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MAINTENANCE. In “Le Sacre des pantoufles”, the philosopher warns against “sedentary tyranny”, that of withdrawal and renunciation of the “outside”.
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“Tut the misfortune of men is not knowing how to remain at rest in their room., wrote Pascal. Another Pascal, named Bruckner, answers him: “All the misfortune of men in the years to come will perhaps be not wanting to leave their room. » The characteristic of an essayist is to smell his time, to identify its heavy tendencies, to be the seismograph of our tectonic plates and their frictions. He isolates, cuts out, releases, underlines, exaggerates, alerts, outlines perspectives. After a personal step aside on his taste for effort and elevation practiced on the edges (In the friendship of a mountain), here is its collective complement, Le Sacre des pantoufles. After the vertical of the walls, the horizontal of the sofa. After the capital ways, the tiny lives. HAS…
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How to learn (or relearn) to see life in pink? How to rediscover the pleasure of enjoying the moment? How not to forbid it? Often, we forbid ourselves to live today to better hope for a hypothetical tomorrow… Hence the interest of reading the authors presented in this special issue.
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