Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
Label: politically correct
In light of the values
Authority has lost its prestige along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, tyranny...
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...
Charlie's Destiny
"The enemy limits you, therefore shapes you and establishes you." This quote from Saint-Exupéry aptly expresses our condition at the end of this first week of...
In the heart of darkness, life
After seeing "Tree of Life," I for a long time forbade myself from writing about the film. Two forces clashed within me. Captivated by the poetry, by the state...
What does Steve Jobs stand for?
"Steve Jobs 1955-2011," read the Apple website on October 5, 2011. Right to the end, this unique, minimalist, elegant, and effective signature. His...
Another year comes to an end…
As the year draws to a close, we often only glance at it briefly. We shouldn't dwell on it too much. We never know how many things we've forced ourselves to bury...
Newman and Socrates
The links between ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity are numerous. The most famous of the Greek precepts: Gnothi Seauton, "Know thyself,"...
Original fault
Despite Shûsaku Endo's doubts about the true Christianity of the Japanese, as expressed in the admirable "Silence," it also seems to me that Japona...
Emmanuel Todd or intellectual vulgarity
Emmanuel Todd was on France Culture the other morning to deliver his gospel. Emmanuel Todd is a prophet. He has the eloquence. He has the...
The secular and modern world
There's the beautiful Italian word "vergogna," and there's the French word, emptied of its meaning in modern times, "shame." Who hasn't found themselves in the middle of...