الفرد الغائب في مشروع التحديث

by Lotfi M'Raihi

الناشر:
ويبقى السؤال المحير لماذا يرضى العرب بوضعهم هذا وهم يعلمون خطره على حاضرهم ومستقبلهم؟ لماذا يرضونه وهم لم يعودوا غافلين عما يجري حولهم أو يخفي عنهم شيء مما يحدث في بلاطات الحكم؟

لماذا يرضون بهذه الجمهوريات الملوكية أو الجملوكيات في حين انتقض العالم كله مشرئباً للديمقراطية والتداول على الحكم؟

والسؤال محير فعلاً إذا ما أدركنا أن الفرد يبدو على درجة فائقة من الوعي ولكن المجتمعات تظل متخاذلة وكأنها تنقصها كيمياء خاصة لتتحرك وينطبق عليها قول Vaclav Havel "إنها شعوب تعبة ولكنها لم تتعب بعد من تعبها".

140 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

A Tunisian doctor whose obsession with music has led him to learn its principles and delve into music’s contemporary history. He has dedicated part of his writings (all of them in Arabic) to music, such as: “The sweetest of talk in praising the Creator and His Prophet” about the relation between Sufi principles and religious cantillation; “Shaykh Amine Hassanein: an era of Tarab” (Tunis 2004); “Religious Cantillation in the World of Islam” (Tunis 2006); “Arab Music Where To?” (Beirut 2008). Over the years he has also produced and presented a series of programs dealing with music for both the Tunisian national and youth radio: “Songs nobody asks for”; “The sweetest of talk in praising the Creator and His Prophet” and “In the presence of Music”. He leads the Foundation for Music Creativity in Tunisia and is one of its founders. He also manages three annual festivals: the Instrumental Music Festival, the Spiritual Music Festival, and the Cantillation Festival.