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Démocratie, idéologie, socialité: Autour de l'oeuvre de Roberto Miguelez
Author: Marie-Blanche Tahon
Democratie, ideologie, socialite reunit des textes des philosophes, politicologues et sociologues Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, Viviana Fridman, Koula Mellos, Douglas Moggach, Marie-Blanche Tahon, Joseph Yvon Theriault, Andre Vachet, et Paule-Monique Vernes, rediges pour saluer, dans l'amitie intellectuelle, l'emeritat de Roberto Miguelez, professeur pendant trente ans a l'Universite d'Ottawa. Ils ont ete ecrits moins sur son uvre qu'a partir de l'eclairage qu'elle apporte a leurs travaux. Lui-meme dialogue avec chacun d'eux dans le dernier chapitre. Les articulations entre democratie, ideologie et socialite constituent les piliers sur lesquels s'est construit le travail de Roberto Miguelez. C'est de democratie dont il est le plus souvent question dans ce livre. Comment la concevoir aujourd'hui en philosophie sociologique? Le questionnement traverse l'ensemble des textes. Non sans laisser une place a ce qui releve de la sensibilite pour inviter de nouveaux lecteurs a decouvrir l'uvre de ce personnage.
Democratie, ideologie, socialite reunit des textes des philosophes, politicologues et sociologues Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, Viviana Fridman, Koula Mellos, Douglas Moggach, Marie-Blanche Tahon, Joseph Yvon Theriault, Andre Vachet, et Paule-Monique Vernes, rediges pour saluer, dans l'amitie intellectuelle, l'emeritat de Roberto Miguelez, professeur pendant trente ans a l'Universite d'Ottawa. Ils ont ete ecrits moins sur son uvre qu'a partir de l'eclairage qu'elle apporte a leurs travaux. Lui-meme dialogue avec chacun d'eux dans le dernier chapitre. Les articulations entre democratie, ideologie et socialite constituent les piliers sur lesquels s'est construit le travail de Roberto Miguelez. C'est de democratie dont il est le plus souvent question dans ce livre. Comment la concevoir aujourd'hui en philosophie sociologique? Le questionnement traverse l'ensemble des textes. Non sans laisser une place a ce qui releve de la sensibilite pour inviter de nouveaux lecteurs a decouvrir l'uvre de ce personnage.
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