يتعذّر أحياناً على بعض المثقفين الوفاء بالالتزامات، على مستوى لقاءات، حوارات، مشاركات في ندوات وأمسيات، وفيما يرى البعض أن الالتزام مربك، واقتحام للخصوصية، هناك من يبرر غيابه الثقافي والإبداعي بانشغال، أو عدم توفر الوقت، أو أنه ملّ، أو ليس لديه حماس، وقلّة يصرفهم مزاج متقلّب، أو شعور بانعدام جدوى أي مشاركة، وهنا نطرح السؤال عن مدى حرص المثقف، الأديب، المبدع على أن يلتزم بنشاط أو إسهام في فعالية يُدعى لها، وما مسوغات التثاقل عنها؟
الناقد الدكتور صغير العنزي يرى أنّ المثقّف، الباحث الجادّ -تحديداً- يكون مشغولاً فكريّاً بأبحاثه، وأفكار مواضيع، والأفكار المهمّة والبِكْر ليست من المطروح بالطّريق الذي مُهمّة صاحبه الرّصف فقط، وإنّما يقوم على أسئلة، واستنباط، وتأمّل، وشتات يبحث عن لمِّه، وجمعه، وفكرةٍ غائبة يُجْرَى خلفها، وفكرةٍ أخرى عسيرة المُرتَقى يُحاول تفكيكها للوصول إلى نتيجة، فرأسُهُ أشبهُ ما يكون بالمصنع الذي لا تهدأ ماكينته من العمل والضخّ. ويؤكد العنزي أنّ ذلك يصحبه جهدٌ كبيرٌ من التأمّل والمطالعة، والركض خلف المراجع، والتقاط معلومةٍ من هنا، وأخرى من هناك. هذا ما يُشكّل عليه عبئاً ثقيلاً، وربما يكون همّاً يقضّ مضجعه، وأي انقطاع عن ملاحقة الفكرة يجعلها تشرد بلا عودة، وأي تأخّر ربما يضيع عقد فكرةٍ كانت منتظمة، ولفت إلى أنّ الباحث في جهادٍ مستمرّ ما بين فكريّ وآخر ماديّ (القراءة وتتبّع المراجع)، والانشغال يجعله قلقاً أكثر لو انصرف لغير بحثه لأنّه يقطعه عنه، وقلقاً مع بحثه أيضاً، لأنّه في حال صراعٍ مع الأفكار، والصراع معها عملٌ مُضنٍ، وجبّار، وحملٌ ثقيل الوطأة على صاحبه، ما يجعله يضيق ذرعاً بالالتزامات، كون أبحاثه واشتغالاته تُشكّل عليه التزاماً أثقل من كلّ التزام.
فيما عدّها الشاعر مريّع آل سوادي، نسبية التلازم ومزاجية الالتزام، وقال: الأديب مرتهن لانشغاله الجاد بمشروعه الخاص، ومما يؤثر في جديته، الاشتغال بالمحيط من حوله، وهو في حالة ارتباك، وقلق دائم، لا ينفك يعيد إنتاجه من وقت لآخر، ولو كلفه الكثير من الخسائر في محيطه المجتمعي، وبنسب متفاوتة، ويراه قدراً لا يشعر الآخر بحتميته ودوافعه ومآلاته المتعددة.
وتذهب الأكاديمية الدكتورة نائلة القاضي إلى أن رسالة الأديب لا تقتصر على الكتابة في حد ذاتها، بل تصل لمسافات أوسع وأعمق من القلم والورق، يكمن جوهرها في التأمل ومصداقية الرأي والخيال الجامح، وترى بعض الالتزامات عائقاً لحركة الأديب الوجدانية والفكرية، تؤثر على التفكير النقدي والإبداعي وتقلّص مساحته، وترى أنّ الأيدولوجيا الاجتماعية تثقل كاهل المرأة الأديبة، فالمطلوب منها النجاح في أدوارها الاجتماعية؛ زوجةً وأماً وابنة، فتتحمل أعباء الأسرة ونفسها والتقاليد والمجتمع حولها، وهي حريصة على أن تظل وفية لقلمها الأدبي، وعالمها الجذاب، إلا أن الصراع اليومي بين الواجب والإبداع، يجعلها في ضيق، وكأنها في ميدان حرب تخوض المعارك يومياً، وتحاول فيها إعادة صفوها ومزاجها، مشيرةً إلى أن المرأة الأديبة تواجه رقابة مضاعفة من المجتمع، ومن ذاتها تُفرض عليها بسبب تربيتها أو نظرة الآخرين لها باعتبارها جريئة، وبالتالي: تُجبر على كبت قلمها. ولفتت القاضي إلى أن الكثير من الأديبات استطعن تحويل هذا الضيق إلى مصدر إلهام، وكتبن عن اللغة والأدب والشعر والمجتمع وغيرها من العلوم والمعارف بلغة تنبض بالقوة والتحدي، وأرجعت إلى نرجسية الأديب الإخلال ببعض الالتزامات، ويتجلى في تقديره المبالغ لذاته، وسعيه في إبهار الآخرين، وعدم تقبّله للنقد أو الفشل، واعتقاده بأنه مصدر أول للمعرفة، والثقة المبالغ فيها، والتعنت برأي واحد، ومزاجيه التعامل وتضخيم الأنا «أنا المصلح.. أنا المفكر.. أنا الناقد»، والترفع عن قراءة النتاج الأدبي للآخرين، ما ينتج عنه فقده علاقته بزملائه الأدباء، وتأثر سمعته، وعرقلة مشاريعه الأدبية، وعدم الثقة به، ولم تستبعد وقوع البعض في حالة من القلق والتوتر، ويترتب عليها تردد بين التمرد والالتزام وما هو ضروري لأجل نجاحه في مشروعه الأدبي والفني. وتعد القاضي الالتزام مسؤولية، مع القارئ الواعي الذي يود فتح حوارات ، ومع الكاتب المبتدئ أو المختلف معه في المدرسة العلمية أو الأدبية، ومع المجتمع، مع الحفاظ على قيمه وأخلاقه وأمانته الفكرية، مؤكدةً أن الالتزام والتمرد عجلة الأديب الناجح الذي يتمرد على الفكرة وليس على الإنسان، ثم يلتزم لتتهذب الفكرة، وتنتج أدباً عظيماً من أدباء عظماء.
رائدة العامري: تفكيك الالتزام وإشكالية السياق الثقافي
ترى الناقدة الدكتورة رائدة العامري، أن المثقف يتموضع في سياق المنظومة الثقافية، في موقع إشكالي بين صورة نمطية له، بوصفه مشاكساً لقيود التنظيم، وبين السعي إلى الانضباط داخل الحقل الثقافي، ضمن نسق إنتاجي، وبينهما بقدر ما تبدو الصورة سياقاً ظاهراً لسلوك المثقف، تتأسس مفارقة كبرى تُخفي خلفها إشكالية أعمق تتصل بطبيعة العلاقة البنيوية بين المثقف والزمن، بين لحظة فعل التفكير كتجربة وجودية عميقة، ومطلب الالتزام كشرط مؤسسي يُراد له أن يكون معياراً للاحتراف والجدية، لتغدو مساءلة مفهوم «الالتزام الثقافي» ضرورة نقدية لفهم طبيعة هذا الصراع البنيوي، وتحوّل الثقافة إلى منتج، يقاس بالأداء، أكثر مما يقدّر بالسؤال، وتؤكد أن المثقف الحقيقي لا يسكن الزمن بوصفه تقويماً إدارياً أو جدولاً إنتاجياً، بل يعيش الزمن باعتباره صراعاً بين زمن داخلي ينهض من القلق والحاجة إلى الفهم، وزمن خارجي يُدار وفق جداول وأطر للتقييم. وهنا تتجلّى المفارقة: فالمثقف لا يرفض الالتزام من حيث المبدأ، بل يرفض اختزاله إلى أداة ضبط، ما يُشبه «المراقبة» التي تنقل الفعل الثقافي من حقل الإبداع إلى حقل الإنتاج، مشيرةً إلى أن الكتابة تغدو فعلاً وجودياً يتولد من اضطرار داخلي لقلق الوعي، لا من متطلبات تعاقدية. فالمثقف في وعيه الأعمق، لا يكتب لأنه مكلَّف بكتابة نص، بل لأنّ ثمة سؤالاً يُلزمه من الداخل، فتتحول الكتابة إلى شكل من أشكال الوجود، لا إلى منتج ضمن دورة اقتصادية ثقافية، وفي هذا السياق، تطرح أدوات النقد الثقافي لإعادة قراءة «الالتزام» لا بوصفها آلية سلطوية ناعمة، بل بوصفها معياراً أخلاقياً ينبغي مساءلته.
وتذهب إلى أن النقد لا يبدو في الظاهر تمرداً عشوائياً على الالتزام، إنما هو تعبير مضمر عن مقاومة «الضبط الثقافي»، واحتجاج على اختزال التجربة الفكرية في مشروع قابل للتنفيذ، فالنقد الحقيقي لا ينبثق من البنيوية، بل من التفكيك، سعياً لزعزعة الانضباط ذاته. وهنا يبرز دور المثقف، لا في أداء دور مخطط له مسبقاً، بل في إعادة مساءلة الأدوار جميعها، بما فيها دوره الخاص، وذهبت إلى أننا أمام لحظة حرجة تتطلب إعادة تعريف جوهر الالتزام الثقافي، لا بوصفه استجابة لمتطلبات السوق، بل باعتباره فعلاً حرّاً ينبثق من الذات.
وأضافت العامري: السؤال لم يعد ثقافياً فحسب، بل وجودياً: من يملك الحق في تنظيم الزمن؟ ومن يملك الجرأة على استعادته؟ وهل ننتج نصوصاً ترضي بنية التلقي؟ أم نكتب لنعيد مساءلة هذه البِنْيَة ذاتها؟ وتؤكد أن المثقف يتحرك داخل مفارقة الذات بوصفها أُفقاً لأسئلة وجودية لا تستجيب للبرمجة الزمنية. ولعل هذا ما يجعل من الالتزام في صيغته السائدة، مظهراً لنسق خفيّ ودقيق يشتغل على الجسد واللغة والزمن، ليعيد إنتاج الذات المُفكّرة، باعتبارها ذاتاً منضبطة، لا ذاتاً حرة.
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علي الرباعي (الباحة) Al_ARobai@
It is sometimes difficult for some intellectuals to fulfill their commitments regarding meetings, dialogues, participation in seminars and evenings. While some see commitment as confusing and an invasion of privacy, others justify their cultural and creative absence by being busy, lacking time, feeling bored, or lacking enthusiasm. A few are distracted by a fluctuating mood or a sense of futility regarding any participation. Here, we pose the question of how keen the intellectual, writer, or creative individual is to commit to an activity or contribute to an event they are invited to, and what justifications exist for their reluctance to do so?
Critic Dr. Saghir Al-Anzi believes that the serious intellectual or researcher is specifically intellectually preoccupied with their research, topics, and significant and original ideas that are not presented in a straightforward manner. Instead, they are based on questions, deduction, contemplation, and a scattered search for coherence and gathering, a missing idea pursued, and another difficult idea they attempt to dismantle to reach a conclusion. Their mind resembles a factory that never stops working and producing. Al-Anzi confirms that this is accompanied by a great effort of contemplation and reading, chasing references, and picking up information from here and there. This forms a heavy burden on them, perhaps even a concern that keeps them awake at night. Any interruption in pursuing an idea causes it to stray without return, and any delay may cause the loss of a coherent idea. He pointed out that the researcher is in a continuous struggle between intellectual and material efforts (reading and tracking references), and being preoccupied makes them more anxious if they divert from their research because it cuts them off from it. They are also anxious about their research because they are in a conflict with ideas, and this struggle is exhausting, formidable, and a heavy burden on them, which makes them impatient with commitments, as their research and activities constitute a commitment heavier than any other obligation.
Poet Murayyah Al-Suwadi considered the relativity of correlation and the moodiness of commitment, stating: The writer is bound by their serious engagement with their personal project, and what affects their seriousness is their engagement with the surrounding environment. They are in a state of confusion and constant anxiety, continuously reproducing themselves from time to time, even if it costs them many losses in their social environment, to varying degrees. They see it as a fate that others do not feel its inevitability, motives, and multiple outcomes.
Academician Dr. Naela Al-Qadi argues that the writer's message is not limited to writing itself but extends to broader and deeper distances than pen and paper. Its essence lies in contemplation, the credibility of opinion, and wild imagination. She sees some commitments as obstacles to the emotional and intellectual movement of the writer, affecting critical and creative thinking and reducing its space. She believes that social ideology burdens the female writer, as she is expected to succeed in her social roles as a wife, mother, and daughter, bearing the burdens of family, herself, traditions, and the surrounding society. She is keen to remain loyal to her literary pen and her captivating world, yet the daily struggle between duty and creativity puts her in a tight spot, as if she is in a battlefield fighting daily battles, trying to restore her peace and mood. She points out that the female writer faces double scrutiny from society and from herself, imposed on her due to her upbringing or others' perceptions of her as bold, which forces her to suppress her pen. Al-Qadi noted that many female writers have managed to turn this pressure into a source of inspiration, writing about language, literature, poetry, society, and other sciences and knowledge in a language that pulses with strength and challenge. She attributed the narcissism of the writer to the disruption of some commitments, manifested in their exaggerated self-esteem, their pursuit of impressing others, their inability to accept criticism or failure, and their belief that they are the primary source of knowledge, along with excessive confidence, stubbornness in a single opinion, moodiness in dealing, and magnifying the ego—“I am the reformer... I am the thinker... I am the critic”—and their disdain for reading the literary output of others, resulting in a loss of connection with their fellow writers, affecting their reputation, hindering their literary projects, and leading to a lack of trust in them. She did not rule out that some may fall into a state of anxiety and tension, leading to hesitation between rebellion and commitment and what is necessary for their success in their literary and artistic project. Al-Qadi considers commitment a responsibility, with the conscious reader who wishes to open dialogues, with the novice writer or one who differs from them in scientific or literary school, and with society, while maintaining its values, ethics, and intellectual integrity. She emphasizes that commitment and rebellion are the wheels of the successful writer who rebels against the idea, not against the person, and then commits to refine the idea, producing great literature from great writers.
Raida Al-Amiri: Deconstructing Commitment and the Problem of Cultural Context
Critic Dr. Raida Al-Amiri sees that the intellectual positions themselves within the cultural system, in a problematic position between a stereotypical image of them as a challenger to organizational constraints and the pursuit of discipline within the cultural field, within a productive framework. Between them, as much as the image seems to be an apparent context for the behavior of the intellectual, a major paradox is established that conceals a deeper problem related to the nature of the structural relationship between the intellectual and time, between the moment of thinking as a profound existential experience and the demand for commitment as an institutional condition intended to be a standard for professionalism and seriousness. Thus, questioning the concept of “cultural commitment” becomes a critical necessity for understanding the nature of this structural conflict and the transformation of culture into a product, measured by performance more than it is valued by inquiry. She asserts that the true intellectual does not inhabit time as an administrative calendar or a production schedule, but lives time as a struggle between an internal time arising from anxiety and the need for understanding, and an external time managed according to schedules and frameworks for evaluation. Here, the paradox becomes clear: the intellectual does not reject commitment in principle, but rather rejects its reduction to a tool of control, akin to “surveillance” that shifts cultural action from the field of creativity to the field of production. She points out that writing becomes an existential act born from an internal compulsion of conscious anxiety, not from contractual requirements. For the intellectual, in their deeper awareness, does not write because they are tasked with writing a text, but because there is a question that compels them from within, transforming writing into a form of existence, not into a product within a cultural economic cycle. In this context, she proposes cultural criticism tools to reread “commitment” not as a soft authoritarian mechanism, but as an ethical standard that should be questioned.
She argues that criticism does not appear to be a random rebellion against commitment, but rather an implicit expression of resistance to “cultural control,” and a protest against reducing the intellectual experience to an executable project. True criticism does not emerge from structuralism, but from deconstruction, seeking to destabilize the very discipline. Here, the role of the intellectual emerges, not in performing a pre-planned role, but in re-questioning all roles, including their own. She suggests that we are facing a critical moment that requires redefining the essence of cultural commitment, not as a response to market demands, but as a free act emerging from the self.
Al-Amiri added: The question is no longer merely cultural, but existential: Who has the right to organize time? Who has the courage to reclaim it? Are we producing texts that satisfy the structure of reception? Or do we write to re-question this very structure? She emphasizes that the intellectual moves within the paradox of the self as a horizon for existential questions that do not respond to temporal programming. Perhaps this is what makes commitment in its prevailing form a manifestation of a hidden and intricate system that operates on the body, language, and time, to reproduce the thinking self as a disciplined self, not a free self.
Critic Dr. Saghir Al-Anzi believes that the serious intellectual or researcher is specifically intellectually preoccupied with their research, topics, and significant and original ideas that are not presented in a straightforward manner. Instead, they are based on questions, deduction, contemplation, and a scattered search for coherence and gathering, a missing idea pursued, and another difficult idea they attempt to dismantle to reach a conclusion. Their mind resembles a factory that never stops working and producing. Al-Anzi confirms that this is accompanied by a great effort of contemplation and reading, chasing references, and picking up information from here and there. This forms a heavy burden on them, perhaps even a concern that keeps them awake at night. Any interruption in pursuing an idea causes it to stray without return, and any delay may cause the loss of a coherent idea. He pointed out that the researcher is in a continuous struggle between intellectual and material efforts (reading and tracking references), and being preoccupied makes them more anxious if they divert from their research because it cuts them off from it. They are also anxious about their research because they are in a conflict with ideas, and this struggle is exhausting, formidable, and a heavy burden on them, which makes them impatient with commitments, as their research and activities constitute a commitment heavier than any other obligation.
Poet Murayyah Al-Suwadi considered the relativity of correlation and the moodiness of commitment, stating: The writer is bound by their serious engagement with their personal project, and what affects their seriousness is their engagement with the surrounding environment. They are in a state of confusion and constant anxiety, continuously reproducing themselves from time to time, even if it costs them many losses in their social environment, to varying degrees. They see it as a fate that others do not feel its inevitability, motives, and multiple outcomes.
Academician Dr. Naela Al-Qadi argues that the writer's message is not limited to writing itself but extends to broader and deeper distances than pen and paper. Its essence lies in contemplation, the credibility of opinion, and wild imagination. She sees some commitments as obstacles to the emotional and intellectual movement of the writer, affecting critical and creative thinking and reducing its space. She believes that social ideology burdens the female writer, as she is expected to succeed in her social roles as a wife, mother, and daughter, bearing the burdens of family, herself, traditions, and the surrounding society. She is keen to remain loyal to her literary pen and her captivating world, yet the daily struggle between duty and creativity puts her in a tight spot, as if she is in a battlefield fighting daily battles, trying to restore her peace and mood. She points out that the female writer faces double scrutiny from society and from herself, imposed on her due to her upbringing or others' perceptions of her as bold, which forces her to suppress her pen. Al-Qadi noted that many female writers have managed to turn this pressure into a source of inspiration, writing about language, literature, poetry, society, and other sciences and knowledge in a language that pulses with strength and challenge. She attributed the narcissism of the writer to the disruption of some commitments, manifested in their exaggerated self-esteem, their pursuit of impressing others, their inability to accept criticism or failure, and their belief that they are the primary source of knowledge, along with excessive confidence, stubbornness in a single opinion, moodiness in dealing, and magnifying the ego—“I am the reformer... I am the thinker... I am the critic”—and their disdain for reading the literary output of others, resulting in a loss of connection with their fellow writers, affecting their reputation, hindering their literary projects, and leading to a lack of trust in them. She did not rule out that some may fall into a state of anxiety and tension, leading to hesitation between rebellion and commitment and what is necessary for their success in their literary and artistic project. Al-Qadi considers commitment a responsibility, with the conscious reader who wishes to open dialogues, with the novice writer or one who differs from them in scientific or literary school, and with society, while maintaining its values, ethics, and intellectual integrity. She emphasizes that commitment and rebellion are the wheels of the successful writer who rebels against the idea, not against the person, and then commits to refine the idea, producing great literature from great writers.
Raida Al-Amiri: Deconstructing Commitment and the Problem of Cultural Context
Critic Dr. Raida Al-Amiri sees that the intellectual positions themselves within the cultural system, in a problematic position between a stereotypical image of them as a challenger to organizational constraints and the pursuit of discipline within the cultural field, within a productive framework. Between them, as much as the image seems to be an apparent context for the behavior of the intellectual, a major paradox is established that conceals a deeper problem related to the nature of the structural relationship between the intellectual and time, between the moment of thinking as a profound existential experience and the demand for commitment as an institutional condition intended to be a standard for professionalism and seriousness. Thus, questioning the concept of “cultural commitment” becomes a critical necessity for understanding the nature of this structural conflict and the transformation of culture into a product, measured by performance more than it is valued by inquiry. She asserts that the true intellectual does not inhabit time as an administrative calendar or a production schedule, but lives time as a struggle between an internal time arising from anxiety and the need for understanding, and an external time managed according to schedules and frameworks for evaluation. Here, the paradox becomes clear: the intellectual does not reject commitment in principle, but rather rejects its reduction to a tool of control, akin to “surveillance” that shifts cultural action from the field of creativity to the field of production. She points out that writing becomes an existential act born from an internal compulsion of conscious anxiety, not from contractual requirements. For the intellectual, in their deeper awareness, does not write because they are tasked with writing a text, but because there is a question that compels them from within, transforming writing into a form of existence, not into a product within a cultural economic cycle. In this context, she proposes cultural criticism tools to reread “commitment” not as a soft authoritarian mechanism, but as an ethical standard that should be questioned.
She argues that criticism does not appear to be a random rebellion against commitment, but rather an implicit expression of resistance to “cultural control,” and a protest against reducing the intellectual experience to an executable project. True criticism does not emerge from structuralism, but from deconstruction, seeking to destabilize the very discipline. Here, the role of the intellectual emerges, not in performing a pre-planned role, but in re-questioning all roles, including their own. She suggests that we are facing a critical moment that requires redefining the essence of cultural commitment, not as a response to market demands, but as a free act emerging from the self.
Al-Amiri added: The question is no longer merely cultural, but existential: Who has the right to organize time? Who has the courage to reclaim it? Are we producing texts that satisfy the structure of reception? Or do we write to re-question this very structure? She emphasizes that the intellectual moves within the paradox of the self as a horizon for existential questions that do not respond to temporal programming. Perhaps this is what makes commitment in its prevailing form a manifestation of a hidden and intricate system that operates on the body, language, and time, to reproduce the thinking self as a disciplined self, not a free self.