The Power of Joy
Fayard, October 2015
Essay
The Pocket Book, August 2017
Presentation
“Is there any experience more desirable than that of joy?
More intense and deeper than pleasure, more concrete than happiness, joy is the manifestation of our vital power. Joy cannot be decreed, but can we tame it? Provoke it? Cultivate it?
I would like to propose here a path to self-fulfillment based on the power of joy. A path of liberation and love, the antithesis of the artificial happiness proposed by our narcissistic and consumerist culture, but also different from the wisdoms that aim for ataraxia, that is, the absence of suffering and trouble.
For my part, I prefer a wisdom of joy, which takes on all the pains of existence. Which embraces them in order to better transfigure them. In the footsteps of Chuang Tzu, Jesus, Spinoza and Nietzsche, a wisdom founded on the power of desire and on a consent to life, to all of life...
…To find or rediscover perfect joy, which is none other than the joy of living.” FL
A hymn to joy blending philosophy, psychology, and secular spirituality. Dorothée Werner, Elle.
Fayard, October 2015 – 216 pages – EAN: 9782213661353
Le Livre de Poche, August 2017 – 256 pages – EAN: 9782253186083
Translations
Brazil: EDITORIAL OBJETIVA
Spain (Castilian language): PLATAFORMA
Italy: LA NAVE DI TESEO
Turkey: BILGE
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