In these times of great gloom, it is not in vain to wonder about what happiness is and to reread the founding texts and master thinkers on the subject.
But beware, this state of plenitude, individual or collective, should not be an injunction, and even less become tyrannical.
Catherine Golliau, who was editor-in-chief at Le
Point
, publishes
Les Maîtres du bonheur
with Éditions du Cerf, of which she now directs the collection “Who are you?
".
LE FIGARO. - Why this book?
Catherine GOLLAU. -
I started from an observation: we are all in search of happiness, and this since the first ages of humanity.
This quest is first of all a quest for meaning, faced with a life that is not always funny and which inevitably leads to death.
Religions are an attempt to respond to this search.
From Socrates, philosophy has made it a central theme.
But if this quest is eternal, today it has become a quasi-injunction, and some...
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