HISTORICAL THRILLER Kidnapped and sold as a slave by Vikings, Inga is bought by a strange chatelaine called “The Black Princess”. What is the secret of this solitary woman reigning as a master over a ruined manor where she takes in disabled children abandoned by their family? Inga feels that a mystery lies in the […]
PHILOSOPHY This book by Ilsetraut and Pierre Hadot is an introduction to the Handbook of Epictetus, a great stoic work from the 2nd century AD, and to the commentary of the Handbook written three centuries later by a Neoplatonician, Simplicius. A global approach to these works, their formal and doctrinal characteristics, and the study of […]
PHILOSOPHY The Handbook of Epictetus is a book compiled by Arrian (95-175) in which he sets out the doctrine of the stoic philosopher, Epictetus (50-127). Its leading principle is to attach importance only to things that depend on us. What really depends on us is the representation we have of things. By mastering them, we […]
PHILOSOPHY Followed by Levinas Between Philosophy and Jewish Thought It is as a disciple that Michaël de Saint-Cheron undertook to “converse with a Emmanuel Levinas in the evening of his life.” An ultimate conversation, full of twilight and hope, tenderness and admiration. It is about, as it often occurs with the writer of Totalité et […]
HISTORY Theater is probably the liveliest aspect of the Ancient Greek inheritance: the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes have been produced and played throughout the centuries with the freedom which only great texts allow. But what do we know about the theatrical practices of the Greeks? For what purpose […]
THEATER PLAYS – CLASSICS Goodnight Girls Inc. (Mademoiselle Bonsoir) followed by The Queen of the Bitches (La reine des garces) Discover these two musicals by the author of the classic novel L’ECUME DES JOURS, that had never had been played or published before their publication with LE LIVRE DE POCHE in 2009, for the 50th anniversary […]
ACCESSIBLE PHILOSOPHY A small philosophical study on travel and travelers. Going away, following close on shepherds’ heels, is testing out a kind of an extremely pagan pantheism and finding out the traces of ancient gods […]. The choice of the whole planet for one’s own journey is a condemnation of everything that closes and enslaves: […]
ACCESSIBLE PHILOSOPHY An introduction to the Nietzschean philosophy One century after the death of Nietzsche, we haven’t yet considered how his philosophy brought huge revolutions. Indeed, several kinds of “parasites” have hindered us: a sister who distorted his legacy, two wars, and an ideology which brandished his name in order to be useful for causes […]
PHILOSOPHY A Greek thought which considers the realization of pleasure as the main objective for wisdom In the field of ideas, the Greek invented everything. Among their forgotten inventions exists a hedonistic trend (for which the fulfillment of pleasure is the main aim of wisdom) that we call Cyrenaic because it developed at Cyrene, in […]
ESOTERISM – ENCYCLOPAEDIA An international approach: more than 620 entries and 40 authors This Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry aims to fill a gap: in spite of many books dealing with the Royal Art, no reference work was ever conceived for a general audience with a concern for general knowledge that would, once and for all, ―take […]