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Jean-Claude Carrière, Thibault Damour
Reflections on the Mass of the World
Physicists are now faced with the disturbing certainty that the reality of the world is multiple. We do not exist in a single story, with a middle and an ending. Instead, we live in a multitude of superimposed stories although we see only our own because our perception is limited by the narrow beam of light in which we exist.
Marc Crépon
The Desire to Resist A Critical Mind for Our Times
The struggle against all forms of authority, a critical mind, and the ability to think for ourselves, are the best weapons against those who want to convince us of our insignificance.
Agnès Desarthe, René Urtreger
King René
The life and destiny of an artist of genius. The talent of Agnes Desarthe brings a whole era back to life
Lisa Letessier
Lies Between a Couple
An analysis of the psychological mechanisms of lying in a couple seen from two points of view: those that animate the one who lies, and those that cause the one to whom one lies to suffer.
Gérald Tenenbaum
Math and Words
A little primer to make mathematics more accessible. The link between math and culture is rarely explicit; here is a very attractive one.
Laurent Schmitt
Secret The role of secrecy throughout human life
A reflection on the benefits of secrecy to the psyche that goes against the tide of transparency. Secrecy can be useful or even indispensable to our psychic survival. A contemporary and historical account of the role of secrecy in psychology.
Christian Zaczyk
Healing Trauma with Brainspotting
A novel psychotherapeutic technique from the United States, not based on talking, and which produces rather surprising results.
Serge Marti
Planet Earth : Six Challenges for 2050
A vast overview of the great socio-eco-economic problems of the planet. Clear and factual analyses, showing the interdependence of the issues.
Anouk Grinberg
The Actor, the Game, and the “I”
The activity of an actor viewed from the wings, told from the inside by one of the greatest French actresses.
Jean-Bernard Raimond
The Choice of Gorbachev
Who is Michel Gorbachev really? Is he communism's gravedigger or simply an apparatchik worried about postponing his disappearance from the political scene? Or is he one of history's free and tragic heroes, who found himself transported in spite of himself by the collapse of the world that had made him powerful? Jean Bernard Raimond is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and served as the Ambassador to France in Moscow.