{"id":453,"date":"2011-02-13T19:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locus-solus-fr.net\/?p=453"},"modified":"2011-02-13T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:23:59","slug":"le-peche-danachronisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Le p\u00e9ch\u00e9 d&rsquo;anachronisme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Un sentiment fr\u00e9quemment ressenti \u00e0 la lecture de biographies, ou face \u00e0 des pol\u00e9miques d\u2019historiens.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Bruxelles, 3 f\u00e9vrier [2010]<\/em><br \/>\nJan Baetens me transmet un article d\u2019Edward Baring qui vient de para\u00eetre dans <em>Critical Inquiry<\/em> : \u00ab Liberalism and the Algerian War : the Case of Jacques Derrida \u00bb. Enfin, un texte r\u00e9ellement inform\u00e9. Baring s\u2019appuie principalement sur la longue lettre envoy\u00e9e par Derrida \u00e0 Pierre Nora en 1961, peu apr\u00e8s la parution du livre <em>les Fran\u00e7ais d\u2019Alg\u00e9rie<\/em>, un document passionnant auquel j\u2019accorde moi aussi une large place. Mais il en fait le point de d\u00e9part d\u2019une fine analyse politique.<br \/>\nJe n\u2019ai qu\u2019une seule critique, mais elle n\u2019est pas mince : le jugement r\u00e9trospectif, ou si l\u2019on pr\u00e9f\u00e8re le p\u00e9ch\u00e9 d\u2019anachronisme. Reprocher \u00e0 Derrida, f\u00fbt-ce implicitement, de n\u2019avoir pas sign\u00e9 le Manifeste des 121 en 1960, c\u2019est commettre une double erreur : oublier qu\u2019il n\u2019\u00e9tait alors qu\u2019un jeune agr\u00e9g\u00e9 inconnu (et de surcro\u00eet d\u00e9pressif) \u00e0 qui nul n\u2019aurait song\u00e9 \u00e0 demander sa signature ; ignorer que, tant que les siens vivaient en Alg\u00e9rie, il aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 irresponsable de les mettre \u00e0 ce point en danger.<br \/>\nCes jugements s\u00e9v\u00e8res, dans l\u2019apr\u00e8s-coup, sont l\u2019un des sympt\u00f4mes les plus aga\u00e7ants du <em>politically correct<\/em>. Mais ils constituent aussi un des travers r\u00e9guliers des biographes : il est si facile, quand l\u2019Histoire a rendu son verdict, de savoir ce qu\u2019il aurait fallu faire ; il est si confortable d\u2019avoir raison, au conditionnel pass\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Beno\u00eet Peeters, <em>Trois Ans avec Derrida<\/em>, Flammarion, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un sentiment fr\u00e9quemment ressenti \u00e0 la lecture de biographies, ou face \u00e0 des pol\u00e9miques d\u2019historiens. Bruxelles, 3 f\u00e9vrier [2010] Jan Baetens me transmet un article d\u2019Edward Baring qui vient de para\u00eetre dans Critical Inquiry : \u00ab Liberalism and the Algerian War : the Case of Jacques Derrida \u00bb. Enfin, un texte r\u00e9ellement inform\u00e9. Baring s\u2019appuie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[367,368],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grappilles","tag-benoit-peeters","tag-jacques-derrida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}