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PENSAMIENTO Y POLITICA EN EL MUNDO ARABE
Cet ouvrage expose les multiples facettes de la pensée politique arabe depuis le XIX
e siècle, inscrite dans la richesse d'une culture trop méconnue. Avec ce vaste panorama, vivant et érudit, Georges Corm atteste la vitalité de cette pensée et des grandes controverses qui l'ont traversée. Il montre que ses acteurs, loin d'être figés dans le carcan théologicopolitique décrit par certains récits canoniques sur les Arabes et l'islam, ont souvent exprimé une pensée critique forte, sur les plans religieux et philosophique, anthropologique et politique.
Inscrivant l'œuvre de ces penseurs dans le maelström des bouleversements géopolitiques et socioéconomiques ayant marqué le monde arabe depuis deux siècles, il explique comment les puissantes hégémonies externes, militaires, académiques et médiatiques ont contribué à marginaliser la pensée critique arabe. Cela a facilité l'installation hégémonique de la pensée islamiste, instrumentalisée par certains régimes arabes comme par leurs protecteurs occidentaux. En retraçant finement les avatars successifs du nationalisme arabe moderniste, confronté à partir des années 1950 au double défi de la création de l'État d'Israël et de la manne pétrolière, Georges Corm donne les clés pour comprendre les révoltes libertaires arabes de 2011, ainsi que les contre-révolutions et interventions externes qui les ont suivies.
Un guide précieux pour se familiariser avec la complexité de la pensée arabe, exposée ici de façon claire et exhaustive. Un guide d'autant plus utile que le retour à la paix dans la région dépend largement de la reconnaissance de la puissante dynamique de cette pensée à la fois critique et profane, loin de l'image politico-religieuse sclérosée qui en est souvent donnée.
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408 pages, Paperback
First published April 16, 2015
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Georges Corm
49 books61 followers(Arabic: جورج قرم)
Higher Education
G. CORM is Lebanese, he was born in 1940. He studied in Paris and graduated in 1961 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Major in Economics and Public Finance) and from the Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Economiques where he successively obtained the Licence en Droit (1962), the Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (1966) and the Doctorat d’Etat (Ph.d.) in Constitutional Law with the highest honors (1969). His PhD thesis on religious pluralism through history and its influence on political systems was published in three languages (French, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian).
Professional Career
G. Corm began his career with the Lebanese Civil Service in 1963. He served first as Economist with the Ministry of Planning, then as Monetary and Financial Expert with the Ministry of Finance (Department of Central Bank Control and Coordination). In 1969, he continued his professional career in the banking sector in Lebanon, France and Algeria until 1985. From 1985 to 1998, G. Corm was based in Paris as an independent Economic and Financial Consultant for International institutions like the World Bank, ESCWA, UNDP, the European Commission and Arab and Lebanese institutions, as well as for private companies and banks. He has worked for these institutions in more than 15 countries.
From Décember 1998 to October 2000, G. Corm served as Minister of Finance of the Lebanese Republic. In this capacity, he prepared a Five Year Plan for fiscal reform, began introducing VAT and paid all accumulated arrears due by the State to the private sector. He is now back to consulting activities and teaching at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
Academic Record
Professor Lecturer between 1972 and 1985 at Saint Joseph University (Beirut), American University of Beirut, Lebanese University. Regular teaching courses on Arab Modern Political Thought, Nations and Nationalism, Development Economics, Economic history and International Financial markets; since 2001, he has been teaching International Economic Cooperation and Financial Management of the State at Saint Joseph University and Balamand University. Since 1985, he has been member of several Committees at different French Universities to examine Ph. d. thesis and has given from time to time Lectures or Seminars in Europe and the US on Middle-Eastern topics.
Membership in Professional Bodies
Member of the Executive Board and Secretary General of the Arab Organization to fight corruption (Beirut), Research Fellow and member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab World, Turkey and Iran (Cairo) – Member of Arab Economic Research Society (Cairo) – Member of Arab Tought Forum (Amman) – Société des amis du Monde Diplomatique (Paris) – Member of the Conseil Scientique du Centre de Recherches de l’Orient Contemporain IFAPO (Paris) – Member of the Advisory Board of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria – Member of the Adivsory Board of Casa Araba (Madrid) - Former Member of the Conseil Scientifique des Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée Orientale et le monde turco-iranien CEMOTI (Paris) – Former Member of the Consultative Committee of the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Développement (Geneva) – Founding Member of le Mouvement du Citoyen Libanais (Beirut-Paris).
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September 20, 2020
تتواصل رحلتي مع الفكر العربي والمفكرين العرب هذا العام.
كتاب موسوعي شامل عن حركة الفكر العربي وميزاته وإيجابياته وسلبياته منذ عصر النهضة العربية وصولا إلى ما دُعي بالربيع العربي.
رحلة غنية وهامة جدا قدمها لنا الدكتور جورج قرم ليبين مدى سعة وتنوع الفكر العربي الظاهر منه والمُغفل ذِكره إعلاميا عربيا كان أم من خلال وسائط الإعلام الغربية.
لقد أثرت التغيرات الجغراسية كثيرا في مسيرة هذا الفكر العربي الغني في القرن التاسع عشر والقرن العشرين ولولا بعض الانتكاسات السياسية التي حدثت لكان الوضع الجغراسي والفكري في رحلة أخرى.
ولكن برأيي الشخصي
ما يزال الفكر العربي الذي حدث بعد بداية القرن العشرين يمر بتخبطات كبرى، وسنظل نعيش هذه التخبطات إلى وقت تتحرر فيه الدول العربية من عدة مقيدات سياسية ودينية تعيشها حتى اليوم.
كتاب موسوعي شامل عن حركة الفكر العربي وميزاته وإيجابياته وسلبياته منذ عصر النهضة العربية وصولا إلى ما دُعي بالربيع العربي.
رحلة غنية وهامة جدا قدمها لنا الدكتور جورج قرم ليبين مدى سعة وتنوع الفكر العربي الظاهر منه والمُغفل ذِكره إعلاميا عربيا كان أم من خلال وسائط الإعلام الغربية.
لقد أثرت التغيرات الجغراسية كثيرا في مسيرة هذا الفكر العربي الغني في القرن التاسع عشر والقرن العشرين ولولا بعض الانتكاسات السياسية التي حدثت لكان الوضع الجغراسي والفكري في رحلة أخرى.
ولكن برأيي الشخصي
ما يزال الفكر العربي الذي حدث بعد بداية القرن العشرين يمر بتخبطات كبرى، وسنظل نعيش هذه التخبطات إلى وقت تتحرر فيه الدول العربية من عدة مقيدات سياسية ودينية تعيشها حتى اليوم.
April 19, 2019
كتابٌ عظيمٌ ذو طابع موسوعي، يستعرض الفكر العربي وأعمال أعلامه منذ القرن التاسع عشر، إلى القرن الواحد والعشرين، مع الأخذ بعين الاعتبار خصوصية السياقات الجغرافية والسياسية -الجغراسية على حد تعبيره- للعالم العربي.
غير أنني أستغرب غفلة الدكتور جورج قرم، رغم الطابع الموسوعي لكتابه هذا، عن ذكر شيء من فكر وأعمال محمد باقر الصدر، وهو الذي يُعد من أهم أعلام ومفكري العرب في القرن العشرين على صعيد الفلسفة والاقتصاد والمنطق!
غير أنني أستغرب غفلة الدكتور جورج قرم، رغم الطابع الموسوعي لكتابه هذا، عن ذكر شيء من فكر وأعمال محمد باقر الصدر، وهو الذي يُعد من أهم أعلام ومفكري العرب في القرن العشرين على صعيد الفلسفة والاقتصاد والمنطق!
July 17, 2021
هذا الكتاب الهام هو معجم للفكر العربي، أي أنه معجم مضاد لجوهرانية الثقافة العربية والتي لا تتوقف محاولات اختزالها في كونها ثقافة ذات بعد واحد وجوهري وأصيل، ولكنها ثقافة متنوعة ومتعددة تسير وفقاً لمسار الأحداث التاريخية والسياسية في منطقتها، وتخضع لتغيرات عديدة وفقاً لدورة التاريخ وأحداثه
أعتقد أن الكتاب قرائاته واجبة للقارئ العربي نظراً لأن مواضيعه الإشكالية وتناوله لأفكار المثقفين العرب هو تناول مبسط وغير نخبوي أكاديمي، وذلك أسلوب يحسب لمؤلفه البارع جورج قرم، أنه استطاع الإلمام دون إخلال بالموضوع او استعلاء أكاديمي
أعتقد أن الكتاب قرائاته واجبة للقارئ العربي نظراً لأن مواضيعه الإشكالية وتناوله لأفكار المثقفين العرب هو تناول مبسط وغير نخبوي أكاديمي، وذلك أسلوب يحسب لمؤلفه البارع جورج قرم، أنه استطاع الإلمام دون إخلال بالموضوع او استعلاء أكاديمي
September 12, 2024
Superbe expérience d'avoir lu cet ouvrage de référence de Georges Corm. Il est tristement d'actualité en raison du décès récent de son auteur.
C'est un parfait abécédaire de la pensée arabe et le livre adéquat si vous êtes novice sur le sujet. Le livre aborde l'histoire de la pensée arabe, son lien avec la pensée musulmane et dresse un panorama complet de toutes les pensées ayant influencé le monde arabe.
Toutefois, certains chapitres font un peu listing de différents penseurs et il faudrait lire tous les ouvrages référencés dans la bibliographie pour pleinement maîtriser le sujet. C'est un peu le principal écueil de ce livre, il traîne parfois en longueur en multipliant les références sans trop les approfondir.
Il conserve cependant une très bonne note, car mon expérience dans la Peninsule Arabique m'a permis d'expérimenter certains aspects de la pensée arabe décrite dans cet ouvrage.
C'est un parfait abécédaire de la pensée arabe et le livre adéquat si vous êtes novice sur le sujet. Le livre aborde l'histoire de la pensée arabe, son lien avec la pensée musulmane et dresse un panorama complet de toutes les pensées ayant influencé le monde arabe.
Toutefois, certains chapitres font un peu listing de différents penseurs et il faudrait lire tous les ouvrages référencés dans la bibliographie pour pleinement maîtriser le sujet. C'est un peu le principal écueil de ce livre, il traîne parfois en longueur en multipliant les références sans trop les approfondir.
Il conserve cependant une très bonne note, car mon expérience dans la Peninsule Arabique m'a permis d'expérimenter certains aspects de la pensée arabe décrite dans cet ouvrage.
August 9, 2022
A comprehensive review of Arab intellectual output from the era of the Nahda until the present times, complete with the numerous sociocultural contexts that had a role in shaping it.
The book starts off with describing the richness of Arab thought and the diverse modes of cultural expression throughout the centuries, in spite of current political attempts in religious garb aiming to obfuscate it. This links to the question of religious vs national identity and how it lays at the heart of many attempts by Arab thinkers to come up with a solution for the current woes that affect the Middle East. Following that is the problem of enacting a concrete epistemology in regards to understanding contemporary Arab thought, not in small part due to prevailing Orientalist as well as counter-Orientalist viewpoints (e.g. “authenticity vs modernity”) that have gained traction in the wake of colonialism. Afterwards, the ever changing sociopolitical and economic factors are analyzed, ranging from the Ottoman collapse and rise in British and French imperial presence to the creation of the state of Israel and the subsequent Cold War, which birthed the radical fundamentalist movements as a result of increasing oil prices which benefited Bedouin societies such as Saudi Arabia. Throughout all these monumental events, Arab thinkers were desperately trying to make sense of the worsening circumstances and the growing disunity of the Arab world in general, which could be attributed to inexperienced political elites whose inability to govern effectively may hail from the time of Turkish and Persian rule of Muslim polities. This was especially present during the Nahda, a period of Arab renaissance characterized by intellectual openness and a yearning for all things modern, which on the aftermath of the Ottoman collapse, set the stage for a nascent Arab nationalist movement spearheaded by the likes of Sati’ al Husri as well as other provincial nationalisms focused on sub-identities (e.g Lebanon, Syria, Iraq etc.). As a result of the devastating Arab defeat in 1967 with Israel, this led to a profound identity crisis among the intelligentsia, effectively splitting it into two opposing camps, one progressive and secular camp with Marxist characteristics with the other being a reactionary Islamic movement with millenarian aspirations. The latter blamed the revolutionary nationalist movements for the failures that have characterized Arab politics, judging it to be as a result of a secular outlook on life which was deemed too materialistic and at the same time imported from outside, thus being seen as contrary to the natural state of the Arab personality. Consequently, the 1979 revolution in Iran which saw a clerical class rise to power only exacerbated the situation, drawing a substantial number of leftist groups to side with the likes of Khomeini and angering the growing Wahhabi movement who saw them as a rising competitor in the religious domain, leading to a tense atmosphere in intellectual circles concerning the discussion of Islam and modernity and how they intertwine with each other. We are then treated with an overview of Arab Christian thought as a religious discourse in addition to the ways in which Arab intellectuals have contributed to the fields of the humanities and social sciences, whose stunning analysis go deep in understanding the various challenges facing their societies (i.e. lack of industrialization and technological innovation) yet receive almost no recognition in contemporary Euro-American academia. Finally, the author calls on both Arab intellectuals as well as the youth in order to set aside the theologico-political controversies and excessive emphasis on the “authenticity vs modernity” debate in order to bring about meaningful change to the MENA region as well as raise awareness of the vast intellectual diversity that Arab thinkers over time have contributed to enrich.
A very welcome addition to the literature on Middle Eastern politics from a well known and accomplished thinker, such a work has been pending for quite some time due to the excessive focus on political Islam that academia tends to cater to, thus missing out on the hidden world of rigorous thinking in the minds of Arab intellectuals.
The book starts off with describing the richness of Arab thought and the diverse modes of cultural expression throughout the centuries, in spite of current political attempts in religious garb aiming to obfuscate it. This links to the question of religious vs national identity and how it lays at the heart of many attempts by Arab thinkers to come up with a solution for the current woes that affect the Middle East. Following that is the problem of enacting a concrete epistemology in regards to understanding contemporary Arab thought, not in small part due to prevailing Orientalist as well as counter-Orientalist viewpoints (e.g. “authenticity vs modernity”) that have gained traction in the wake of colonialism. Afterwards, the ever changing sociopolitical and economic factors are analyzed, ranging from the Ottoman collapse and rise in British and French imperial presence to the creation of the state of Israel and the subsequent Cold War, which birthed the radical fundamentalist movements as a result of increasing oil prices which benefited Bedouin societies such as Saudi Arabia. Throughout all these monumental events, Arab thinkers were desperately trying to make sense of the worsening circumstances and the growing disunity of the Arab world in general, which could be attributed to inexperienced political elites whose inability to govern effectively may hail from the time of Turkish and Persian rule of Muslim polities. This was especially present during the Nahda, a period of Arab renaissance characterized by intellectual openness and a yearning for all things modern, which on the aftermath of the Ottoman collapse, set the stage for a nascent Arab nationalist movement spearheaded by the likes of Sati’ al Husri as well as other provincial nationalisms focused on sub-identities (e.g Lebanon, Syria, Iraq etc.). As a result of the devastating Arab defeat in 1967 with Israel, this led to a profound identity crisis among the intelligentsia, effectively splitting it into two opposing camps, one progressive and secular camp with Marxist characteristics with the other being a reactionary Islamic movement with millenarian aspirations. The latter blamed the revolutionary nationalist movements for the failures that have characterized Arab politics, judging it to be as a result of a secular outlook on life which was deemed too materialistic and at the same time imported from outside, thus being seen as contrary to the natural state of the Arab personality. Consequently, the 1979 revolution in Iran which saw a clerical class rise to power only exacerbated the situation, drawing a substantial number of leftist groups to side with the likes of Khomeini and angering the growing Wahhabi movement who saw them as a rising competitor in the religious domain, leading to a tense atmosphere in intellectual circles concerning the discussion of Islam and modernity and how they intertwine with each other. We are then treated with an overview of Arab Christian thought as a religious discourse in addition to the ways in which Arab intellectuals have contributed to the fields of the humanities and social sciences, whose stunning analysis go deep in understanding the various challenges facing their societies (i.e. lack of industrialization and technological innovation) yet receive almost no recognition in contemporary Euro-American academia. Finally, the author calls on both Arab intellectuals as well as the youth in order to set aside the theologico-political controversies and excessive emphasis on the “authenticity vs modernity” debate in order to bring about meaningful change to the MENA region as well as raise awareness of the vast intellectual diversity that Arab thinkers over time have contributed to enrich.
A very welcome addition to the literature on Middle Eastern politics from a well known and accomplished thinker, such a work has been pending for quite some time due to the excessive focus on political Islam that academia tends to cater to, thus missing out on the hidden world of rigorous thinking in the minds of Arab intellectuals.
May 10, 2020
Peut-être le livre le plus complet de Georges Corm. Il reprend certains propos déjà exposés dans des livres précédents et les enrichit avec une analyse de la pensée arabe contemporaine. Le lecteur a une disposition des remarquables références bibliographiques et critiques pour explorer une galaxie d'auteurs. Un livre de grande actualité pour comprendre comment l'islamisation du monde arabe, entre autres, n'est pas la découverte d'un passé étouffé et incontournable, mais un processus artificiel de création ex nihilo, financé par certaines forces au niveau géopolitique.
February 20, 2021
عرض ممتع لمختلف التيارات الفكرية والسياسية من بداية عصر النهضة العربي.
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