Media

The culture of debate and cultural debate, again and again

By Jonas Follonier · 13 October 2023

On the occasion of this 100th issue, let's celebrate pluralism, and its corollaries, tolerance and freedom of expression. When «Regard Libre» was created, we could never have imagined the extent to which these watchwords of our magazine would need to be defended.

Philosophy

Animal rights: towards anti-humanism

By Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard · 16 April 2022

Le Regard Libre N° 84 – Antoine Bernhard Dossier «L’homme et l’animal» C’est une revendication qui fait florès aujourd’hui: il faudrait...

Society

Non-specialists have interesting things to tell us

By Jonas Follonier · July 30, 2021

Editorial by Jonas Follonier

World

Covid-19, positive

By Robin Parisi · 02 July 2020

Le Regard Libre N° 63 - Robin Parisi Dossier «Covid-19 and globalization» In Switzerland, as in most Western democracies, the...

Switzerland

«Dominique de Buman, a Swiss»

By Jérémie Bongiovanni · 01 June 2019

The history of the Catholic Church's positions on the new social suffering caused by industrialization is fascinating.

Philosophy

Intellectuals, we're going to have a blast!

By Giovanni Ryffel · 07 April 2019

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?

Films

«Styx»: a human parable

By Alexandre Wälti · November 14, 2018

Les mercredis du cinéma - Alexandre Wälti The name of a gateway to the underworld in Greek mythology...

World

At the European Council, illusionists are king

By Diego Taboada · 02 July 2018

Les lundis de l’actualité – Diego Taboada Cette semaine, les chefs d’Etat et gouvernement des pays membres de l’Union européenne ont...

Philosophy

«Existentialism is a humanism»: a vision of freedom

By Loris S. Musumeci · 04 November 2017

Jean-Paul Sartre's L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism) is an account of a philosophy that left its mark on twentieth-century thought: existentialism...