Thursday, March 01, 2018

 

Phantoms

Marc Bloch (1886-1944), The Historian's Craft, tr. Peter Putnam (New York: Vintage Books, 1953), p. 151:
As for homo religiosus, homo oeconomicus, homo politicus, and all that rigmarole of Latinized men, the list of which we could string out indefinitely, there is grave danger of mistaking them for something else than they really are: phantoms which are convenient providing they do not become nuisances. The man of flesh and bone, reuniting them all simultaneously, is the only real being.

Or, homo religiosus, homo oeconomicus, homo politicus, toute cette kyrielle d'hommes en us dont on pourrait, à plaisir, allonger la liste, le péril serait grave de les prendre pour autre chose que ce qu'ils sont en vérité: des fantômes commodes, à condition de ne pas devenir encombrants. Le seul être de chair et d'os est l'homme, sans plus, qui réunit à la fois tout cela.



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