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Theodor Roszak, né le 15 novembre 1933 à Chicago dans l'Illinois et décédé le 5 juillet 2011 à Berkeley en Californie, est un professeur d'histoire à l'Université de Californie, un sociologue et un écrivain américain. Sa lecture du monde peut être qualifiée d'holistique. Il a popularisé la notion de contreculture en 1968 dans Vers une contre-culture et la notion d'écopsychologie en 1995.

Il est l'auteur de plusieurs essais consacrés à l'information, la science et la culture. Il collaborait également au New York Times.

✵ 15. novembre 1933 – 5. juillet 2011
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“La recherche d'une réalité communautaire prend la forme d'une opération de sauvetage massive. J'estime que c'est la grande aventure de notre temps, infiniment plus valable pour l'homme que la conquête de l'espace. Elle représente le retour et le renouveau de l'ancienne gnose. Pour ceux qui répondent à l'appel, ce qui se passe dans le monde des sciences, malgré sa place encore considérable dans le politique gouvernementales, perdra de plus en plus son sens existentiel. À leurs yeux, les scientifiques et leurs nombreux émoules feront figure de clergé archaïque, à la liturgie professionnelle absurde, occupé à échanger ses connaissances, soi-disant à la disposition du public, dans le sanctuaire secret de leur église de l'État.”

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Theodore Roszak: Citations en anglais

“The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.”

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The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)

“In a time when so many artists have learned to confabulate with extremes of horror and alienation, the most daring thing an artist can do is to fill a book, a gallery, or a theater with joy, hope, and beauty.”

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with Betty Roszak, "Deep Form in Art and Nature" Alexandria 4, Vol.4 The Order of Beauty and Nature (1997) ed. David Fideler

“Since the late 19th century, aging has been the normal state of all industrial societies; it is a sustained trend. Societies designed to cater to the needs of aging populations will soon become the accepted political condition of our species. Acknowledging that fact will, at some point, slide so smoothly into the conventional wisdom that future generations may not realize that this is a major new feature of modern life, this is different, this is not what human culture was ever meant to be—and it all started now.”

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The Making of an Elder Culture (2009)

“The alchemists of the ancient world had a teaching: "As above, so below." Four words that contain an entire cosmology…. a grand cosmic unity, a harmony resounding in the mind of God.”

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The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)

“Life… becomes an anomalous puzzle that cannot be "explained" until scientists in laboratories find a way to animate the dead matter that is the normal condition of things. This amounts to saying that life has no "place" in the world until men—the gender that originally dominated the world and still does—can create it… in a laboratory and express it in a formula. Only then will we "understand" what life is.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

“The Earth's cry for rescue from the punishing weight of the industrial system we have created is our own cry for a scale and quality of life that will free each of us to become the complete person that we were meant to be.”

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The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (2001)

“This is the point at which the "rape of nature" ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction… rape stems from a compulsive need to control, to control completely. …From …inadequacy flow fear, anger, the need to punish and subjugate. …the objective is… to dominate this elusive, troubling female so that she will do what she is ordered to do. …that requires the objectification of the other; she must become what he wants her to become.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

“We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect

“The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect

“Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

“It will be enough to define the technocracy as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who, in turn, justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge. And beyond the authority of science, there is no appeal.”

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“Goethe wondered at what point our instruments might be creating what we think we see out there in the world. …his question is still a good one. Every science of observation must take care not to get lost among its own artifacts.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.11 Only Connect

“When it is another human being who is being… objectified, everybody (except the rapist) can clearly see the act as a crime. But when we objectify the natural world, turning it into a dead or stupid thing, we have another word for that. Science.”

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Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.7 The Rape of Nature

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