What do our smiles say?

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Smiles and people: a philosophical approach.

© Bayard

By: Caroline Lachowsky

What do our smiles say?

And why do they escape us?

How can we philosophically and scientifically approach the smile, as an open window on our humanity? 

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Smile!

You are human ... At all ages, in all cultures, we know, we deeply feel the power of a smile: its beauty, its humanity touch us in the heart.

Omnipresent in art, as in our family photos or on the faces of spiritual masters, the smile is however little studied by thinkers, almost absent from philosophy.

Until our guest the philosopher Marie-Françoise Salès had the happy idea to look into the meaning and scope of our smiles ...

With the philosopher

 for her book

published by Éditions Bayard.

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