Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "A choice must be made; either the people of 1789 were right and the entire ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is the...".
Category: Modern World
Antigone, defiant and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone was born with the dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes "anti," which means facing, not con...
Bismarck against France and Catholicism
Bismarck wrote to Count Arnim on November 11, 1871: "We must desire the maintenance of the republic in France for one last, major reason. L...".
Transforming the idea into a feeling
Max Jacob to a student: Meditation is not about having ideas, on the contrary! It consists of having one, transforming it into a feeling, into a conviction...
The funeral
Funerals serve to point, with diabolical precision, a dart that bursts the abscess of grief, allowing it to flow out gently and smoothly...
The meaning… of funerals
The contemporary world is abuzz with the phrase "to make sense," a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression. It is...
The sentence
The pain resembles the languid, yet persistent, ebb and flow of the tide against the hieratic rock that serves as its scapegoat. It overwhelms him...
Beloved freedom!
Antigone is free, and since freedom is constantly being won, it would be accurate to say that Antigone is liberating herself, because one never stops being liberated, and learning...
The permanent conversion
Contrary to what is often said or believed, tradition requires ongoing conversion. Tradition is not a sinecure, a life lived in the past...
The call of destiny, the forgetting of vocation
To deny the origin, it is possible to claim that the existence of the past events cannot be proven, or better yet, that it was an accident, an accident...
From meaning to nonsense
The contemporary world is excited by the phrase "to make sense," a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression. It is so comforting to...
Like robots facing death
There's no need to be afraid of these robots from Asia that seem ready to take our place, because the robot is within us and it's watching us; it's watching for that...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
So many stories about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time is based on...
Relativism is the horse trader!
Relativism proves to be a gentle companion. Relativism is like Father Donissan's horse dealer. One can travel in his company. He is never boring, he...