Musical improvisation is a beautiful metaphor for free expression: an art of addressing others, seeking clarity and weaving a fragile harmony, where each voice is prepared but daring.
Philosophie
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As a result of human activity, certain natural areas are under increasing pressure. Should people be denied access to them altogether? Two Regard Libre editors debate the issue.
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His reporting and exile took him to the four corners of Europe to document the upheavals of his time. Today, Seville's Manuel Chaves Nogales has re-emerged as the best Spanish journalist of the 20th century.
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Maria Zambrano's thinking has rarely been exported outside her native Spain. Long exiled, notably in Switzerland, the author left behind a singular body of work, halfway between philosophy and poetry.
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In his essay on laughter, published by Editions de l'Observatoire, the former director of «Charlie Hebdo» and France Inter explores what this human art tells us about the value of astonishment. For further reading.
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José Ortega y Gasset rarely figures among the most quoted and studied philosophers. Yet his political, social and moral diagnoses are still relevant today. Portrait of a major thinker of the 20th century.
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Immersed in the Grisons, our editor discovered the environment in which Nietzsche forged the essence of his thought during the summers of 1881 to 1888. In these wild landscapes, the mountains appear to be the crucible of an inner revolution.
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A subtle tradition dating back to the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular to David Hume, one of its leading exponents, makes the aesthetic evaluation of a thing a personal feeling, but one caused by properties actually possessed by that thing.
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The limits of free speech, its expression through caricature and the challenges posed by wokism to this fundamental right. These themes were at the heart of the 2025 edition of this annual meeting, co-organized by Le Regard Libre, which took place on Saturday.
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Is beauty in things or in our minds? According to British philosopher Roger Scruton, neither option is satisfactory. By pointing out the paradoxical nature of aesthetic judgments, he attempts to overcome the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism.






