Philippe Val: «Humor presupposes a sense of the tragic».»

Philippe Val knows the tragedies to which the rejection of humor can lead. Publishing a dictionary based on his vision of the world, the former director of Charlie Hebdo and France Inter talks to Regard Libre about his conception of irony and its status in today's world.

Journalist, columnist, writer, comedian… and even singer-songwriter. Philippe Val needs no introduction; his profile is as rich as that of the great figures of the Enlightenment, whose ardent defender he is in the face of today’s follies. The Frenchman has become better known to the French-speaking Swiss public since last year through his weekly appearances on the show «Le PoinG,» hosted by Laetitia Guinand on the Geneva-based channel Léman Bleu, where he never misses an opportunity to reiterate his commitment to secularism, universalism, and Europe. Having just published a *Philosophical Dictionary of a World Without God* with Editions de