{"id":7841,"date":"2007-09-04T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2007\/09\/04\/les-fanatiques-de-lapocalypse-norman-cohn\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:16:01","slug":"les-fanatiques-de-lapocalypse-norman-cohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/2007\/09\/04\/les-fanatiques-de-lapocalypse-norman-cohn\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Fanatiques de l&rsquo;Apocalypse (Norman Cohn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eastwoodclint.free.fr\/clint_mystique\/apocalypse.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D&uuml;rer, Cavaliers de l&rsquo;Apocalypse, 1498<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Pourquoi des individus &eacute;prouvent-ils le<i> \u00ab\u00a0besoin psychique de purifier le monde par l&rsquo;annihilation de certaines cat&eacute;gories d&rsquo;&ecirc;tres humains que l&rsquo;on imagine comme des facteurs de corruption et des incarnations du mal\u00a0\u00bb<\/i>?:\u00a0\u00bb(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/web\/article\/0,1-0@2-3382,36-949788@51-949881,0.html\">Le Monde.fr : Norman Cohn, historien britannique<\/a>)\u00a0\u00bb: <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Norman Cohn (1915-2007), historien britannique qui vient de d&eacute;c&eacute;der, a consacr&eacute; &agrave; cette question l&rsquo;essentiel de ses recherches d&egrave;s la fin de la deuxi&egrave;me guerre mondiale. Dans <i>The Pursuit of the Millennium<\/i> (en fran&ccedil;ais, d&egrave;s 1962, sous le titre <i>Les Fanatiques de l&rsquo;Apocalypse<\/i>), publi&eacute; en 1957, Cohn apporte une premi&egrave;re r&eacute;ponse &agrave; cette question. Il y raconte comment diff&eacute;rents mouvements mill&eacute;naristes, entre le XIe et le XVIe si&egrave;cle, ont convaincu certaines franges de la population pauvre que l&rsquo;am&eacute;lioration de leur condition devait passer par l&rsquo;&eacute;limination de groupes d&eacute;termin&eacute;s &#8211; les riches, le clerg&eacute; ou les juifs selon les cas.<\/p>\n<p>Pour Cohn (&eacute;dition de 1957), les deux grands courants autoritaires et r&eacute;volutionnaires de ce d&eacute;funt vingti&egrave;me si&egrave;cle, nazisme et communisme seraient des r&eacute;miniscences directes de ces r&eacute;volutions mystiques du moyen-&acirc;ge. Sans faire l&rsquo;amalgame entre ces deux r&eacute;gimes, ils poss&egrave;dent n&eacute;anmoins des caract&eacute;ristiques communes : les conditions socio-&eacute;conomiques de leur apparition, l&rsquo;av&egrave;nement prochain d&rsquo;un &acirc;ge d&rsquo;or (la soci&eacute;t&eacute; communiste et le Reich de mille ans), ce dernier passant par l&rsquo;extermination des &laquo;m&eacute;chants&raquo; (tax&eacute;s qui d&rsquo;esprit bourgeois, qui de juda&iuml;sme).<\/p>\n<p>Un r&eacute;sum&eacute; de lecture de l&rsquo;ouvrage : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hommes-et-faits.com\/Dial\/spip.php?article50\">Les fanatiques de l&rsquo;Apocalypse. Lecture du livre de Norman Cohn<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&uuml;rer, Cavaliers de l&rsquo;Apocalypse, 1498 Pourquoi des individus &eacute;prouvent-ils le \u00ab\u00a0besoin psychique de purifier le monde par l&rsquo;annihilation de certaines cat&eacute;gories d&rsquo;&ecirc;tres humains que l&rsquo;on imagine comme des facteurs de corruption et des incarnations du mal\u00a0\u00bb?:\u00a0\u00bb(Le Monde.fr : Norman Cohn, historien britannique)\u00a0\u00bb: Norman Cohn (1915-2007), historien britannique qui vient de d&eacute;c&eacute;der, a consacr&eacute; &agrave; cette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-histoire-2","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/apocalypse.jpg?resize=320%2C400&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/apocalypse.jpg?resize=320%2C442&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Lyonel Kaufmann","author_link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/author\/lyonelk\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/apocalypse.jpg?fit=320%2C442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qtF4-22t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11291,"url":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/Blog\/2014\/03\/20\/revue-de-presse-apocalypse-grand-spectacle-guerres-et-conflits\/","url_meta":{"origin":7841,"position":0},"title":"Revue de Presse : Apocalypse grand spectacle &#8211; Guerres-et-conflits","author":"Lyonel Kaufmann","date":"20 mars 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Apocalypse grand spectacle - Guerres-et-conflits Byguerres-et-conflits.over-blog.com - Le \"documentaire\" dont la diffusion a commenc\u00e9 mardi soir sur France 2 pose \u00e0 l'historien de nombreuses questions \u00e0 partir de points de vue difficilement compatibles. 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