“Au niveau de l'ouvrier, les rapports établis entre les différents postes, les différentes fonctions, sont des rapports entre les choses et non entre les hommes. Les pièces circulent avec leurs fiches, l'indication du nom, de la forme, de la matière première; on pourrait presque croire que ce sont elles qui sont des personnes, et les ouvriers qui sont des pièces interchangeables. Elles ont un état civil; et quand il faut, comme c'est le cas dans quelques grandes usines, montrer en entrant une carte d'identité où l'on se trouve photographié avec un numéro sur la poitrine, comme un forçat, le contraste est un symbole poignant et qui fait mal.”
Conditions premières d'un travail non servile, 1942
Thèmes
rapports , faute , hommes , personnes , formation , chose , homme , état , cas , fait , personne , nom , rapport , niveau , pièce , matière , carte , forme , usine , poitrine , grand , indication , identité , montre , poste , indice , symbole , plate-forme , fonction , entrée , contraste , fonctionnement , formateur , photographie , civil , fiche , numéro , établissement , non , ouvrier , différent , première , mal
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His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain glory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes. In the time of his greatest power he maintained the same simplicity of manners and appearance as in the days of his adversity. So far from affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual testimonials of respect were shown to him. If he aimed at a universal dominion, it was the dominion of faith; as to the temporal rule which grew up in his hands, as he used it without ostentation, so he took no step to perpetuate it in his family.
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Mahomet and his successors, 1849
Le Choc des civilisations ('), 1996
La Société du spectacle, 1967
Entretiens avec Didier Eribon
par exemple, linguistiques
(en) Our ignorance of brain function is currently so very nearly total that we could not even begin to frame appropriate research strategies. We would stand before the open brain, fancy instruments in hand, roughly as an unschooled labourer might stand before the exposed wiring of a computer: awed perhaps, but surely helpless. A microanalysis of brain functions is, moreover, no more useful for understanding anything about thinking than a corresponding analysis of the pulses flowing through a computer would be for understanding what program the computer is running. Such analyses would simply be at the wrong conceptual level. They might help to decide crucial experiments, but only after such experiments had been designed on the basis of much higher-level (for example, linguistic) theories.
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation (1976)
“La vérité est une ambiance : on ouvre un livre, on entre dans une pièce et on sait.”
Les ruines du ciel, 1995
I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it.
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