Abraham Flexner

Robbert Dijkgraaf

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Faydasiz Bilginin Faydasi

Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Medical Education in the United States and Canada

Nuccio Ordine

Il n'est pas vrai que seul ce qui est source de profit soit utile. Il existe dans les démocraties marchandes des savoirs réputés "inutiles" qui se révèlent en réalité d'une extraordinaire utilité. Dans ce pamphlet, Nuccio Ordine attire notre attention sur l'utilité de l'inutile et sur l'inutilité de l'utile. À travers les réflexions de grands philosophes (Platon, Aristote, Pic de la Mirandole, Montaigne, Kant, Tocqueville, Heidegger) et de grands écrivains (Ovide, Dante, Pétrarque, Boccace, Cervantès, Lessing, Dickens, García Márquez, Ionesco, Calvino), il montre comment l'obsession de posséder et le culte de l'utilité finissent par dessécher l'esprit, en mettant en péril les écoles et les universités, l'art et la créativité, ainsi que certaines valeurs fondamentales telle que la dignité humaine, l'amour et la vérité.

manifeste

L'utilité de l'inutile

A Comparative Study

Medical Education

A short biography of the educator and first president of Johns Hopkins University. -- Dust jacket.

Creator of the American Type of University

Daniel Coit Gilman

Non è vero – neanche in tempo di crisi – che è utile solo ciò che produce profitto. Esistono, nelle democrazie mercantili, saperi ritenuti “inutili” che invece si rivelano di una straordinaria utilità. In questo brillante e originale saggio, Nuccio Ordine attira la nostra attenzione sull’utilità dell’inutile e sull’inutilità dell’utile. Attraverso le riflessioni di grandi filosofi (Platone, Aristotele, Zhuang-zi, Pico della Mirandola, Montaigne, Bruno, Campanella, Bacone, Kant, Tocqueville, Newman, Poincaré, Heidegger, Bataille) e di grandi scrittori (Ovidio, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Alberti, Ariosto, Moro, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Lessing, Leopardi, Hugo, Gautier, Dickens, Herzen, Baudelaire, Stevenson, Kakuzo Okakura, García Lorca, García Márquez, Ionesco, Calvino, Foste Wallace), Nuccio Ordine mostra come l’ossessione del possesso e il culto dell’utilità finiscano per inaridire lo spirito, mettendo in pericolo non solo le scuole e le università, l’arte e la creatività, ma anche alcuni valori fondamentali come la dignitas hominis, l’amore e la verità. Abraham Flexner – nel suo affascinante saggio tradotto per la prima volta in italiano – ricorda che pure le scienze ci insegnano l’utilità dell’inutile. Eliminando la gratuità e l’inutile, uccidendo quei lussi ritenuti superflui, difficilmente l’homo sapiens potrà rendere più umana l’umanità.

Manifesto

L'utilità dell'inutile

Medical Education in Europe

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Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

English summary: Nuccio Ordine and Abraham Flexner argue for the usefulness of the useless. Through the reflections of great philosophers, writers, and science, both authors show how the obsession with usefulness and utility desiccates the soul, creativity, and society, how the suppression of the superfluous deprives humans of their humanity. French description: Il n'est pas vrai pas meme en temps de crise que seul ce qui est source de profit soit utile. Il existe dans les democraties marchandes des savoirs reputes inutiles qui se revelent en realite dune extraordinaire utilite. Dans cet ardent pamphlet, Nuccio Ordine attire notre attention sur lutilite de linutile et sur linutilite de lutile. A travers les reflexions de grands philosophes (Platon, Aristote, Tchouang-tseu, Pic de la Mirandole, Montaigne, Bruno, Kant, Tocqueville, Newman, Heidegger) et de grands ecrivains (Ovide, Dante, Petrarque, Boccace, LArioste, Cervantes, Lessing, Dickens, Okatura Kakuzo, Garcia Marquez, Ionesco, Calvino), Nuccio Ordine montre comment lobsession de posseder et le culte de lutilite finissent par dessecher lesprit, en mettant en peril les ecoles et les universites, lart et la creativite, ainsi que certaines valeurs fondamentales telle que la dignitas hominis, lamour et la verite. Dans son remarquable essai traduit pour la premiere fois en francais, Abraham Flexner souligne que les sciences, elles aussi, nous enseignent lutilite de linutile. Ainsi, sil elimine la gratuite et linutile, sil supprime les luxes juges superflus, lhomo sapiens aura bien du mal a rendre l'humanite plus humaine.

Abraham Flexner

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