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The Plural Logics of Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Jacques Berque
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Unlike him who said: “Man is something that must be gone beyond,” I shall have the temerity to say: “Man is something that must be opened out.” But this opening out presupposes a statutory plurality of the person, society and the world. It is because it ignored this plurality and broke away from it that the industrial era is experiencing what have been called contradictions.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 20 , Issue 79 , September 1972, pp. 1 - 25
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Copyright © 1972 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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1 The name given at the beginning of the conquest of Algeria, but then spread throughout Northwest Africa, to the organs of colonial administration placed over the tribes.

2 Literally "Guineans," guilds in Northwest Africa of itinerant dancers in a more or less burlesque African style.

3 Percussion musical instrument consisting of a skin stretched across an earthenware pot.

4 The journal of Rachîd Rid'a, called Manâr, held an important intellectual position in the Egypt of the interwar years.