Polytechnician, Olivier Rey taught mathematics at X and is a researcher at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He teaches philosophy at Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Author of numerous critically acclaimed essays, such as "When the world became number" (Stock, coll. "Les Essais", 2016), "Lure and misfortune of transhumanism" (Desclée de Brouwer, 2018), which has obtained the Jacques-Ellul 2019 prize, “Glory and misery of the image after Jesus Christ” (Éditions Conférence, 2020) and “Repairing the water” (Stock, 2021), the intellectual also published, on the Covid , “The Idolatry of life” (Gallimard, coll. “Tracts”, 2020).
The ancients conceived of the world as essentially static (changes were little more than ripples on the surface of the sea), or as cyclical (modeled on astronomical cycles), or as going degrading (golden, silver, bronze, iron ages).
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