In his essay "A Radical Love, Belief and Identity", published by Oldile Jacob, Daniel Sibony offers a stimulating book. This review is part of a partnership with Études magazine.
Alain Feuvrier, Jesuit, holds a postgraduate degree in social psychology, analyzes Daniel Sibony's "Radical Love, Belief and Identity". This column is published in the magazine Études.
Arabian and psychoanalyst, Daniel Sibony has published many books, including A certain "living-together" . Muslims and Jews in the Arab world (Odile Jacob, 2016). A prologue evokes the conflict between "wanting to live in peace with others" and the need to "worship a Text that attacks others" .
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The first part, "Repérages", declines some aspects of this "radical love" . On the symbolic level, are the radicals not, in fact, a "formidable symbol of Islam, the West and their encounter" ?
To develop this point of view, the author enjoys a privileged position, having had access to both cultures and having lived in both.
A stimulating book
The second part is a series of articles already published that followed the "thread of events". Six "interludes" articulate the reflection on the theme of belief. It is a stimulating and easy to read book, which gives some useful keys to grasp this "interweaving between belief, love and revenge" that we see in so many young people "who want to make their sacred text live and live." illustrate as heroes of faith .
In passing, the author illuminates "the springs of belief and the unconscious media of the dispute between Islam and the West; difference whose momentum is measured in this strange duet between terrorism and love ".