Charles Pépin

In this lecture, philosopher Charles Pépin, author of a novel on joy, sheds light on this powerful emotion and invites us to rediscover it as a force for resistance in a troubled world.

What if joy were less an ephemeral feeling than a powerful art of inhabiting reality? This is the idea defended by the philosopher in La joie (Allary Éditions), a novel that extends Camus' reflections in L'Étranger, illuminating them with a new breath. What if joy were crazier and stronger than happiness? What if it were the resource, the major force, all the more salutary when happiness is no longer possible? What would a philosophy of joy really be?