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.
Michel Siggen, qui ne jure que par Aristote et saint Thomas, a enrichi son cours dans un lycée valaisan d'une brochure explicative sur l'essai La philosophie devenue folle de Jean-François Braunstein. Un ouvrage qui expliquerait «la crise anthropologique actuelle».
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 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.
On Wednesday May 22, Jonas Follonier, editor-in-chief of this magazine, shared on social networks a photo of the men's toilet door at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Neuchâtel. On the door was a small poster masking the male logo and stating that «the toilets had been made gender-free because the male-female sigils displayed on the toilets oppress a section of the university population». The action was instigated by the «UniNE collective for the women's* and feminist strike», which is «calling for a boycott of these stereotyped, medieval codes».
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?
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Giovanni F. Ryffel | Le monde des scientifiques et celui des humanistes: deux mondes séparés? Les premiers ignorent souvent d’être des intellectuels malgré eux, comme le disait Sartre, tandis que les seconds sont facilement réduits à la seule catégorie de «littéraires», comme si les autres disciplines n’existaient guère. Mais comment en est-on arrivé là? Cette distinction est-elle la seule possible?
Le Regard Libre N° 47 – Giovanni F. Ryffel Parmi les grandes thématiques qui ont animé l’histoire de la philosophie, la...
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