Around the question

What do our smiles say?

Audio 48:30

Of smiles and men: a philosophical approach.

© Bayard

By: Caroline Lachowsky

What do our smiles say?

And why do they escape us?

How to philosophically and scientifically approach the smile, like an open window on our humanity?

(Rebroadcast from 06/12/2021).

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Smile!

You are human... At all ages, in all cultures, we know, we intimately feel the power of a smile: its beauty, its humanity touches our hearts.

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 of ​​looking into the meaning and scope of our smiles...

With the philosopher

, for her book

published by Éditions Bayard.

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