Bernard Charbonneau

See also: Charbonneau

Bernard Charbonneau (born the November 28th 1910, with Bordeaux - died the April 28th 1996) was a French thinker and philosopher.

Biography

Born in Bordeaux in 1910, parents Batch-and-Garonnais, the young Bernard Charbonneau feels quickly “locked up” in the city where his/her father holds a pharmacy.

After a Baccalaureat of philosophy to Bordeaux, the Montaigne college, he studies the History and the Geography at the University of Bordeaux until the aggregation which he obtains in 1935.

At twenty-four years, occupant of its first post of teacher with Bayonne, it starts to create “clubs of press” and newsgroups with some friends (of which Jacques Ellul) to think of all the changes that involves famous scientific “progress”.

After the foundation (1932) of the review Spirit by Emmanuel Mounier, its group becomes “the group Personnaliste South-west” and joined the movement. But concerned not to separate the reflection from the life, it involves his friends and comrades in explorations and escapades (Galicia, Canary islands, the Pyrenees Spanish then without roads nor charts) or in valley of Winder (Bedous) and in the Pyrenees Atlantiques (Saint-EP of Léren). Teach during the Fifties/sixty at the Teacher training school Teachers of Lescar where it marks the students teachers of its strong personality, simultaneously making profitable the proximity of the countryside inhabitant of Béarn and the Pyrenees to carry out experiments (cf survival near Gave of Pau).

Living with the variation of the ideological effervescence of the war and the immediate one after war, it analyzes the modern societies, denounces the dictatorship of the economy and the development. Pioneer of ecology, it was wary of the ecology policy, it however proposes to conceive the shape of organization of the company, radically different from the attitudes adopted previously and ideologies from the twentieth century. He was in love with modest nature and humanistic. Enthusiast of freedom, he is wary of technological advance, source of always more organization and less freedom.

Quotations

  • “freedom, it is a man… source of his thought, consequently of its acts. ”
  • “the awakening… is the only act which is irreducible with any deterministic criticism. ”
  • “nonsense of the life? Who would speak about it if not a spirit dreaming of a direction? ”

Works

  • Teilhard of Chardin, prophet of a totalitarian age , 1963
  • the Paradox of the culture , 1965
  • Celebration of the cock , 1966
  • Sunday and Monday , 1966
  • Hommauto , 1966
  • the Garden of Babylon , 1969
  • End of the landscape , 1972
  • the System and chaos. Critical of the exponential development , 1973
  • Sad campaigns , 1973
  • Our clean slate , 1974
  • Green light , 1980
  • I was , 1980
  • the One second nature , 1981
  • the State , 1987
  • the System and chaos , 1990
  • Nuit and day , 1991
  • Sauver our areas , 1991
  • It runs, it runs the money… , 1996
  • a Feast for Tantalum , 1997
  • to love its mom , 2006

See too

External bonds

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