Le Regard Libre N°114 | Dossier BEAUTY

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Le Regard Libre N°114 | «Does beauty have a face?»
Paper copy
March 2025 edition
Chic paper magazine format

Opinions and reflections
05 Editorial by Jonas Follonier: Neither reason without debate nor debate without reason
07 Ralph Müller's cartridge: The alliance of order and courage
08 Marianne Grosjean's message: March 8, two injustices, still no solution
09 Pascal Couchepin's reading: Mesopotamia, a region victimized by history
10 Paul Widmer: «Freedom is Switzerland's raison d'être».»

Dossier: Bringing beauty back to life
16 Roger Scruton's paradox of beauty
17 In search of an objective and universal beauty
18 The authoritarian temptation to abolish aesthetic canons
20 Florian Eglin, dandyism as the art of refining violence
22 Image generators take on the challenge of ugliness

Cultural news
30 Winter Palace, the good taste of luxury
32 The Western, the endless session of American psychoanalysis
34 Six walks to discover Albert Cohen's Geneva
36 Fiction: true mythomania or false paranoia?

End of magazine events
38 Disagreement: Should Switzerland move closer to NATO?
39 Trial of the month: Against the culture of clash by Antoine Vuille
40 Switzerland in 10 episodes: The Lake Geneva region at the heart of the «Republic of Letters».»
43 Theodor Wildt's development notebooks (7/10)
44 Bernard Léchot's photo essay: 1055, Via Tuscolana
50 In brief: Images of the month, a short story and a ChatGPT joke