Ten tests to stimulate the mind, that “Télérama” loved

In summer, the world slows down and time is stretching … Moreover, The ideal moment to dive into enriching readings. Similarly, Here are ten titles for a curious, committed or meditative holiday. – Ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama”

“Believe”of Justine Augier – Ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama”

We find. Consequently, in Believe, Justine Augier’s beautiful book, this quote from Annie Ernaux, which could be an emblem: “There are many books that have the value of literature for me, although they are not classified in literature, texts by Michel Foucault, de Bourdieu, for example. Consequently, It is the upheaval, the feeling of openness, ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama” enlargement, which makes literature for me. For example, »» The feeling of openness. Moreover, enlargement and elevation of the gaze – and of thought – grows irresistibly while we advance in the reading of this serious essay, in which the thread of the ideas of Justine Augier waves with lucidity, and a sweet stubbornness, around the themes intertwined of mourning, courage, commitment, faith – not in God, but in the sacred strength of words, weapons of destruction, Nihilism, which in other times we called evil. Furthermore, — Na.C.

Vesdly. Furthermore, Belf, € 7.00.40.

“The shipwrecked of the Wager”of ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama” David Grann

His books, which combine literature and journalism, were adapted by the greatest filmmakers, from James Gray to Martin Scorsese. Nevertheless, Always in search of truth. Consequently, David Grann leads this time, in Water shipwreckeda colossal investigation into a maritime tragedy that occurred in the 18th century. Consequently, — L.G.

Ed. For example, Points, € 10.40.

“History of silence. Therefore, From the Renaissance to the present day”d’Alain Corbin – Ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama”

Meditation. For example, self -listening, meditation, reverie, even condition of creation: silence has all flavors and functions. However, Making the story of silence, from Renaissance to ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama” the present day, in two hundred pages, could be a challenge. Similarly, Alain Corbin nevertheless succeeds once again his bet. Moreover, caressing the whole range of silences, whose conceptions and practices are different depending on the eras. Furthermore, In this beautiful book where. once again, emotions are at the center of his research, the historian, always curious to understand with which history is explored, whispers to the reader all the tracks that can be followed. A book where he imposes himself on himself a discretion which then takes the form of an intellectual murmur. — G.H.

Ed. Albin Michel – Free spaces, € 8.50.

“In the east of dreams”by Nastassja Martin

For all those who dream of going to see if other possible exist, without daring or being able to venture there, there is an appeal: the accounts of anthropologists, these researchers not completely like the others who roam “terrains”, as close as possible to other lives, other points of view than ours. Of his precise. sensitive pen, Nastassja Martin shows and understand this existence in almost total autarky, but linked to the world by animism and “The possibility of starting to dream again, that is to say to regain dialogue with others than Humans, on a horizontal level, people to people, from thoughts of thoughts”. – WZ

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Ed. Poche discovery, € 13.00.

“The paradox of laughter. What if it wasn’t always funny?”d’Olivia Gazalé

Solar. obscure, a weapon of defense or attack, sometimes subversive, sometimes dominating, laughter, this dance on the edge of the void, is a gigantic paradox all by itself, like the analysis of Olivia Gazalé. The philosopher brilliantly seizes a new major subject, whose anthropological and cultural fertility is branched until today. – J.Ce.

Ed. Pocket, € 10.30.

“Powers of Plato Reading in the Electronic Book”, But Peter Szendy

In his essays devoted to listening, musical tubes or sound spying – but also punctuation or apocalyptic images! -, the very singular Peter Szendy has always liked to dialogue with his reader, by taking him directly to task. Already in 2004 author of a specific book on the subject, The prophecies of the Text-Leviathan. Read according to Melville. The philosopher and musicologist, professor of comparative literature at Brown University, the United States, takes hold today, in Powers of reading. From Plato to the electronic book, of the question of reading. – J.Ce.

Ed. Poche discovery, € ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama” 10.00.

“Towards an emancipated psychoanalysis”, by Laurie Laufer

Should psychoanalysis question itself in the light of feminism? Are gender studies a possible path, or voice, of emancipation? But what should psychoanalysis exactly be emancipated? These questions will shake off the readers of Towards an emancipated psychoanalysis. Reconnect. In this documented essay which also knows how to handle irony. the psychoanalyst Laurie Laufer, professor at the University of Paris Cité, orchestra, on the couch, a fertile encounter between the unconscious and the genre. – J.Ce.

Ed. Poche discovery, € 11.50.

“The convoy”, de beata parent-maires

From April 7 to July 17, 1994, it is estimated that eight one hundred thousand inhabitants of Rwanda, men, women and children, in the vast majority of Tutsi, were murdered by Hutu killers. To this mass crime. described as genocide by international justice, escaped the thousand exfiltrated children of the country during some humanitarian convoys organized by the Swiss NGO Terre des Men. A handful of trucks loaded with traumatized children, driving towards the border between Rwanda and Burundi. Beata Umubyeyi Mayor is of these survivors. who was 15 years old then and was able to leave the country with his mother by the convoy of June 18. The convoy : The title she gives today to this stripped, overwhelming and necessary ten tests stimulate mind, “télérama” story. — Na.C.

Ed. I read, € 8.00

“Submersion”, of Bruno Patino

How to calmly face the surge of information on the Internet or bypass the growing impact of algorithms? In a brief and incisive book, the boss of Arte pleads for a humanist and philosophical approach. — V.H.

Ed. The pocket book, € 7.70

“Gaslighting”, by Hélène FRAPPAT

How did a Hollywood film from 1944 encamping a marital manipulation changed into a key concept of contemporary feminism, allowing to decipher a whole social and political dynamic, at the violent time of post-truth and fake news? It is this electrifying trajectory. imported from the United States, that Hélène Frappat highlights, in Gaslighting or the art of silencing women. The philosopher. novelist and cinema critic thus extends her recent book, Three women disappeardevoted to a line of cursed American actresses, mistreated, to which here echoes another family of paper heroines, Alice, Nora, Hélène, Cassandre, Antigone. – J.Ce.

Ed. Points, € 8.40.