The Strange Order of Things – Antonio Damasio

Déc 5, 2017 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

Antonio Damasio invites us to a radically new and profoundly original reflection on the links between the origins of life, the emergence of the spirit and the construction of culture that Antonio Damasio invites us in this landmark book.
Combining, in a pioneering approach, the achievements of the life sciences and the contribution of the humanities, Antonio Damasio shows that the living carries within him an irrepressible force, homeostasis, which works for the continuation of life and regulates all manifestations, be they biological, psychological and even social.
The Strange Order of Things describes how, in the course of an invisible genealogy, emotions, feelings, the functioning of the mind, but also the most complex forms of culture and social organization, are rooted in the oldest single-celled organisms.
A strong thesis, powerfully argued, which is sure to provoke debate.
A great book that changes our thinking habits and makes us see in an unprecedented light our place in the long chain of life.

Knowledge, Ignorance, Mystery – Edgar Morin

Déc 1, 2017 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

"Increasing his knowledge increases his ignorance," Friedrich Schlegel said.

 

"I live more and more with the consciousness and the feeling of the presence of the unknown in the known, of the enigma in the banal, of the mystery in all things and, in particular, of the advances of a new ignorance in every advance of knowledge" says Edgar Morin.

Thus he undertook in this book to patrol the new territories of knowledge, where reveals an inseparable trio: knowledge mystery ignorance.

In his eyes, the mystery does not devalue the knowledge that leads to it. It makes us aware of the occult powers that command and possess us, like Daimon inside and outside of us. But, above all, it stimulates and strengthens the poetic feeling of existence.

Free our brains – Idriss Aberkane

Nov 5, 2017 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

Neurosage treatise to change school and society

Our brain is bigger than all his creations. It is not up to our brains to adapt to our creations, but the other way around. From medicine to politics, from marketing to education, applying this principle is about changing yourself… and change the world. Our society today brews a huge amount of knowledge and, despite everything, produces very little wisdom. But a civilization that produces a lot of knowledge without wisdom is doomed to self-destruction. The book deals in particular with neuroergonomy, the science that studies the brain at work. From school to office, or in the city, the potential of this new science is immense, both socially and economically. It accurately describes our brain, its abilities, its limits, its blind spots, and the known ways of using it to the best of its ability. Recent cases show us how perfect the use of our brains is: prodigious calculators manage to calculate the thirteenth root of a hundred-digit number in less than four seconds. Now they have the same brain as us! The difference therefore lies in the way they use it, and in particular in their ability to spread the cognitive load over several functions of their mind.

This ability, Idriss Aberkane explains how we could all master it.

CHANGE ACTOR – Beatrice Quasnik

Sep 26, 2016 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

Keys to relational grammar

I have read your text and I agree with all your words and your conception. You are persistently and strategicly introducing humanistic ideas and feelings into the company that needs them, because the processes of dehumanization progress faster than those of humanization. Edgar Morin

This book shows the importance of the role of managers who, through their personal commitment, stimulate in their teams a momentum of vitality by giving meaning to projects while achieving the indispensable economic performance. This book will be useful for managers if it raises awareness of their role and the personal influence they can have far beyond what they imagine. At the team level, it can inspire, trigger initiatives, and create new postures of openness and engagement. This positive contamination can do oil work and win close to the other teams and, why not, the whole organization. Excerpt from Sylvie Dangelser's preface, L'Oréal Corporate Director – Learning for development

EMERGENT SOLIDARITIES – INSTITUTIONS IN GERME – Olivier Frérot

Sep 26, 2016 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

Our public institutions, stemming from Modernity, are essentially based on faith in science and reason, which have been irrigating our philosophies for four centuries and whose basis is the principle of non-contradiction that comes to us from the Greeks.
This belief is greatly weakened at the beginning of the 21st century, due to the failure of the ideals linked to Progress, environmental disasters, as well as, more profoundly but, less well known, the gradual discovery of the radical incompleteness of mathematics, therefore of all science and therefore of all modeling.
However, our current public institutions have become inefficient and unreformable.
Every day, life invents new things in our society and new solidarity is forged.
This book shows what is emerging at the heart of society, outside of institutions, emergences based on discretion, fragility, simplicity, openness, solidarity, but also welcoming the structural and structuring uncertainty of our daily lives.
Affirming the end of the so-called Modern period and its shift towards a more open world, this text argues for a philosophy that detaches the science of technoscience and puts science and reason at a second place in relation to life and existence, where paradoxes reign and rational discourse gives way to sensitivity. , art and poetry.

METAMORPHOSIS OF OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS – Olivier Frérot

Sep 26, 2016 | Non classé | 0 commentaires

Our public institutions have been built on the philosophical foundations of science and reason. At the beginning of the 21st century, they are cracking under the collapse of the belief in Progress, environmental disasters, as well as the gradual discovery of the radical incompleteness of mathematics, thus of all science and therefore of all modeling.
The problem is structurally insurmountable, our public institutions are running out of steam irretrievably.
The thesis defended in this book is to affirm that the belief in the operational power of science and non-contradictory reason, once effective, is now exhausted. Are our public institutions reformable? The answer here is no, because their sap is dried up.
But new germinations, capable of welcoming the structural and structuring uncertainty of everyday life, appear at the heart of our society, and herald its shift towards a more open world, allowing us to regain confidence in the future. Their emergence is based on otherness which becomes the new name of brotherhood, where the desire for the risk of uncontrollable encounter flourishes.
Here, the author questions the foundations of our public institutions at the crossroads of several disciplines, science, technology, philosophy and economics. Beyond his expertise as an engineer nourished by philosophy, he adopts the bias of the citizen, who denounces the excesses of the supremacy of technoscience threatening our democracies, and welcomes changes on the margins of our society as signs that a new era is opening up for us.