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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined by his roots as well as by his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and internal elements to reach maturity. Man resembles this trunk sculpted by trials leaning on its roots and bearing fruits more or less Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — "My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I took care of everything. I used the same funeral directors for our two brothers. I couldn't choose, and since our brothers didn't leave any last wishes, I took matters into my own hands to Continue reading
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News from Hyppolite Taine
He is a pedant, the pedant is the hollow and inflated mind which because it is full of words believes itself to be full of ideas, enjoys its sentences and deceives itself to rule others. He is a hypocrite who believes himself to be sincere, a Cain who takes himself for Abel. In this shrinking brain, given over to abstraction, and Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity sets in in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody action or reaction? What moves Antigone? Reaction never exists by itself, whereas action needs no one; it legitimizes itself in the act. Action always inaugurates something. Unlike what is often Continue reading
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Simone de Beauvoir on human life
"To declare that life is absurd is to say that it will never have meaning. To say that it is ambiguous is to decide that its meaning is never fixed, that it must always be earned."* A formidable declaration of powerlessness draped in an expression of the will to power, or how envy must rule, govern life. This sentence is Continue reading
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The death of intimacy
Everywhere, on the Internet, in newspapers, or on television, personal experience is displayed, exhibited, and intended as a reference. This indecency is based on an inversion of values. It is founded above all and everywhere on the idea of the same. The idea of the same thinks: "I lived this, my experience reflects a universal feeling. I want to say what Continue reading
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A short history of Envy, from hero to scapegoat
The modern world is constantly presenting us with scapegoats. Lance Armstrong, Richard Millet, Jérôme Kerviel, John Galliano, to name but a few, each in their own field, with completely different causes and reasons, have recently embodied the scapegoat, the rightly punished culprit, the troublemaker put in his place. Continue reading
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Notes on History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's History of Catholicism (chapter 9: The Shock of Modernity (mid-18th century — 1870). p. 394. The ritual of touching the scrofula at the end of the coronation, still practiced, is losing its credibility. Symptomatically, the formula of imposition, the formula of laying on of hands is changing. It was "the king Continue reading
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Notes on the French Revolution
Most of the quotes about the French Revolution given in this article come from the book "Historically Correct" by Jean Sévillia. — Solzhenitsyn: "Since men are not endowed with the same capacities, if they are free, they will not be equal, and if they are equal, it is because they are not free." — There is a revolutionary idea Continue reading
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Oshio Heihachiro, rebellion samurai
To fully understand Oshio Heihachiro's actions, it is important to understand that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will. Nothing in Oshio Heihachiro's attitude is intended to challenge the established order. Oshio Heihachiro knows the system is perfectible, but also functional. What makes the system less efficient has more to do with the people than with the Continue reading