essai traduit pour la premiere fois en francais, Abraham Flexner souligne que les sciences, elles aussi, nous enseignent l'utilite de l'inutile. Ainsi, s'il elimine la gratuite et l'inutile, s'il supprime les luxes juges superflus, l'homo sapiens aura bien du mal a rendre l'humanite plus humaine.Un succes editorial en Italie et en Espagne Nuccio Ordine propose la un texte ideal pour bien commencer l'annee. Jean Birnbaum, directeur du Monde des Livres, 4 janvier 2013 Nous sommes reconnaissants a Nuccio Ordine - excellent editeur, entre autres travaux dignes de louanges, des oeuvres de Giordano Bruno - pour son manifeste L'Utilite de l'inutile. Fernando Savater, El Pais


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782251444888
  • Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Belles Lettres
  • Edition: 2
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 199 gr
  • ISBN-10: 2251444882
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 165 mm
  • No of Pages: 236
  • Series Title: Romans, Essais, Poesie, Documents
  • Sub Title: Manifeste
  • Width: 99 mm


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