Camille Laurens in 2003: “All our humanity comes from this desire to meet the other, this living being”
Interview In this 2003 conversation, titled "What is love?" at the time, writer Camille Laurens and philosopher Jean-Luc Marion explore the mysteries of this intense feeling. Their shared perspectives inspire a profound and stimulating exchange on this universal emotion.
Author Camille Laurens at the 23rd Book Fair in March 2003 in Paris, and philosopher Jean-Luc Marion for the show "You will have the last word!" in Paris in January 2010. BALTEL/SIPA
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In 2003, she had just written "Love, a novel," and he published "The Erotic Phenomenon." The author and the philosopher questioned each other.
Jean-Luc Marion . If loving first means saying the words, baptizing an act with this word, then, by saying it, aren't we already doing it? Would it be enough to say it to do it?Camille Laurens Love needs words to exist. This does not mean, of course, that it must be talkative or…
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