The Idea Of Change And Philosophy Of Renewal In Malek Bennabi Intellectual Approach

Résumé

This paper aims at clarifying the philosophy of renewal and demystifying the idea of change in relation to the notion ‘heaping up’ fought by Malek Bennabi. Findings of the paper confirm that Bennabi’s vision to renewal in his equation to civilization clarified to a very far extent the backwardness of the ex-colonized. As a pertinent recommendation, we endorse the fact that renewal for Bennabi is a ‘therapy’ to what he called ‘intellectual misery’, ‘civilization bankruptcy’ and fossilized ‘heaping up’ of dead/deadly ideas. By the end, we conclude that “Man of Civilization” in Bennabi’s equation should move beyond being a dead cell in the society to a Man who thinks and produces with ethical, aesthetical, logical and artistic orientation and therefore he should be always on an ongoing process of change, renewal and freedom.