Learn poetry, read the pavement that has been lying on the bedside table for months, get into philosophy: for some, confinement is also time found, used to "cultivate", to engage in work intellectual often rejected in everyday life, for lack of calm and silence. For some intellectuals, this particular period even constitutes a privileged moment. "I am overjoyed, I am fairly calm. I can finally work on my four current books, says for example the philosopher Luc Ferry. It goes much faster: when you work continuously, it is much more fruitful than when time is wasted by trips, conferences. ” But he remains lucid: “I understand that it is an intellectual privilege, I do not give lessons: when one is confined to five in 35 m2 in Seine-Saint-Denis, there is no time to 'write or read.'
To read also: Jean-Paul Kauffmann: "It is with the unknown part of the irrational that we must organize its confinement"
"Silence and loneliness scare many people who want to live in noise,
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