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The indecent confinement of our elders
Old age and confinement: a crisis of humanity?
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Author: Giovanni Ryffel
GIOVANNI RYFFEL
«Pinocchio»: the beauty of an entry into repetition
Le Regard Libre N° 65 - Giovanni F. Ryffel (letters to the editor) Matteo Garrone's film Pinocchio is about...
What poetry does
Modern poetry. Incomprehensible? What if a one-thousand-and-five-hundred-year-old author gave us the opportunity to receive the gifts extended by Baudelaire or Bonnefoy? Here are some thoughts on the meaning of the poetic word, based on Augustine of Hippo.
The false narratives of progressivism and nationalism
Enthusiasm: will you be nothing more than a wave of stupid emotions? Will you no longer kindle the fire of intelligence to spur us on to the discovery of our destiny? Modernity is over, and with it the great visions of the world it proposed. So what's left?
The other and his difference
Are we sure we want this fabulous encounter with the other «as other»? We have to admit that we are often committed to this notion of otherness. The aim is positive: to promote fraternity and non-violence. Yet the notion of otherness is far from easy. Before we get into a political discussion with broken chairs on our backs, let's see if we can't highlight a few paradoxes which, we hope, will be the occasion for more careful reflection.
The frustration machine
The individualism that has worried sociologists for some decades now is merely the collective reflection of a highly targeted strategy. Not that advertisers do this in bad faith. Quite simply: it works.
What lies behind a city's wrinkles?
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE | Beauty is promised by tourist agencies as a balm to soothe the neuroses of a life of frenetic offices, fast food and stress. Vacations, then, are the only bright spot in contemporary life: they're almost the exiguous drop in the bucket that the rich man in hell demands. But does the entertainment promised when we visit Porto, Split or Venice allow us to truly taste the beauty we're hoping for? And if we quench our thirst with this water, what will we leave to those who grew up near this source?
Philosophy? One, undisciplined, without art or share
In the age of the triumph of technology, we love specialization. Happiness can almost be equated with being the only expert in a discipline, even if it's the Rubik's Cube. In this context, philosophy seems to be at a loss: the discipline that used to teach how to ask questions about all other disciplines, is it now nothing more than a vague discourse on a little bit of everything and, ultimately, a little bit of nothing? Should it then betray its original vocation and become just another specialized discipline, as is already the case in many universities?
Intellectuals, we're going to have a blast!
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Giovanni F. Ryffel | The worlds of scientists and humanists: two separate worlds? The former often ignore the fact that they are intellectuals in spite of themselves, as Sartre said, while the latter are easily reduced to the category of «literary», as if other disciplines hardly existed. But how did we get here? Is this the only possible distinction?
What nobility still teaches us
Le Regard Libre N° 47 - Giovanni F. Ryffel Among the great themes that have animated the history of philosophy, the...
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