9 books that the editorial staff of “Philosophy Magazine” advises you to take on vacation

You make your luggage and you don’t know what to take to read this summer? Nine journalists from Philosophy Magazine Give you their advice: between the classics of philosophy. In addition, inspired poetry and contemporary novels that make you think, here are nine tips – subjective – to help you spend the best possible vacation.

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“The laughter of the Medusa. Similarly, other Ironies” (Galileo, 1975), by Hélène Cixous – 9 books editorial staff “philosophy

Beware of this reading, you may finish stung! Meanwhile, But the kind of bite that will wake you up from the Patriarchate poison. Meanwhile, even if your summer brain would only be connected to the surf and the marine weather. For 9 books editorial staff “philosophy example, WhenHélène Cixouswriter. Meanwhile, academic and French literary critic, summons the mythological figure of Medusa, it is to encourage women to find their form of own expression: to write, sing or howl, story that no one can pretend not to hear. Consequently, Language and body are a weapon – even in a bikini.

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Victorine de Oliveira

“La Maison des Marées” (Albin Michel. Nevertheless, 2005), by Kenneth White – 9 books editorial staff “philosophy

Like many of you, I will hit the road for Brittany this summer. In my suitcase, I will take Kenneth White. However, Nomadic writer of Scottish origin. For example, poet and essayist influenced by Nietzsche, Heidegger or Deleuzehe is the creator of the “Geopoetics”who hears “Densify in human beings his presence in the world”. In addition, In 1983, captivated by Brittany, he put his suitcases there. For example, The tide house tells his installation. Nevertheless, his wandering through the 9 books editorial staff “philosophy Armorican country, his meetings with the sailors and ghosts that haunt “The deserted places, the elemental conditions and the raw stone”. Moreover, In a simple prose celebrating the beauty of everyday life. Similarly, Kenneth White gives the hear “Pure music of the landscape that does not announce anything”.

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Octave Larmagnac-Matheron

“Consolation of philosophy” (v. Furthermore, 524, Payot-Rivages, 2020), de Boèce – 9 books editorial staff “philosophy

We are in 524 AD, in Pavia, Italy. Nevertheless, Boece Croupit in a prison. Consequently, Accused of conspiracy by the new Master of Italy. Meanwhile, the Ostrogoth Théodoric, this literate end passed by politics revives pagan philosophy. Between two torture sessions. he imagines a dialogue with philosophy, which he personifies: “It was difficult to assess your size; Sometimes she was reduced to the usual human measurements, sometimes she gave the impression of bumping her head against the sky. »» Through their imaginary discussions. Boèce tries 9 books editorial staff “philosophy to console herself with her fate by exploring the fields of knowledge and morality – all, from memory! A lesson in courage which illustrates with lyricism the power of thought in the face of political arbitrariness.

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Alexandre Jadin

“Adventure. boredom, seriousness” (Flammarion, 1963), by Vladimir Jankélévitch

There are books, like this one, which give relief and a new flavor to existence. Great creator of moral characters. Jankélévitch takes us to discover “The adventurer”, this reckless who “Burn to do what he dread the most”. With his generous pen. the author covers the adventures that can be crossed during a lifetime: de “Mortal adventure”which sometimes ends up tragedy, “The love adventure” People who get lost in the meanders of passion. Passing the big chills of the risk, the philosopher surveyed the dry and hostile land of “Boredom” one you ” serious “. We close the galvanized. charmed 9 books editorial staff “philosophy book, with the impression of having hit the great moments of life, between joy and melancholy.

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Clara Degiovanni

“The perfection inherent in life” (Ensba. 2013), by Agnes Martin

It is a little book that I have been offered and that I have wanted to offer everyone since. The Canadian-American painter Agnes Martinwhose abstract canvases decorated with fragile patterns. lines recall the schoolchildren’s notebooks, take the pen to celebrate Perfection inherent in life. This collection of aphorisms. conferences, written as prose poems, mixes reflections on aesthetics, praise of the ” potential “ of each and awards on the “Sublimity” of life. If the absolute is “Out of our reach”do not deprive ourselves of looking for it: “Then I drew all. these rectangles / all people were like these rectangles / They are exactly like the grass / It is the path of freedom. »» We breathe.

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Ariane Nicolas

“What I don’t want to know” (editions du Sousqué. 2013), by Deborah Levy

This autobiographical novel begins like other works by Deborah Levy, and especially The cost of living (2018, Trad. Fr. 2020) : We discover a woman in her fifty years. shaken by a divorce, funny, independent, cultivated, creative, of an overflowing energy in laughter as in tears. And then, something that was not planned. She talks about her childhood years in South Africa. and the long disappearance of her father, an anti-apartheid activist sent to the dungeon. From there. the British author, also playwright and poet, deepens her reflection extraordinary and answers the question of George Orwell : “Why do I write?” »»

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Alexandre Lacroix

“The Eye. the Spirit” (Gallimard, 1964), by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

This is the last published text during the lifetime of the French philosopher, Died a 9 books editorial staff “philosophy few months later, at 55, cardiac arrest. Installed for summer in Tholonet. next to Aix-en-Provence, in the house of a painter and in the memory of Cézannehe resumes at the root, from the reflection of the leaves of a tree in a piece of water, his tireless question on what is to see, feel and live in a landscape. And it is as if we were there. by his side, to feel and to meditate, on this “Sparkle” of the feeling and the sensitive that lights up as soon as a body arises, “Until such a body accident deletes what no accident would have been enough to do”.

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Martin Legros

“On the puppet theater”, Heinrich von Kleist (1810, wake, 2010)

You walk alone on the beach. Your movements are fluid, your approach swaying, your features relaxed. A group of holidaymakers, some of which are 9 books editorial staff “philosophy looking at you. Suddenly, your members stiffen. Your steps are less assured. What happened? You have lost the grace, would say Heinrich von Kleist. In his test On the puppet theaterthe German playwright wonders what the charm of the naturalness is due to. and how man can reconnect with beauty once human beings driven out of the Garden of Eden. A short and bright test, to read naked in the sun!

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Anne-Sophie Moreau

“Philosophy lessons in six hours. quarters” (1969, Payot-Rivages, 1996), by Witold Gombrowicz

A history of modern thought in accelerated, This is what the brilliant Polish writer offers Witold Gombrowicz. This enthusiast of philosophy realized. a few months before his death, that giving lessons to his loved ones was his only cure for pain. Of Kant to existentialism. passing by Marx or Heideggerit shows that for three centuries, we have reduced the 9 books editorial staff “philosophy power of thought and exalt that of life. It’s going fast. therefore, but that does not prevent the facetious Gombrowicz from explaining the thought of Hegel by comparing it to the visit of a cathedral, or to castigate moralism of Sartre. To devour without time.

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Michel Eltchaninoff

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