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LE TOURNANT
DU MONDE PLEIN*
Professeur à la Sorbonne
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La durée
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II
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Je concluerai rapidement.
Sur ce choix du xme siècle, pas de vraie rupture, pas de
vraie rupture au cœur, avant la fin du xvine ici, le milieu du
XIXe là, plus sûrement, les années 20 et les années 60 du xxe siècle.
En fait, la civilisation chrétienne traditionnelle du monde
plein s'est laïcisée dans les choix et les transpositions des Lumiè
res. L'ascétique puritaine de l'Angleterre victorienne a quelque
chose d'emprunté à l'ordre de saint Benoît. Il y a un raccourcis
sement de l'eschatologie chrétienne, réinvestissement de l'escha
tologie sur la croissance économique.
Mais un choix longtemps n'a jamais été mis en cause, la
valeur cérébralisante de l'ascétique sexuelle. Les permutations des
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