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2012 Programme

Event #21

Marc Augé

The primacy of knowledge

While science progresses, the gap between its protagonists and those who have no idea of what is at stake grows deeper and deeper very fast. This justifies our fear that democracy may not spread throughout the Earth, but rather, that we will see the emergence of a planetary aristocracy of knowledge, power and wealth in opposition to a mass of simple consumers and an even larger mass of people excluded from both knowledge and consumption. Can history still have a meaning in this scenario? And what meaning? The only meaning is knowledge. And the only obstacle to knowledge is intellectual arrogance of all sorts, wanting to impose its views on mankind. In the end the history of mankind will coincide with the conquest of a scientific humility that may gradually shift the borders of the unknown and will lead to the liberation of each individual. If there is a revolution one day, it will be a revolution of education, and of the education to freedom.

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Marc Augé

one of the world’s leading ethnologists and anthropologists, has been directeur d’études and chairman of EHESS, Paris’ School of Higher Studies in Social Science. His background is in African studies, but he has spent a long time researching in Latin America as well as in Paris and in other regions of France. Augé is well known for introducing the notion of non-places. Many of his books are published in Italian. They include: Nonluoghi (2009), Che fine ha fatto il futuro? (2009), Un etnologo nel métro (2010), Ville e tenute (2011), all published by elèuthera; Disneyland e altri nonluoghi (1999); Il senso degli altri. Attualità dell’antropologia (2000); Finzioni di fine secolo (2001); Diario di guerra (2002); Rovine e macerie. Il senso del tempo (2004); Il mestiere dell’antropologo (2007); Genio del paganesimo (2008); Il bello della bicicletta (2009); Straniero a me stesso. Tutte le mie vite di etnologo (2011), Futuro (2012), Per strada e fuori rotta (September 2012), all published by Bollati Boringhieri.


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Marc Augé

The primacy of knowledge

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Enzo Moscato

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Mario Brunello

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