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Bérénice Levet: "We need to reunite with ourselves"

2020-05-07T19:21:09.145Z


LARGE MAINTENANCE - The health crisis is also a sociability crisis. This undermines our sense of conviviality and our art of living, analyzes the philosopher.


LE FIGARO. - France has been confined for almost two months and the deconfinement promises to be partial. Could it last longer?

Bérénice LEVET. - It was hardly desirable that the confinement last longer, a fortiori in the extreme forms that it took in France, dispossessing each of its responsibility. Like the Bear at La Fontaine, we would have gone mad: "Reason ordinarily, says the fabulist, does not live long in sequestered people" . Let’s also think of Baudelaire’s prose poem, Knock out the poor: it is at the end of "fifteen days of confinement" that, in "the confined intellect" of the narrator, this fatal project is formed. However, it is to be feared that very quickly we will be returned to our homes. Will there be enough masks and tests? And then, without seeking to exonerate our leaders, the challenge is formidable: we aspire to reconnect with social life; social life is precisely the breeding ground

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Source: lefigaro

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