{"id":8720,"date":"2023-01-23T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:18:41","slug":"bernard-e-harcourt-naming-utopizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-naming-utopizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard E. Harcourt: &#8220;Naming, Utopizing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith the way people usually are,\u201d Nietzsche wrote in 1882, \u201cit takes a name to make something visible at all.\u201d What name could we give to our present to make it more visible? The Disneyland amusement park? The crystal palace? The expository society?\u00a0 Or the detention camp at Guant\u00e1namo Bay? And how do we \u201cname\u201d to produce a better future? In this lecture delivered at the Coll\u00e8ge international de philosophie in Paris, Bernard E. Harcourt questions the way we name the present, in order to illuminate the relationship between naming and \u201cutopizing\u201d our future. The lecture is in French.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originalit\u00e9. \u2014 Qu\u2019est-ce que c\u2019est que\u00a0l\u2019originalit\u00e9\u00a0?\u00a0<em>Voir<\/em>\u00a0quelque chose qui n\u2019a pas encore de nom, ne peut pas encore \u00eatre nomm\u00e9, quoique cela se trouve devant tous les yeux. Avec la fa\u00e7on dont sont faits les gens ce n\u2019est que le nom des choses qui les leur rende visibles. \u2014 Les hommes originaux ont g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 ceux qui donnaient les noms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2013 Nietzsche, <em>Le Gai Savoir <\/em>(1882)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dans des recherches ant\u00e9rieures, j&#8217;ai essay\u00e9 d\u2019utiliser le concept du parc \u00e0 th\u00e8me pour mieux comprendre, aussi bien le n\u00e9olib\u00e9ralisme contemporain dans un pays capitaliste avanc\u00e9 comme les \u00c9tats-Unis, que notre nouvelle soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019exposition \u00e9rig\u00e9e sur les fondements de ce n\u00e9olib\u00e9ralisme.\u00a0J\u2019avais pris le parc \u00e0 th\u00e8me\u00a0\u2013 ou, comme vous le dites, le \u00ab\u00a0parc humain\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 non pas comme objet d\u2019\u00e9tude en soi, comme vous le faites, mais comme sch\u00e9ma pour mieux comprendre mon objet d\u2019\u00e9tude, le n\u00e9olib\u00e9ralisme. J\u2019en suis donc venu au parc humain par d\u2019autres chemins. Et c\u2019est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment ces chemins, ces sentiers, ces pistes de recherche que j\u2019aimerais interroger aujourd\u2019hui avec vous.<\/p>\n<p>Pour lire la suite, <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4323925\">cliquez ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith the way people usually are,\u201d Nietzsche wrote in 1882, \u201cit takes a name to make something visible at all.\u201d What name could we give to our present to make it more visible? The Disneyland amusement park? 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