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By : Christian Jambet - Monday, 16 April 2012 00:00 |
Louis Massignon (1883-1962) and Henry Corbin (1903 -1978) : two great figures of the history of ideas which followed each other, loved each other... and sometimes opposed to one another. When France was sinking in a colonialist, materialist and secular wheeling and dealing and then (is it a consequence of that ?) faced two world wars and a national war (Algeria)... who are the French of that time who were really fascinated - sometimes risking their lives - for spirituality "of the other" : Islam ?
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Philosophy >
Primordial tradition
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By : Michel Cazenave - Monday, 09 April 2012 00:00 |
In Western countries, philosophy and theology seem to interlace like the two snakes of the caduceus of Hermes. But beyond this exterior (and masculine) consequence: what is the kind of its central hub, that thin olive tree staff? Is it what Russian orthodoxes call Sophia ? Central figure of Christianism, philosophy and then psychology, Sophia represents inner femininity of God. If for more than twenty centuries, philosophers and theologists (almost exclusively men) evoked it in Marian, virginal or without Eros words.
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Théâtre
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By : Marco Baschera - Monday, 19 March 2012 23:00 |
Was the death of Molière, on stage, while performing the The Imaginary Invalid a fatal synchronicity linked to Chronos, the God of time ? Marco Baschera, philosopher, has been haunted for several years by the expression: "Death to death". Striking sentence which appeared in two plays of the playwright Valère Novarina : L’Origine Rouge (The Red Origin in 2000) and l’Acte Inconnu (The Unknown Action in 2007). The Ariadne's thread of the thoughts of Marco Baschera is about the links between theoretical thoughts and theater.
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Friday, 04 June 2010 - Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée was born in 1949 in Paris.After qualifying for university entrance (1966), Literature in Paris, license and master in Classics and in Philosophy (Paris Nanterre), Master in Chinese (Paris Jussieu).From 1970, she studies at the Institut Ricci with P.Claude Larre sj (2001).
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Friday, 24 September 2010 - Georges Banu
Georges Banu, born in 1943 in Romania, is a French writer and theater man from Romanian origin. He arrived in France in 1973, he is professor at the University Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3 and is also critic and author of many essays about theater.He is the author of Théâtre sortie de secours (Aubier, 1984, prix de la critique dramatique), L'Acteur qui ne revient pas (Aubier, 1986, Folio 1993), N Lire la suite... |
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Friday, 18 December 2009 - Jean Clergue-Vila
Dans le quatrième volet de l'exploration du Retable d'Issenheim, Jean Clergue-Vila aborde le panneau de la "Nativité" - représentation prolongeant celle d'une "Divine Conception" de nature alchimique. La Vierge à l'Enfant devient ici l'archétype de la mère médiatrice du divin, celle que rencontrent les adeptes, les grands Voyageurs, en qu&eci Voir la vidéo... |
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Friday, 05 June 2009 - Pierre Bonnasse
Si l'on compare les religions véridiques sous leurs aspects inférieurs de coutumes, de théologies spéculatives, de croyances populaires, on ne voit que des différences, et, en ce sens, toutes les tentatives de syncrétisme (...) sont naïves et erronées. Mais si l'on considère la pensée réelle, la pensée pratique (... Voir la vidéo... |
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Sunday, 14 December 2008 - Alain Daniélou
Alain Daniélou (1907-1994), alias Shiva Sharan (le protégé de Shiva), est un musicologue et un indianiste réputé.Initié au piano et au chant dans sa jeunesse, il s'intéresse très tôt aux musiques européennes et étrangères.En 1932, il voyage en Inde où il recontre Rabîndranâth Tagore qui le nomme Watch the movie... |
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Sunday, 14 December 2008 - Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) est un philosophe allemand.En 1788, il suit des cours de la faculté de Thubingen et fait la connaissance d'Höderlin et de Schelling. Appelé à enseigner à Iéna, il publie plusieurs articles et commence à développer son système, expliqué dans "La phénoménologie de l'esprit". S Watch the movie... |
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