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Du renouveau du cosmopolitisme au panafricanisme méthodologique : une théorie de la transformation des acteurs
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Sanon, Guy Mukasa |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Among the numerous contemporary socio-political changes, globalization appears as the most important with regard to its theoretical and institutional consequences. Generalized interdependence due to the global challenges and the expectations linked to contextual problems have shifted philosophical and political debates toward questions concerning the role and the place of actors in the process of collective decisions. It is this observation that leads to the central question of this research: what are the conditions required such that, in a context determined by interdependence, cosmopolitanism may be a system where actors may participate in a socio-political way through their own self-transformation. Our basic hypothesis aims at answering this question. We want to show, on one hand, that methodological cosmopolitanism, that of which Beck is the greatest contemporary theoretician, can be reconstructed as a theory of transformation of actors, and on the other hand, we think we shall be able to prove, that it is on the condition of such an interpretation of cosmopolitanism that it is possible to reread, in a new manner, the pan-africanist theories of the 1960, while discovering in them, an avant-gardist form of political thought which could guide some aspects of contemporary reflections on globalization. The rereading of cosmopolitanism to which we proceed, works out a symbolic shift: the passage from a substantial cosmopolitanism having republicanism as its central sign, to a cosmopolitanism whose essential characteristic is to be founded on the interdependence of life contexts, and on the collaborative initiative of the actors. We proceed by the elaboration of a cosmopolitan methodology which may be ready in itself, to take into account, the spatial transformation of democratic procedures in view of satisfying the new expectations of the citizens. This methodology qualifies at the same time as a theory of social transformation, by the way of the transformation of the actors. To do this, we call on two actors: Antonio Gramsci and Ulrich Beck. The application of the cathartic scheme, drawn from the works of the former, to the cosmopolitanism of the latter, permits its reconstruction as a theory of the transformation of actors opening out on three levels: the psychological level, the “gnoseological” level and strategic level. What confers on this cosmopolitical scheme its validity, is not its substantial content, but the method it harbors permitting to proceed to an applied philosophy in the third part. We attempt at writing a contextualized version of methodological cosmopolitanism that we call methodological pan-africanism. On the basis of the three characteristic levels of methodological cosmopolitanism, we elaborate a theory of the transformation of actors proper to the pan-african context. In this sense, methodological pan-africanism, in surpassing the strategies of cooperative type for the strategies of interdependence, gives a historical response consistent with the global context of the policies of integration. At the hour of great togetherness, the methodological pan-africanism allows the African continent to combine pragmatism and democracy, while being attentive to the particularities that national ideology strived to deny but in vain, and while situating people at the foundation of the process and the norms of integration. |
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