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Dirassat

Abstract

Any discourse on modernity involves the way of being, thinking and creating and remains strongly linked to the political, ideological and cultural climates that saw it born and evolve, hence thoughts and expressions managed, ipso facto, either in the relationship of fidelity to genealogical belonging, or in that of hospitable overcoming with regard to the other. However, strangely, the discourse on modernity of the writer-poet and essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb is driven by a faithful infidelity with regard to his auroral scene. This duality permeates the Meddebian work of dyonysism and apollinism under the aegis of modernity which frames, at the same time, the polymorphic literary creation and the critical and skeptical thought heir to the age of Enlightenment. Thus, our objective is to question the discourse on modernity in the work of Abdelwahab Meddeb, precisely, through its dual aesthetic and political dimension, in a perspective that is both retrospective and anticipatory, which questions memory, makes the signs of tradition speak and attempts remedies for diffuse or declared bloodthirsty violence, delimited or deterritorialized but advocating the rigid triumph of the homogeneous and whose age is well past.

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