Abécédaire de la Beauté
In French. Hardcover, 248 pages, 24 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm. Editions B42, September 2022.
What happened to beauty? From the hidden charm of everyday life to the atypical aesthetic regime of scientific imagery, from its unprecedented ability to think about the living to its countless literary, philosophical, technical, historical and artistic applications, Beauty proves to be a particularly fertile intellectual ground.
This alphabet crosses the axes of reflection around a notion as trivialized as it is indescribable, but which, according to the forty-three contributions gathered here, remains at the center of our most current and most vivid concerns. Mixing a reflection on the expected terms (Greece, Style, Sublime, Venus) and others much more unusual (Garbage, Robot, Chaos, Octopus), beauty is present as a picture that structures our thoughts, but also as a crack, diffuse and underground, in the interstices of all our modalities of existence.
Justine Balibar, Florence Bancaud, Laure Barillas, Samuel Bianchini, José Bico, Philippe Bonnin, Rémi Carminati, Laura Cappelle, Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau, Olivier Chiquet, Claudine Cohen, Camille Couvry, Gisèle Dambuyant, Anne-Lise Darras-Worms, Antoine De Baecque, Elie During, Olivier Gaudin, Catherine Guesde, Armand Hatchuel, Thierry Hoquet, Milena Ivanova, Justin Jaricot, François Jouen, Déborah Laks, Baptiste Lanaspeze, Pascal Le Masson, Michael Lucken, Carole Maigné, Guitemie Maldonado, Elsa Marguin-Hamon, Guilhem Marion, François-René Martin, Rémi Mermet, Dominique Peysson, Jocelyne Porcher, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Julien Renoult, Étienne Reyssat, Patricia Ribault, Benoît Roman, Claudine Sagaert, Frédéric Worms, Clélia Zernik.
Under the direction of Clélia Zernik and Justin Jaricot.
Illustrations by Icinori.
