the imposingly versatile Garry Wills<\/em>\u00bb \u00e0 propos de la perspective \u00e0 adopter pour faire l’histoire de la pr\u00e9sidence imp\u00e9riale am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t[] \u00abGarry Wills, Northwestern University historian, political polemicist, sometime philosopher, theologian, and church historian, has just published a book inspired by liberal disappointment with President Barack Obama, blaming his faults as well as other American presidential disorders on the atom bomb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe argues that possession of the bomb, product of an enormous and secret scientific undertaking, the Manhattan Project, launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt, has ever since given American presidents an intoxicating degree of unchecked personal power, so that there is no constitutional check on his actions…[which amounts to] a violent break in our whole governmental system.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tJe n’ai pas lu Garry Wills , mais il semble bien que la querelle porte aussi sur la compr\u00e9hension du technologisme. Pfaff ne nie pas que des technologies puissent avoir un impact historique d\u00e9terminant, il refuse une saisie m\u00e9canique et pauvre de cet impact. Il semble voir dans cette pauvret\u00e9 m\u00e9canique une sorte de technologisme historique (comme on disait mat\u00e9rialisme historique; telle technologie, telle histoire.) et non une histoire du technologisme (qui reste \u00e0 faire.).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abIt is impossible to see these all as the responsibility of individual presidents, intoxicated by their possession of nuclear power. I see it as developing out of an American millenarianism, kept in check in the past by isolationism and hostility towards imperial Europe, which during the World War underwent a vainglorious globalization under Woodrow Wilson who believed, literally, that God had entrusted both him and the American nation with missions of peaceful global reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat was a half-century before the nuclear bomb. Rather than inspiring war, it inspired the League of Nations, which the U.S. Senate refused to join, and later the UN: not the military-industrial state.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFranklin Roosevelt was committed to the Wilsonian mission well before Albert Einstein sent him the fateful letter in which Einstein warned that a nuclear bomb might be feasible, and that German physicists might be working to construct one.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat and Bolshevism, a program of secular utopianism based on sectarian power and ambition, which provoked the Cold War that ensued are the sources of America’s imperial presidency. And however Barack Obama may eventually be judged, he is today anything but an imperial president.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’histoire du technologisme a ses liens avec celle-ci, elle n’a pas de cause technique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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