Edouard Jolly
Mythe et technique. Autour de Cassirer
Résumé : Cet article propose d’examiner la forme symbolique qu’est la technique dans son rapport au mythe, ce afin d’en examiner les conséquences anthropologiques et politiques. La technique, en tant qu’ouverture du possible, dépassement de l’imitation de la nature et « émancipation à l’égard de la barrière organique », transpose la question descriptive « qu’est-ce qui est ? » en une question normative « qu’est-ce qui peut être ? ». L’homme construit son horizon d’objets, constitue son monde et l’intuition de sa propre essence, en se mouvant dans le champ des possibles ouvert par la technique. La soumission aux lois de la nature est ainsi toujours à « re-former » et à « re-poser » : elle se transforme. En remontant de la forma formata à la forma formans, du devenu au principe du devenir, Cassirer nous invite établir une critique de la technique dont l’objectif n’est ni l’analyse de ses oeuvres, ni la recherche d’une essence anhistorique, mais la mise au jour de l’aspiration à la mise en forme, changement de sens et d’aspect du monde, dans le processus d’extériorisation technique.
Abstract : This article aims at analyzing the symbolic form which is technology in its relation with myth so as to examine its anthropological and political consequences. Technology, as opening of the possible, overrunning the imitation of nature and “emancipation with respect to organic barriers” turns the descriptive question “what is this” in the normative one, “what could this be?”. Man builds his horizon of objects, creates his world and the intuition of his own essence, by living in the field of possibility opened by technology. Thus, obeying the laws of nature has to be always “re-formed” and “reasserted”: it is changing. Passing from forma formata to forma formans, from having become to the principle of becoming, Cassirer invites us to establish a criticism of technology neither for the purpose of analyzing his works, nor for searching a historical essence. The purpose is to update the aim for the set up, change of sense and aspect of the world in the process of technological exteriorization.
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EDOUARD JOLLY (2012) «Mythe et technique. Autour de Cassirer», [En ligne], Volume XVII - n°4 (2012). Coordonné par Audrey Moutat,
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