Programme

Why do we know so well how to choose ourselves, yet so little how to love ourselves? We have never expected so much from love. And yet, it seems to have never been so difficult to love. For nearly twenty years, Florence Escaravage has supported single people and couples at the heart of their stories. Her talent is to reveal the contemporary beliefs that weaken our relationships: the search for perfect compatibility, the injunction to first be fully “fixed”, the cult of fluidity, or the fear of disagreement. What if loving was not about meeting someone who resembles us, but someone who shifts us? Through her field experience, Florence invites us to rediscover a living love: one born of vulnerability, that welcomes difference and transforms us. We seek a person who adapts perfectly to who we are, when love perhaps begins with the one who allows us to become more ourselves.

Philosopher and physicist What is time, once freed from the misleading expressions with which we try to grasp it? With Étienne Klein, physicist and philosopher of science, we confronted lived time with the time described by physics. From Saint Augustine to Bergson, from Newton to Einstein, he reveals the persistence of our ancient intuitions in the face of the upheavals of modern science. His singular talent: submitting words to the test of reality, making equations speak, and transforming a familiar notion into an intellectual vertigo. An encounter at the frontier of physics and philosophy, to try to think what makes all things possible, yet remains itself elusive.

What we imagine when we listen Valérie Thorin’s gift is to make music visible. She starts with pieces most of us have already heard, in a film, an opera, an advertisement or somewhere in our memory, to teach us to listen to them differently. From Bach to Mozart, from Wagner to John Williams, music tells without using words. It conjures landscapes, characters, memories and emotions. But do we all see the same thing when we hear a work? An encounter to travel across several centuries of music, recognise what we thought we knew, and discover everything that listening can make appear.

Philosopher

Philosopher

Philosopher

Sexologist

Physicist

Philosopher

Professor of Philosophy at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Philosopher and pastor

Philosopher

Philosopher