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Etudes, Dec 11, 2014
Le christianisme se vit dans la pluralite des cultures. Des exemples significatifs se rencontrent... more Le christianisme se vit dans la pluralite des cultures. Des exemples significatifs se rencontrent en Afrique et en Asie. Ces continents ont recu le christianisme a partir de l’Europe, autrement dit, d’une culture qui leur etait etrangere. La rencontre n’a pas toujours ete sans tensions ni conflits. Mais dans le meilleur des cas, elle conduit a inventer de nouvelles figures chretiennes. Les contributions de Ludovic Lado et de Pierre de Charentenay precedent une reflexion de Jean-Claude Guillebaud montrant en quoi la rencontre de l’autre enrichit sa propre foi.
World Literature Today, 1985
Diogenes, 2002
All of us share the same feeling of being torn between two equally impossible attitudes, namely t... more All of us share the same feeling of being torn between two equally impossible attitudes, namely the absurdity of resistance and the abjectness of renunciation, that is to say a feeling of surrender to the course of events and I think that it is true that we are all more or less filled with this feeling or to revert to other terminology which I will borrow from Jacques Ellul, we all have the feeling of being swept away in a haphazard process over which we no longer have any hold. In this respect, I tend to agree with Alain CaiII6, that we are at the moment experiencing a shift, a transformation, a revolution use whichever term you prefer such as has only happened two or three times in western history and it is true that this great shift is probably comparable, to the Renaissance, say, or the fall of the Roman Empire or possibly the Enlightenment or even the Industrial Revolution in its extent, radicality and also what is enigmatic about it that for those who are experiencing it. There is a radicality in what we are experiencing which is the source of that feeling which sometimes assails us that all resistance would not only be useless but ridiculous. I intend to deconstruct, if I may so express it, this feeling of ridicule which is paralysing us and which indeed paralyses us all the more because it is exploited day after day by talk of flux in which all desires and all ethical or political voluntarism is in general described as some kind of residual archaism.
Matador Revista De Cultura Ideas Y Tendencias, 2015
Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation, 2011
Over the past 15 years it has become increasingly accepted that there is a need to integrate the ... more Over the past 15 years it has become increasingly accepted that there is a need to integrate the principles and practices of sustainability with the principles and practices of risk mitigation. Only by adopting a sustainable approach to risk mitigation, it is argued, can effective, equitable and long term approaches to mitigating risks and building resilience be developed. In this book we consider what the integration of sustainability and risk mitigation might mean, why it is needed to manage the likely future profiles of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk in Europe, and how it might be pursued specifically in a European context.
Landslides – Disaster Risk Reduction
... Sacred sites Archaeological sites Monumental sculpture Monumental painting Architecture and t... more ... Sacred sites Archaeological sites Monumental sculpture Monumental painting Architecture and town planning Historic landscapes Burial sites Sites of religious significance Pre-historic sites Historical sites Engineering and industrial sites Submerged or marine sites Sites within ...
The photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud belong to a... more The photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud belong to a generation who grew up with the word 'Vietnam' on their lips. As journalists, both had covered the Vietnam War until 1972. after twenty long years - of Stalinism, boat people, Hollywood heroics and French nostalgia - they decided it was time to go back. Vietnam, they believed, was not a story which 'you could simply stop watching and switch off'. They travelled from South to North, from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Hanoi, exploring memories of the war and the contradictions of peace, looking and listening with a sensitivity and sense of solidarity all too rare in travel writing. The result is an extraordinary account of a country transformed and of a people, victors and victims together, betrayed on all sides, coming back to life. In Hanoi the find none of the grim austerity imagined by foreigners, but rather a city of beauty now 'opening' to capitalism partly th...
Etudes, Dec 11, 2014
Le christianisme se vit dans la pluralite des cultures. Des exemples significatifs se rencontrent... more Le christianisme se vit dans la pluralite des cultures. Des exemples significatifs se rencontrent en Afrique et en Asie. Ces continents ont recu le christianisme a partir de l’Europe, autrement dit, d’une culture qui leur etait etrangere. La rencontre n’a pas toujours ete sans tensions ni conflits. Mais dans le meilleur des cas, elle conduit a inventer de nouvelles figures chretiennes. Les contributions de Ludovic Lado et de Pierre de Charentenay precedent une reflexion de Jean-Claude Guillebaud montrant en quoi la rencontre de l’autre enrichit sa propre foi.
World Literature Today, 1985
Diogenes, 2002
All of us share the same feeling of being torn between two equally impossible attitudes, namely t... more All of us share the same feeling of being torn between two equally impossible attitudes, namely the absurdity of resistance and the abjectness of renunciation, that is to say a feeling of surrender to the course of events and I think that it is true that we are all more or less filled with this feeling or to revert to other terminology which I will borrow from Jacques Ellul, we all have the feeling of being swept away in a haphazard process over which we no longer have any hold. In this respect, I tend to agree with Alain CaiII6, that we are at the moment experiencing a shift, a transformation, a revolution use whichever term you prefer such as has only happened two or three times in western history and it is true that this great shift is probably comparable, to the Renaissance, say, or the fall of the Roman Empire or possibly the Enlightenment or even the Industrial Revolution in its extent, radicality and also what is enigmatic about it that for those who are experiencing it. There is a radicality in what we are experiencing which is the source of that feeling which sometimes assails us that all resistance would not only be useless but ridiculous. I intend to deconstruct, if I may so express it, this feeling of ridicule which is paralysing us and which indeed paralyses us all the more because it is exploited day after day by talk of flux in which all desires and all ethical or political voluntarism is in general described as some kind of residual archaism.
Matador Revista De Cultura Ideas Y Tendencias, 2015
Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation, 2011
Over the past 15 years it has become increasingly accepted that there is a need to integrate the ... more Over the past 15 years it has become increasingly accepted that there is a need to integrate the principles and practices of sustainability with the principles and practices of risk mitigation. Only by adopting a sustainable approach to risk mitigation, it is argued, can effective, equitable and long term approaches to mitigating risks and building resilience be developed. In this book we consider what the integration of sustainability and risk mitigation might mean, why it is needed to manage the likely future profiles of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk in Europe, and how it might be pursued specifically in a European context.
Landslides – Disaster Risk Reduction
... Sacred sites Archaeological sites Monumental sculpture Monumental painting Architecture and t... more ... Sacred sites Archaeological sites Monumental sculpture Monumental painting Architecture and town planning Historic landscapes Burial sites Sites of religious significance Pre-historic sites Historical sites Engineering and industrial sites Submerged or marine sites Sites within ...
The photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud belong to a... more The photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud belong to a generation who grew up with the word 'Vietnam' on their lips. As journalists, both had covered the Vietnam War until 1972. after twenty long years - of Stalinism, boat people, Hollywood heroics and French nostalgia - they decided it was time to go back. Vietnam, they believed, was not a story which 'you could simply stop watching and switch off'. They travelled from South to North, from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Hanoi, exploring memories of the war and the contradictions of peace, looking and listening with a sensitivity and sense of solidarity all too rare in travel writing. The result is an extraordinary account of a country transformed and of a people, victors and victims together, betrayed on all sides, coming back to life. In Hanoi the find none of the grim austerity imagined by foreigners, but rather a city of beauty now 'opening' to capitalism partly th...