L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970
In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. These two countries faced what was framed then as a “crisis of modernity”, at a time when the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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CNRS Éditions
2014-07-01
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| Series: | L’Année du Maghreb |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/2077 |
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| Summary: | In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. These two countries faced what was framed then as a “crisis of modernity”, at a time when these countries were consolidating national authority. These intellectuals’ participation in the public space was seen as innovative and daring. In this article, we look at their ideas and practices in relation to each other. The article allows us to establish the specific mechanisms of consultation that were put into place between intellectuals, authorities and the public with lasting implications. On the one hand, these essays took on special meaning for these intellectuals whose lives would be marked by disillusionment and alienation resulting from the confrontation of their idealist convictions upon completing their studies in France and the stark realities of the Maghreb of the early sixties. On the other hand, these authors placed history and the historical principle of change at the center of their analysis, thus avoiding any claim that the “crisis” was the product of the intellectual limitations of national political elites. These two axes of study will allow us to frame the issue of the social demand for history in a wider perspective, while arguing that the constituent elements of the historicity regimes in the Maghreb were put in place as early as the seventies. |
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| ISSN: | 1952-8108 2109-9405 |