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“Before, rest was the necessary condition for thinking; today, the vision of an unoccupied individual is unbearable”

2022-10-21T13:49:22.874Z


What is softness a sign of? What happiness can we expect? In her new book, La Force du mou, the philosopher Géraldine Mosna-Savoye explores all the paradoxes and pleads for a form of relaxation.


Columnist in

Les Matins de France Culture

, author of

Carnet de philo

(Éditions Michel Lafon, 2021), executive producer of

Chemins de la philosophie

, Géraldine Mosna-Savoye seems anything but a “soft knee”.

She has a flair for finding the subject that challenges us, encouraging us to look at it differently.

Even take a step back.

Producer on

France Culture

of the program

Without daring to ask

, she dissects with humor the new lexicon of our contemporary society.

From the pineal gland to Mario Kart, from autotune to intersexuality, passing through recklessness.

This time, in

La Force du mou

, it is to softness that she devotes an entire book.

To rehabilitate her.

Lady Figaro.

– Where does this sympathy for softness come from?


Geraldine Mosna.

I myself am a very soft person.

I like to do nothing, I often feel lazy.

When I wake up in the morning, it's hell.

However, I am dynamic and no one would describe me as soft.

How…

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