Sublime

Pourquoi quelque chose en nous se dérègle-t-il toujours ? Parfois, cette frénésie flambe, infecte le corps social et devient cosmique. Les Grecs antiques appelaient hubris cette démesure. L’hubris est l’irruption déchaînée de l’homme dans l’équilibre du monde, l’injure faite au cosmos. Par excès de lui-même, l’homme, perturbateur endocrinien de la

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Who and what is Ananke? First, she is extremely potent among the powers of the cosmos. Plato cites only two great cosmic forces: Reason (nous or mind) and Necessity (ananke).17 Reason accounts for what we can understand, for what follows reason’s laws and patterns. Necessity operates as a “variable”— sometimes translated as “erratic,” “errant,” or

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He went on to pretend that they were still friends, that he still genuinely felt grateful to Seneca, and that he did not realize how desperately Seneca wanted to be away from him. At the same time, he insisted that there was no possibility of going back on the arrangement. The first reason was that Seneca had given him such imperishable gifts that

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