A former student of l'X, Olivier Rey taught mathematics at Polytechnique, and today teaches philosophy at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed essays and novels. Last published work: Leurre et malheur du transhumanisme (Desclée de Brouwer, 2018), Prix Jacques Ellul 2019.
The respiratory tract is not the only one seriously endangered by the spread of the coronavirus. The spirit is also affected: since the epidemic rages, biological survival has taken precedence over any other consideration, and all interest in what is not the coronavirus seems to have disappeared. It seems that, due to confinement, the time spent in front of the television or on news sites has never been so high, but everywhere, all the time, there is talk, obsessively, only of Covid-19 .
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