Universitaire souvent drôle, toujours sérieux, précis, fidèle et consciencieux, Alain Finkielkraut, dans La Seule Exactitude, cite profusément et clairement ses sources et dans cet ouvrage, la palme revient à Levinas, Peguy et Heidegger. Avant de vous agiter pour cette dernière référence, lisez toutes les citations qui sont évidemment le fruit de ma lecture subjective. Je regrette toujours qu’Alain Finkielkraut persiste à lire le monde à travers son prisme un peu trop issu de Samuel Huntington alors que la lecture bien plus intelligente de Benjamin Barber lui serait infiniment profitable.
Chiang Mai Conference on Language Rights, Inclusion and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflicts (13-17 Dec. 2012)
My very personal summary of quite a special meeting in Chiang Mai. People, topics, sights, music, dialogues, it was human and beautiful from the first to the very last minute!
Marseille (about to be) revisited
After a rather cocooning break, I'm ready to hit the road again from Switzerland to the South of France, towards cosmopolitan Marseille and its Côte Bleue, half a century after my parents and grand-parents landed there from across the Mediterranean...is it a coincidence?
The week after…à la recherche du Temps Retrouvé!
There's the time of the meeting and the time we remember the meeting, capture what fascinated us and what might be seeds for future conversations. Please share your notes, correct mine and add your thoughts to this thought provoking conversation. Merci, thank you, gracias, diolch, toda, gracie, danke!
Vincent Peillon et autres bonnes feuilles
Je salue à ma manière la nomination de Vincent Peillon en m'empressant d'ajouter...Pourvu que ça dure!!!!
Cosmopolitan perspective on English
I know what I owe to my knowledge of English and despise Hagège for biting the hand that fed him, so while I'm packing away to an International Seminar where my knowledge of English is of essence, let me speak out my mind to a former mentor who's become a tormentor!
+972 and other area codes
I stumbled on a blog, this is the result of what it prompted me!
Bye Bye MMXI, hello MMXII
Bye bye MMXI, it was quite an incredible year and MMXII is the Year of the Dragon. Cosmo people, stay tuned, there's a lot of projects ahead!
Kaddish pour Henry
A mon très cher et très regretté Henry Bulawko, né en Lituanie, déporté à Auschwitz et mort à Paris le 28 novembre 2011 au terme d'une vie riche et bien remplie dont la Shoah fut un passage marquant, certes, mais qui ne saurait le résumer malgré sa fidélité et son dévouement inlassables à faire connaître la Honte du XXe siècle.
Tribute to Will Kymlicka’s Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter
I discovered Will Kymlicka in 1997 thanks to a very insightful presentation of my dear friend Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff. It totally changed my thesis and I owe him more than words could say! I could say the absolute same of the mine of information of his incredibly rich Newsletter. I always share it with my groups … Continue reading Tribute to Will Kymlicka’s Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter
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