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...
Becoming oneself…
Isn't becoming oneself always about becoming someone else? What can become of someone who doesn't journey toward their true self? One must constantly fill the void...
The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make us believe that we can choose everything all the time, the modern era has methodically replaced being with having. Yet this logic...
In light of the values
Authority has lost its prestige along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, tyranny...
Unamuno on his Quixotic quest
My work – I was about to say my mission – is to shatter the faith of some, and even of a third party: faith in the...
Unamuno on Don Quixote
I feel I have a medieval soul and I have the idea that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by necessity, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation,...
Postscript (by Georges Mathieu)
If "France's misfortunes are exemplary," it will take us thirty years to recover from the last one: that of the laxity of the right combined with sectarianism...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny. Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as much by his roots as by his fruit. Man, like the tree...
News from Ernest Hello on fear and its perfections
Fear in general, therefore, possesses perfections that evil lacks. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt in a more terrible way in the Garden of Olives...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — “My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I've taken care of everything. I used the same funeral home for…”.
News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, while rereading the notes I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let's not veil our figures...
News about Hyppolite Taine
He's a pedant; a pedant is someone with a hollow, puffed-up mind who, because he's full of words, thinks he's full of ideas, revels in his own phrases, and deceives himself...
News from Nicolàs Gómez Dàvila
Let us call a totalitarian state the one that results from the attempt to replace social integration, destroyed by the liberal and democratic mentality, with a...